R12: Team #14 ~ 1-4 The Win ~

[Delitealex]

for favorite shelf favorite ability-perform magic

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Shelf #7 ~ 26 Aug: Urban Fantasy
by Ilona Andrews
Finished: 9/4/15
Rating: ★★★★★


I LOVED this book. I'll admit, I totally judged it by it's cover and hemmed and hawed about reading it. The MC, Rose, is a strong, independent woman, but not an annoying one that does what she wants when she wants just cause someone said she shouldn't do it. Life taught her a harsh lesson but it didn't turn her bitter. Her family, what's left of it, means everything to her and she does her best for them. Declan is the haughty Blueblood, but he's not the strong man that is damaged inside and only that special one can save him. He is capable, smart and thinks!

Rose lives in the Edge. The middle ground between the Broken (our world) and the Weird (kinda like our world but with magic and the like). A big sense of someone's power is how bright they flash. A weak flash is red. Most Edgers are about a green. Rose flashes white. Declan is from the Weird. He comes stumbling along to Rose's house with the intent to marry her. Just another Blueblood out to either sell her or breed her himself with the intent of having strong offspring. Being an Edger, a halfbreed, she can't really be accepted with the nobles of the Weird, so her life, for all intents and purposes, would be forfeit. Rose will not go willingly and Declan wont back down.

I CAN NOT wait to read the next book!

[Delitealex]

Shelf #7- Urban Fantasy

Title: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Date Read: September 7
Rating: 4 stars

Review
Lissa is a vampire princess and her best friend Rose is training to be her guardian. They have to deal with vampire politics and High School. I loved how strong Rose and Lissa's friendship was and what lengths they would each go to just to protect each other. They story was pretty fast paced and held my attention. I can't wait to continue on with this series.

[Rosina]

Shelf #5 ~ 12 Aug: Demons
8 users shelved it under Demons. I found it on the list but cant now.

by Jennifer Blackstream

Finished: September 8 2015
Rating: 4 stars

Review:
What a fun start to a series. This was a retelling of the fairy tale Cinderella. Quite while done interesting twists. The series is about a demon, vampire, werewolf, angel and a god. Each story will be a fairytale retelling. This one was about Prince Etienne - a werewolf and his search for a bride. Loupe is the step daughter of a terrible woman. The stepmother hunts and kills wolves. Loope has been bitten by one of the wolves who was still alive and every full moon she shifts. Prince Etienne is a from a family of born werewolves and is in search of a mate. Very well done.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

I found it. On Page 40.

Stamp Request sent for Shelf 5!

[Rosina]

Sunshine wrote: "I found it. On Page 40.

Stamp Request sent for Shelf 5!"

Thanks Sunshine. I think I stopped at page 39. :)

[[deleted user]]

Shelf #7: Urban Fantasy

Book: Maggie for Hire by Kate Danley
Date Finished: Sep 4
Rating: 3 stars
REVIEW:
I'm glad I finally read this book. It had been sitting in my TBR for so long!

One thing I really liked about this book is that it is pure Urban Fantasy. No PNR mix, which quit honestly, is rare to come by these days. It has a mix of supes, another favorite type of mine. I also enjoyed all the dimension-jumpings. Interesting concept.

However, I had two major issues with this book.
1. The hero. ( I am using this term loosely here.) The hero was nothing more than a prop. He did nothing on his own. The heroine Maggie says fight, he fights... She asks him to drive her to somewhere he does. She asks him to .... You get the picture. He is of course, the first one to get injured in a fight and he constantly needs super badass Maggie's help. Not. Impressed.

2. The plot. While I enjoyed the story as a whole, the plot felt vague and confusing at times.


Since this is the first book, I am Willing to make allowances. I hope the series gets better in the next books. I will definitely read the next book.

[[deleted user]]

My internet has been giving problems for almost 4 days now. So please bear with me if my reviews are quite garish to look at. I will edit them to add the book links once the internet gets better.( Which should be sometime tomorrow, hopefully)

[[deleted user]]

Shelf #8: Favorite

Book: Restless Spirits by Jordan L. Hawk
Date Finished: Sep 6
Rating: 5 stars
REVIEW:

I loved this book. Since this is Jordan Hawk's book, I went in expecting to fully enjoy it. And I did.

The whole Science Vs. Spiritualism and Man Vs. Machine concept was very interesting. Henry Strauss, along with his partner and cousin Jo has designed an Elextro-Seance machine that would detect and eradicate ghosts. But they are mocked in the psychic club and are not taken seriously. So when a letter arrives from a wealthy gentleman proposing a contest between them(science) and another duo who are mediums (spiritualism) to get rid of a ghost haunting the gentleman's valuable property, they are more than thrilled. Mediums are nothing but frauds in his opinion!

Vincent Night and Miss. Elizabeth Devereaux mediums extraordinaire , receive an incitation from a mysterious gentleman proposing a contest to get rid of ghosts. Vincent had been possessed by a vicious ghost which killed his mentor some month back. Since then he has been afraid to do his job. But since the reward offered was $500, a hefty sum, the duo agree to it.

