R16: Team #9 ~ Dressed to the Nines

[Marisa]

Good to know! A little nudge up :D

[Natalie]

Sandra wrote: "Natalie, it only started last round, so you can check out how to do it on those posts.

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

So you link your post on Stamp Request..."

Do I have to wait for a verified check in the captain's log before posting for a stamp?

[Natalie]

Marisa wrote: "A warning from myself: My selected book usually isn't the book I read in the end 😔, so captain, please, don't whip me much 😉"

I make no promises ;)

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Natalie wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Natalie, it only started last round, so you can check out how to do it on those posts.

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

So you link your post o..."

No Natalie, you do it at the same time, or more correctly one after the other. The Captain's Log first, then the stamp request.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Natalie wrote: "Marisa wrote: "A warning from myself: My selected book usually isn't the book I read in the end 😔, so captain, please, don't whip me much 😉"

I make no promises ;) "


And Natalie, how did you get Judithe's whip? I thought I had it locked up!!!!!

[Natalie]

Sandra wrote: "And Natalie, how did you get Judithe's whip? I thought I had it locked up!!!!! "

“Borrowed” it from another group. Hopefully they won’t notice it’s missing…

Also I will be reading Feversong for my free space.

[Laura]

Sadly, our whip has been missing since Teresa left. But now that I know who has it, I know where to start recruiting! :)

[Marisa]

BTW, I think I haven't introduced myself. My name is María Luisa (Marisa for short) and I live in Madrid (Spain), so a very different hour from you all, so the shelf call I'll usually see it oh Thursday morning.

I've read much more PNR than I do know, and this is a way to be back to it. I hope to enjoy the book as much as the first (and only) time.

Glad to know you all.

[Laura]

Sandra wrote: "I'm thinking I'll read for Futuristic Romance & probably for Free Space."

Have you read Lake Silence yet? I just finished. I loved it! I expected to be disappointed because it isn't Meg & Simon, but it was soooooo good. I laughed so much! :)

[Laura]

Marisa wrote: "BTW, I think I haven't introduced myself. My name is María Luisa (Marisa for short) and I live in Madrid (Spain), so a very different hour from you all, so the shelf call I'll usually see it oh Thu..."

Hi, Marisa! I guess we forgot introductions. I'm Laura. I'm a stay-at-home mom with 6 daughters, whom I homeschool. So life gets crazy sometimes!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Nope, dl it to my kindle and that's as far as I've gotten.

And yay!!!! glad its as good as the other books. I loved that first chapter AB released, which is why I bought the kindle edition & didn't wait for the paperback.

[Laura]

Completion Post

Category: Free Space
Book: Lake Silence
How it works: (I'm fairly certain The Others series is on at least one of the lists, but I didn't actually check; since Sandra picked it I made assumptions!)
Date Read: 3/8
Rating: 5 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review:
I laughed. I nearly cried. I loved it. I didn't think I could love it as much as I loved Written in Red, but I did. Vickie reminded me a lot of Meg in the early days. While she isn't quite as clueless about the natures of the terra indigene, but she treats them with common curtesy, much like Meg does. And so we have another human that interests many of the Others. And one that interests me. I'm a bit sad that the next book (yes, I'm already thinking about that!) won't be about Vickie.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

It's probably on the list, but I know its on the SOS Bookshelf :)

I know cause I added it on the 5th :D

[Laura]

Sandra wrote: "It's probably on the list, but I know its on the SOS Bookshelf :)

I know cause I added it on the 5th :D"

Lol :)

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Laura, I'm loving Lake Silence!!!!!

[Natalie]

Hi! I'm Natalie. I live just north of Boston so on EST time. I'm married with no kids, but two adorable kittens cats. The main reason I don't usually post in the evenings is because this happens:



They've been especially needy since I got back from vacation. One is meowing outside my office door at the moment.

This is my sixth round of SOS bingo I believe? I still haven't won. It was my first team challenge on GR and I always join if I see the signups. I was actually going to have a GR challenge free month for March. That is not happening anymore.

[Moondance]

Natalie wrote: "Hi! I'm Natalie. I live just north of Boston so on EST time. I'm married with no kids, but two adorable kittens cats. The main reason I don't usually post in the evenings is because this happens:

..."

Lurking, Natalie! I love your furbaby! I have a couple of black and white boys that insist on being on my lap, too. Along with a few others...

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

So cute! I grew up having kitties but sadly I live in an area with lots of wildlife & birds, from wrens to parrots.

[Laura]

I have 6 kitties, to go with my 6 kids. We did keep a bird feeder filled, but stopped when it became apparent that it would also serve as a cat feeder. :)

[Natalie]

Laura wrote: "I have 6 kitties, to go with my 6 kids. We did keep a bird feeder filled, but stopped when it became apparent that it would also serve as a cat feeder. :)"

We're trying to not have more cats than people. It's a struggle sometimes.

[Marisa]

well, no cat here... yet.

[Marisa]

And Natalie, I love your cat, it looks so charming...

