Urban Fantasy Event: The Alpha & Omega Reading Challenge

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Burn Bright: New Release coming March 6, 2018

Since the mods have declared March to be Urban Fantasy month work your way through these levels of play to see if you are an Urban Fantasy Fanatic

Duration:
This challenge is open-ended

Levels of Play:
Werewolf=5-10 books
Dominant=11-20 books
Submissive=21-30 books
Alpha= 31-40 books
Omega=41+ books

#1. Read:
Read the Alpha & Omega Series by Patricia Briggs and let us know what you think on the corresponding buddy read threads.

#2. Spell -It-Out
Using the usual spell-it-out rules(*) spell the Alpha & Omega Titles
(You may also use titles from the Mercy Thompson series)

#3. Collect:
Read books that have the Words in the title

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ALPHA
BLOOD
BONE
BORNE
BOUND
BRIGHT
BROKEN
BURN
BURNED
CALLED
CROSSED
CRY
DEAD
FAIR
FALLEN
FIRE
FROST
GAME
GROUND
HEAT
HUNTING
IRON
KISSED
MARKED
MOON
NIGHT
OMEGA
RIVER
SILENCE
SILVER
TOUCHED
WOLF (hide spoiler)]

Example:
Alpha
River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

#4. Cast
Read books with characters named after any of Patricia Briggs' characters


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Alan
Amethyst
Angus
Anna
Arthur
Asil
Beauclaire
Benedict
Bran
Charles
Chastel
Chelsea
Dana
Goldstein
Hally
Heuter
Hosteen
Issac
Joseph
Kage
Leah
Leeds
Leslie
Lizzie
Mackie
Maggie
Malcom
Mariposa
Marsden
Max
Michael
Michel
Moira
Ric
Sage
Samuel
Singh
Sunny
Tom
Travis
Walter
(hide spoiler)]

Example
Anna Karenina: Anna
Goodbye Piccadilly:Charles

#5. Search and Spell -It -Out
Find the character names in these Word Search Puzzles then using the usual spell -it- out rules(*) spell out the character names

🐺Cry Wolf
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https://wordsearchlabs.com/view/63052

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🐺Dead Heat
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https://wordsearchlabs.com/view/63156

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🐺Fair Game
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https://wordsearchlabs.com/view/63154

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🐺Hunting Ground
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https://wordsearchlabs.com/view/63152

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#6. Find tasks
Reading tasks have been created from scenes and events in the books. Follow along and read any or all of the tasks below:
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Cry Wolf
🐺Read a book where the character moves or flies on a airplane
🐺Read a book where they attend a funeral
🐺Read a book that has a setting in the English Moors
🐺Read a book with snow on the cover
🐺Read a book where the MC meets their significant others family
🐺Read a book where the MC dispenses justice
🐺Read a book where the MC is a mediator of sorts
🐺Read a book where they go camping
🐺Read a book with a berserker character
🐺Read a book with a dark witch
🐺Read Beowulf or read a book that quotes Beowulf
🐺Read a book where the characters get married

Hunting Ground
🐺Read a book set in Seattle or where they visit Seattle
🐺Read a book that has a character who paints
🐺Read a book that has a character who plays piano
🐺Read a book where they eat BBQ
🐺Read a book that mentions Excalibur
🐺Read a book where they go on a treasure hunt
🐺Read a book with vampires
🐺Read a book where a character’s significant other dies/is murdered
🐺Read a book that mentions the Wild Hunt
🐺Read a book that mentions the Lady of the Lake
🐺Read a book with a sword fight

Fair Game
🐺Read a book with a character who plays a string instrument or there is a musical instrument on the cover
🐺Read a book with a character who gardens or that has a rose(s) on the cover
🐺Read a book that mentions Ivanhoe
🐺Read a book set in Boston or where the characters visit Boston
🐺Read a book with a serial killer
🐺Read a book with a character who is an FBI agent
🐺Read a book where a character walks their dog
🐺Read a book with a boat on the cover
🐺Read a book set on an island
🐺Read a book with ghosts
🐺Read a book with a stag on the cover
🐺Read a book with a legal hearing held in a courtroom

Dead Heat
🐺Read a book with someone in prison
🐺Read a book where the characters are trying to/want to have children
🐺Read a book set in Arizona or where they visit Arizona
🐺Read a book where there are young children
🐺Read a book where a character is a teacher
🐺Read a book with horses
🐺Read a book where a character is changed into a werewolf or something supernatural
🐺Read a book where someone is cursed
🐺Read a book where a character knits
🐺Read a book where a character is dying from a disease
🐺Read a book about old friends
🐺Read a book where the characters solve a crime
(hide spoiler)]

(*)Spell-it-Out Rules
Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audiobook narrators first or last name.
If you are reading a translated version, you can also use the first letter of the translator's first or last name.

