August 2014 Random Read Group Read Nominations

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

August is random read month for the group read All members are welcome to participate in our group read nomination process, and you can nominate one book of any subgenre of action/adventure. It's your choice!

Considerations:

1. All nominations must be added using the 'add book/author' function above the text box (where you post comments or replies) with an official link to the book on Goodreads. If the book is not nominated with a Goodreads link, it will not be added to the poll.

2. Books from past group reads are not eligible for renomination. You can find a list of past reads here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

3. Books should be readily available, in other words, can be bought new in print or in the ebook format.

4. Books must either be the first in an ongoing series or able to be read as a standalone despite being part of a series.

The poll will go up on June 28th.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

No nominations?

Reminder, the poll is supposed to go up tomorrow.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

I'll nominate Dark Descendant by Jenna Black. A friend of mine strongly recommended it.

Synopsis:


Nikki Glass can track down any man. But when her latest client turns out to be a true descendant of Hades, Nikki now discovers she can’t die. . . .

Crazy as it sounds, Nikki’s manhunting skills are literally god-given. She’s a living, breathing descendant of Artemis who has stepped right into a trap set by the children of the gods. Nikki’s new “friends” include a descendant of Eros, who uses sex as a weapon; a descendant of Loki, whose tricks are no laughing matter; and a half-mad descendant of Kali who thinks she’s a spy.

But most powerful of all are the Olympians, a rival clan of immortals seeking to destroy all Descendants who refuse to bow down to them. In the eternal battle of good god/bad god, Nikki would make a divine weapon. But if they think she’ll surrender without a fight, the gods must be crazy. . .

[Tim The Enchanter]

I will nominate Rubbernecker. I read this book recently. I think it is the best book I have read this year. It is told in a very unique voice and highly entertaining and highly recommended.

My Plot Summary

Our main character and unlikely detective, Patrick, is a college anatomy student and lives with Asperger's syndrome while his mother suffers the fallout of the disorder. Since the death of his father, Patrick has longed to know what happens to a person when they die and where it is that person goes. He believes that the answer lies inside of the dead human body so naturally, dissecting a human body as part of college study will provide the answer. As the semester progresses, Patrick becomes obsessed with the cause of death of the Cadaver and mystery is born. In a parallel storyline, we view the world through the eyes of a coma patient and we learn of startling behaviour in the coma ward. Unfortunately, he lacks the ability to express his observations. Eventually the storylines converge and secrets are uncovered both in Patrick's "investigation" and in his own home.

The story is an adventure of an unlikely sort.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

That sounds good, Tim!

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

I changed my nomination to SecondWorld by Jeremy Robinson

The high adventure of James Rollins meets the gripping suspense of Matthew Reilly in Jeremy Robinson's explosive new thriller, SecondWorld.

Lincoln Miller, an ex-Navy SEAL turned NCIS Special Agent is sent to Aquarius, the world’s only sub-oceanic research facility located off the Florida Keys, to investigate reports of ocean dumping. A week into his stay, strange red flakes descend from the surface. Scores of fish are dead and dying, poisoned by the debris that turns to powder in Miller’s fingers and tastes like blood.

Miller heads for the surface, ready to fight whoever is polluting on his watch. But he finds nothing. No ships. No polluters. No oxygen. Instead, he finds a cloudless sky full of red particles dropping like snow and coating the ocean with a thick film that stretches to the horizon. When a dead blue whale collides with Aquarius, Miller begins a harrowing race to escape the affected area. Cut off from the rest of the world and surrounded by death, Miller makes his way to Miami where he discovers just one survivor, and the awful truth: the strange phenomenon that robbed the air of its life giving oxygen was an attack by an enemy reborn from the ashes of World War II. And they’re just getting started. Miami, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo have all been destroyed. Millions are dead.

And if Miller can’t track down and stop those responsible in seven days, the rest of the world is next.

[Tad]

I'll nominate Pines by Blake Crouch. It's the first book in the Wayward Pines trilogy and the 3rd book is coming out next month, so if you like it, you won't have to wait too long to read the whole series.

I finished the whole trilogy in a couple weeks. Great, fast read with plenty of action and some twists you won't see coming. It's being made into a TV series on Fox.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Thanks for the nominations!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Hey, the poll is up. It closes on July 4th, aka Independence Day!

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

SecondWorld by Jeremy Robinson won the poll. See you on August 1st for the discussion.