Of course when all four arrive in the mansion, they find that not all is as it appears to be.
The discrimination against black people in those days is also beautifully portrayed in this book not impersonally in a society as a whole but very personally as faced by Henry's cousin Jo who is surprising to all, black skinned.

And of course, there is the best aspect of this book ghosts and spookiness. Jordan Hawk has a way with words that makes it difficult for us to stop reading the book.

I am convinced that Jordan Hawk is indeed the Queen of Paranormal Horror!

I can't wait for the next book in the series Dangerous Spirits to be released next week!

[Delitealex]

For the meow shelf I pick

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Shelf #9 ~ 9 Sept: Meow!
Read a book: featuring any form of feline shifter

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

I'm going to read

[Rosina]

Shelf #7 ~ 26 Aug: Urban Fantasy

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The Mind Readers by Lori Brighton

Finished September 10 2015
4 stars

Review:
I was pleasantly surprised with this book. A YA series about a girl named Cameron who has the ability to read minds. Her parents were killed and she lives with her Grandmother since she was 5. Her Grandmother has the ability as well and in order for people not to find them they are always on the move.
Cameron meets another kid her age at school whose mind she cant read and finds out that he too can read minds. Lewis persuades Cameron to leave her Grandmother and to come to a training facility where other kids who have the same abilities are being trained. Reminds me of a young bunch of XMen kids. There is an organization that is trying to locate the kids and the leader of the group Aaron is not being 100% truthful with them.
Good action not too over the top and of course the last few paragraphs left me hanging for the rest of the series.

[Rosina]

books for the shelves I am working on

Free Space

The Shadow Revolution

Favorite

Late Eclipses

Meow

Lion Eyes

[[deleted user]]

I am going to read for the Meow shelf.

One of MCs is a Jaguar shifter. Apart from this, there are several feline shifters in this book- Cheetah shifter, Lion shifter etc.

Edit: My internet is back! Yaay! I have added book links to my Urban Fantasy and Favorite reviews.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Shelf #8 ~ Favorite
by Kevin Hearne
Finished: 9/10/15
Rating: ★★★★

Atticus is trying to take off and stay hidden for the next decade or so so he can complete Granuaile's training in peace, but before he goes, he has to complete his favor owed to Coyote. Tricked is a perfect name for this book, because Coyote has one after another up his sleeve. Atticus isn't completely his happy-go-lucky self this time around, but there was still some laugh-out-loud moments. Seriously. I would laugh out loud and then have to read what was so funny to whoever was lucky enough to be sitting next to me. :)

[[deleted user]]

Hmm. I'm not quite in the mood for Rack & Ruin which I chose for this week. But the only other book that I have that would fit this shelf is Wild Cat, which I am not in the mood for too!

Not sure what to do:( Any good suggestions for this shelf?

[Rosina]

Free Space Read

by Clay Griffith
Finished September 13 2015
Rating: 4 stars

Review: A new author to me. Really enjoyed this story. Steampunk in Victorian England fighting werewolves. Enjoyed the characters and the pace of the story. There were interesting horror gore parts in the story that kept me wanting more. Have the rest of the books in the trilogy to read.

[Rosina]

Shelf #9 ~ 9 Sept: Meow!


September 14 2015
4 stars

Review: This was book 7.25 in the Shifters Unbound series by Jennifer Ahsley. I really connected with the characters and enjoyed it very much. Seamus is a lion shifter and is running from being captured by hunters. Bree is a shifter groupie recently moved to Austin texas. They meet when he jumps in her pick up and has her take him away from a murder. She believes he didn't commit the murders and takes him to her home. More shifters come and find them and then take them to a Shiftertown where they have to decide if they will stay or will they go.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Hey Team! New shelf today! Woo-Hoo! How's everyone's books going?
Preethi, were you able to find something interesting to read?

I'm still plugging away on my Dark & Stormy book. We've just had the last of our wood delivered so I have TONS of stacking to do. Which sucks, but since my D&S book is an audio book, I've just set my kindle up and listen while I work. :)

[Rosina]

I am working on finishing about 35% done. Managed to get this challenge and another Bingo challenge up to date. Feels good.

I love new shelf day.

What shelf is everyone wishing for?
Same but different would get us one postage stamp
free4me gets us a straight line
new2you author, readers choice, free4me gets us another space on a postage stamp

So free4me is a good one and I have one selected for that as well.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Readers Choice would be great cause I could read the one I want to read next. LOL. It doesn't fit anything else we have left. :(

With all the shelves called so far, we have 5 chips on the Cross bingo and 5 on the Backward slash-Barbell looking bingo. :)

I have tons of free4me books too.

[[deleted user]]

Shelf #9: Meow!

Book: Rack & Ruin by Charlie Cochet
Date Finished: Sep 16
Rating: 4 stars
REVIEW:
Several significant things happen in this book. Dex and Sloane's relationship is finally heading somewhere. Dex lets it slip accidentally slip that he loves Sloane; and of course, Sloane bolts. And then he comes back. Ash and Cael's, Calvin and Hobbs's relationship also undergo changes too. Destructive Delta team members are each facing some sort of personal challenges. The Coalition is escalating their attacks, and THIRDS is no closer to apprehending them than they are to finding more about the Order. Most worrying of all, they have to find who the mole in their organization is, and fast, before all is lost.