As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.

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Participants

Barbara ★

Chie

Deanna

Gabi

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Welcome Chie!!

[Barbara ★]

I've read the first 4 and am looking forward to continuing the series.

The Alpha & Omega Challenge
Start Date: February 1, 2018

Levels of Play:
Alpha= 31-40 books
Omega=41+ books

#3. Collect:
BLOOD - Blood on Silk - Marie Treanor (Feb)
BONE - Bone Magic - Yasmine Galenorn (March)
BORNE - Battle Born - Sherrilyn Kenyon (2018)
BOUND - Snowbound - Larissa Ione (2018)
BURN - Burn Bright - Patricia Briggs (May)
DEAD - Dead Level - Sarah Graves (Feb)
FAIR - Foul Play at the Fair - Shelley Freydont (2018)
FIRE - Fight Fire with Fire - Amy Fetzer (2018)
GAME - Blindfold Game - Dana Stabenow
HEAT - Rattling the Heat in Deadwood - Ann Charles (2018)
MOON - Haunted Moon - Yasmine Galenorn (April)
NIGHT - Midnight's Promise - Donna Grant (Feb)
SILENCE - Lake Silence - Anne Bishop (April)
WOLF - The Wolf's Bounty - K.T. Harding (2018)

#6. Find tasks

Cry Wolf
(view spoiler)[
🐺Read a book where the character moves or flies on a airplane
🐺Read a book where they attend a funeral
🐺Read a book that has a setting in the English Moors
🐺Read a book with snow on the cover
🐺Read a book where the MC meets their significant others family
🐺Read a book where the MC dispenses justice
🐺Read a book where the MC is a mediator of sorts
🐺Read a book where they go camping
🐺Read a book with a berserker character
🐺Read a book with a dark witch
🐺Read Beowulf or read a book that quotes Beowulf
🐺Read a book where the characters get married
(hide spoiler)]

Hunting Ground
(view spoiler)[
🐺Read a book set in Seattle or where they visit Seattle
🐺Read a book that has a character who paints
🐺Read a book that has a character who plays piano
🐺Read a book where they eat BBQ
🐺Read a book that mentions Excalibur
🐺Read a book where they go on a treasure hunt
🐺Read a book with vampires
🐺Read a book where a character’s significant other dies/is murdered
🐺Read a book that mentions the Wild Hunt
🐺Read a book that mentions the Lady of the Lake
🐺Read a book with a sword fight
(hide spoiler)]

Fair Game
(view spoiler)[
🐺Read a book with a character who plays a string instrument or there is a musical instrument on the cover
🐺Read a book with a character who gardens or that has a rose(s) on the cover
🐺Read a book that mentions Ivanhoe
🐺Read a book set in Boston or where the characters visit Boston
🐺Read a book with a serial killer
🐺Read a book with a character who is an FBI agent
🐺Read a book where a character walks their dog
🐺Read a book with a boat on the cover
🐺Read a book set on an island
🐺Read a book with ghosts
🐺Read a book with a stag on the cover
🐺Read a book with a legal hearing held in a courtroom
(hide spoiler)]

Dead Heat
(view spoiler)[
🐺Read a book with someone in prison
🐺Read a book where the characters are trying to/want to have children
🐺Read a book set in Arizona or where they visit Arizona
🐺Read a book where there are young children
🐺Read a book where a character is a teacher
🐺Read a book with horses
🐺Read a book where a character is changed into a werewolf or something supernatural
🐺Read a book where someone is cursed
🐺Read a book where a character knits
🐺Read a book where a character is dying from a disease
🐺Read a book about old friends
🐺Read a book where the characters solve a crime
(hide spoiler)]

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge Barbara!

Your challenge post is linked HERE

[Deanna]

Challenge Complete
The Alpha and Omega Challenge
Duration: 2/6/2018 -
Option 2; Level Omega
Books Completed: 46/46

C - Cat Cross the Grave by Murphy (2/6)
R - Rumble on the Bayou by Deleon (2/6)
Y - Ysabel in Mort by Pratchett (2/24)

W - Wild Born by Mull (2/14)
O - Olson's Wake Me When the Sun Goes Down (2/22)
L - Lab Girl by Jahren (2/9)
F - The First Annual Grand Rabbit Festival by Wheaton (2/7)

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H - Hex Hall by Hawkins (2/8)
U - An Uninvited Ghost by Copperman (2/24)
N - Nelson's Free Agent (2/9)
T - A Touch of Midnight by Adrian (2/15)
I - Ida Belle in Later Gator by Deleon (2/16)
N - Narel, Cocoa in Sweet Revenge by Best (2/11)
G - Godwin in Knitting Bones by Ferris (2/11)

G - Graves' Mallets Aforethought (2/20)
R - Rivers, Perdita in Verity by Farrell (2/8)
O - Obsidian, Malachi in Bloodwitch by Atwater-Rhodes (2/25)
U - Under Cover of Daylight by Hall (3/9)
N - Northrop's Book of the Dead (2/12)
D - DuPrau's Car Trouble (2/8)

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F - The Fire Within by d'Lacey (2/7)
A - Agatha in A Spoonful of Poison by Beaton (2/11)
I - Ian in Storm of Lightning by Evans (3/1)
R - Robert Parker's Promised Land (2/15)

G - Grose, Brian in Masoleum by Acott (2/23)
A - Artemis Fowl by Colfer (2/11)
M - Murder Makes Waves by George (2/8)
E - Evanovich's Four to Score (2/15)

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D - Death of a Cad by Beaton (2/13)
E - English Tea Murder by Meier (2/21)
A - Alosa in Daughter of the Pirate King by Levenseller (2/17)
D - Death of a Prankster by Beaton (2/16)

H - Harrer's Seven Years in Tibet (2/12)
E - Evanovich's High Five (2/23)
A - Anderson, Jimmy in Death of an Outsider by Beaton (2/19)
T - Third Grave Dead Ahead by Jones (2/19)

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B - Beaton's Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (2/7)
U - Unlikely Dad by Voeller (3/11)
R - Raisin, Agatha in Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body by Beaton (2/25)
N - Northrop's Valley of Kings (2/12)

B - Beaton's Death of a Macho Man (2/17)
R - Robert in Friday Night Bites by Neill (2/25)
I - Isaac in Fair Game by Briggs (3/4)
G - Goodman, Bob in Birthday Party Murder by Meier (2/24)
H - Harris' Living Dead in Dallas (2/13)
T - Twisted: The Girl Who Uncovered Rumplestilskin's Name by Hennessy (2/20)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge; Deanna!

Your challenge post is linked HERE

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Gabi!

Challenge posts are linked above

[Deanna]

Challenge complete!

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

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Congratulations Deanna!

[aikaterine]

I love Patricia Brigg's books, so, guess what... I'm in!!! :D

Start date: May 15, 2021
Current level: Dominant
Books read: 12

Levels of Play:
✔ Werewolf = 5-10 books
Dominant = 11-20 books
Submissive = 21-30 books
Alpha = 31-40 books
Omega = 41+ books

#3. Collect
BLOOD - House of Earth and Blood
FIRE - With the Fire on High

#6. Find tasks
Cry Wolf
🐺Read a book where the character moves or flies on a airplane - The Eyre Affair
🐺Read a book where they attend a funeral
🐺Read a book that has a setting in the English Moors
🐺Read a book with snow on the cover
🐺Read a book where the MC meets their significant others family
🐺Read a book where the MC dispenses justice
🐺Read a book where the MC is a mediator of sorts
🐺Read a book where they go camping
🐺Read a book with a berserker character
🐺Read a book with a dark witch - Heir of Fire
🐺Read Beowulf or read a book that quotes Beowulf
🐺Read a book where the characters get married

Hunting Ground
🐺Read a book set in Seattle or where they visit Seattle
🐺Read a book that has a character who paints
🐺Read a book that has a character who plays piano
🐺Read a book where they eat BBQ
🐺Read a book that mentions Excalibur
🐺Read a book where they go on a treasure hunt
🐺Read a book with vampires
🐺Read a book where a character’s significant other dies/is murdered
🐺Read a book that mentions the Wild Hunt
🐺Read a book that mentions the Lady of the Lake
🐺Read a book with a sword fight - Crown of Midnight

Fair Game
🐺Read a book with a character who plays a string instrument or there is a musical instrument on the cover
🐺Read a book with a character who gardens or that has a rose(s) on the cover - The Empire of Gold
🐺Read a book that mentions Ivanhoe
🐺Read a book set in Boston or where the characters visit Boston
🐺Read a book with a serial killer
🐺Read a book with a character who is an FBI agent
🐺Read a book where a character walks their dog
🐺Read a book with a boat on the cover - Seafire
🐺Read a book set on an island - Seven Deadly Shadows
🐺Read a book with ghosts - Black Water Sister
🐺Read a book with a stag on the cover
🐺Read a book with a legal hearing held in a courtroom - Good Girl, Bad Blood

Dead Heat
🐺Read a book with someone in prison
🐺Read a book where the characters are trying to/want to have children
🐺Read a book set in Arizona or where they visit Arizona
🐺Read a book where there are young children
🐺Read a book where a character is a teacher - The Battle of the Labyrinth
🐺Read a book with horses
🐺Read a book where a character is changed into a werewolf or something supernatural
🐺Read a book where someone is cursed
🐺Read a book where a character knits
🐺Read a book where a character is dying from a disease
🐺Read a book about old friends - People We Meet on Vacation
🐺Read a book where the characters solve a crime