As with other Charlie Cochet's books, this book too was a roller-coaster of emotions. This is one series where I definitely will not read the next book in the series immediately after this one- reading this book has left me drained emotionally!

I loved how the intimidated Angel Reyes- showing off their collective shifter strength! That was an awesome scene. And Ash! I will say no more other than 'I knew it!'.

I will read the next book in the series - Rise & Fall pretty soon!

[[deleted user]]

Sunshine wrote: "Preethi, were you able to find something interesting to read?"

I managed to finish the book I chose. Emotionally draining to read, let me tell you!

[[deleted user]]

Rosina wrote: "Free Space Read

by Clay Griffith
Finished September 13 2015
Rating: 4 stars

Review: A new author to me. Really enjoyed this story. Ste..."

Glad you enjoyed this Rosina. I have this book in my TBR.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

I really want to read that series too. I read their Vampire Empire series and loved it

[Rosina]

Sunshine wrote: "I really want to read that series too. I read their Vampire Empire series and loved it"

I really enjoyed it and I have Greyfriar on hold at the library...Was a world I could slip right in to....

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Have to admit, I read the first one and wasn't a fan but some time later figured I'd give it another go and was wondering why I didn't like it in the first place. LOL

[Rosina]

Sunshine wrote: "Have to admit, I read the first one and wasn't a fan but some time later figured I'd give it another go and was wondering why I didn't like it in the first place. LOL"

sometimes that happens with books...just not in the mood but then later on its awesome...weird

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Shelf #10 ~ 16 Sept: Paranormal Romance

[Rosina]

Sunshine wrote: "Shelf #10 ~ 16 Sept: Paranormal Romance "

I ll read Bearly Ever
Shelved 25 times....im on a shifter alpha male kick

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, 1-4 the Win!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'demons', 'UF' and 'free space'. 

[Your updated BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]

Good Job!! :D

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Congrats on the stamps 1 4 the Win!

[[deleted user]]

Thanks Steph and Sandra:)

I have a LOT of options for this shelf!

Trying to decide between

All of these look tempting! Hmmm. Choices... Choices...

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

I will read

[Rosina]

preethi the only one I've read is the Tanya huff book. I enjoyed it.

are you still in US?

[Rosina]

sunshine I'm thinking of binge reading that series this fall. do you like it? seems I'm the only one not having started it.
I see she is doing a spin off series of BDB. comes out in Dec I think.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

I do! For me, I love how this series does great at also focusing on happenings going on outside of just the main couple. It sucks you in on needing to read the next book.

It also cracks me up how simple the names are. The bad guys are a letter in the alphabet (Mr. O) and the heroes are a tough word with an "h" thrown in. (Rhage) :-D

[Rosina]

I saw an interview with Kelly Clarkson and on her bookshelf was the BDB books. every year I keep meaning to start it. decided that this fall will be the time. I think I have all but the last two.

[Delitealex]

I'm stll reading and will be finished soon. I don't know what I'm gonna pick for the paranormal romance shelf yet.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Shelf #6 ~ 19 Aug: Dark & Stormy
by Stephen King
Finished: 9/18/15
Rating: ★★★★

This was interesting. Really need to pay attention with all the different worlds/time periods/players/personalities. I love Roland & Eddie together. They both push each other but have a strong bond growing. Verdict is still out on Detta/Odetta/Susannah, (whoever the hell she is!) I don't know much about this Dark Tower still but it's going to be interesting getting there!

[Delitealex]

I'm reading for the paranormal romance shelf

[[deleted user]]

@Rosina: No. I returned to India just a few days ago. Still feeling jet-lagged!

[[deleted user]]

I decided to go with something completely different from the five listed above. I'm reading for Paranormal Romance shelf.

[Delitealex]

Shelf #8: Favorite
by Jaye Wells
Date Read: September 24
Rating: 4 Stars

Review
Kate Prospero is a cop trying to overcome her past. A new drug is on the streets so she's trying to find out who made it. The world in this story is gritty and very dark. I liked Kate and the way magic is presented. I can't wait to read the next in the series.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

Shelf #11 ~ 23 Sept: Cover Love
Read a book: that features cover art you love

[Rosina]

Shelf #8 ~ 2 Sept: Favorite


Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire
Finished September 24 2015
Rating 4 stars

REview: I love this series. I like how there is a parallel world where it is so fantastical. This episode has some murders and Toby finds out some interesting facts about her heritage. Really enjoying how the secondary characters are fleshing out and cant wait to read the next installment.

[Rosina]

Shelf #11 ~ 23 Sept: Cover Love

I will read

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

So, as of Monday, we are in the top 5 teams that have the most potential stamps towards a bingo. :)


These teams have 6 called in a winning pattern, but not all stamped yet.
(first number is stamped, second number is called!)

Team 5: 6 of 9 (all stamped)
Team 9: 5(6) of 9
Team 12: 5(6) of 9
Team 13: 4(6) of 9
Team 14: 4(6) of 9

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

For Cover Love I will read