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yes, its a great photo. That cat is a knowing one for sure .......

[Laura]

Natalie wrote: "Hi! I'm Natalie. I live just north of Boston so on EST time. I'm married with no kids, but two adorable kittens cats. The main reason I don't usually post in the evenings is because this happens:

..."

He's adorable, Natalie! I've got one black & white one that we call Patches.

[Moondance]

Natalie wrote: "Laura wrote: "I have 6 kitties, to go with my 6 kids. We did keep a bird feeder filled, but stopped when it became apparent that it would also serve as a cat feeder. :)"

We're trying to not have m..."

I'm afraid to tell you how many cats I have. They greatly outnumber the people in the household.

[Marisa]

Free Space
Book: Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs
Pages: 336
Option: 3 (A book of the group's bookshelf)
Read: 10/03/2018
Rating: ★★★★☆



Review

This book has remembered me why I prefer Alpha & Omega to Mercy. I love the relationship between Charles and Anna, it remembers me a lot to Eve and Roarke. Not only in the relationship but the different characters, how they are growing in you (Asil) or not (Leah). The world is coherent and with new additions in every installment. Sad moments, as usual, but a book I thoroughly enjoy.

Pity that I'm almost sure we have to wait for two years till the next one (as minimum).

[Laura]

I think more than 2 years. :(

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

I HATE the covers for the UK/Aussie market for PB books, so I tend to wait & buy the US paperbacks - which means about a 12 mth wait from when they release the Hardcover/Kindle editions. I only got Silence Fallen beginning of February, so it'll be a long wait for me again. :(

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

I guess I should do the intro thingie. LOL.

Born & raised in Sydney Australia, married 32 yrs the other day, no kids, but lots of nieces & nephews & even 6 great nieces & nephews at this point, no pets but live on 5 acres which are gradually becoming wild gardens, mostly natives, so lots of native wildlife. Hubby retired just before Christmas so reading time is sometimes a little short.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Shelf: Free Space
Date: 11/3/18
Rating: ★★★★

In this 6th book of The Others, we leave Simon & Meg at the Lakeside Courtyard and travel to the wild country of Finger Lakes and the small human populated, Other controlled town of Sproing.

Vicki DeVine, as part of her divorce settlement received The Jumble, a mix of outbuildings, cabins & a main house with its own sandy beach & dock on the pristine Lake Silence. They all needed major work but would make a decent living once spruced up & repaired. She read the documents attached to the property, realised that she only held the buildings & was only allowed use of a small proportion of the land, so she was extremely careful about what her contractors could & couldn't do. Vicki has been verbally abused by the ex and is pretty fragile and prone to panic attacks. She is unfailingly polite to everyone, and finally figures out that her lone lodger, Aggie Crow, is an Other when she discovers Aggie about to eat an eyeball in her kitchen.

When Aggie tells Vicki she got the eyeball from a dead body, Vicki sets in motion a deadly intrigue by calling the cops and then the Tie Clippers come to town. Greedy entrepreneurs who are used to shifty deals think they can create a resort at a most desirable location but none of them have read the paperwork.

Luckily, Officer Grimshaw is an honest cop & Ilya Sanguinati, Head Other of Sproing is Vicki's lawyer, even if she'd never seen or heard of him before. And of course, books & stories once again play a large part in The Other books, this time we have Julian Farrow of Lettuce Read, who just happens to be an ex-cop who was a friend of Wayne Grimshaw and also an Intuit.

We get an up close & personal view of several new types of Elementals & Elders in this story, as well as Panthergard "call me Cougar" & Beargard. Plenty of Crows, beside Aggie & Sproingers, for whom the town is named & lots of new ways for the elders to make mincemeat of the baddies.

[Laura]

Sandra wrote: "I HATE the covers for the UK/Aussie market for PB books, so I tend to wait & buy the US paperbacks - which means about a 12 mth wait from when they release the Hardcover/Kindle editions. I only got..."

I suppose that once you've done the first one, the wait in between books is going to be the same for you. But too bad you don't get good covers. What is with the covers of some of these UF series?! I know that seeing them has shocked some people that I let my 15 year old read them. But they're clean! And Mercy doesn't dress like that! Or how about Ilona Andrews' The Edge or Hidden Legacy series? :)

[Laura]

Moondance wrote: "I'm afraid to tell you how many cats I have. They greatly outnumber the people in the household. "

There's a simple solution to that.


Take in boarders. :)

[Moondance]

Laura wrote: "Moondance wrote: "I'm afraid to tell you how many cats I have. They greatly outnumber the people in the household. "

There's a simple solution to that.


Take in boarders. :)"

LOL! I'll stick with the cats.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Laura, I love Mercy's tattoo covers and the UK ones are just blah!!!!! I ordered the wrong one once (River Marked) which wasn't too bad but its taller & doesn't really fit well on my shelves. So now I'm careful as to which covers I get, but only on certain series. I'm not a complete nutter!! LOL.

As to Hidden Legacy, Ilona has said they have no say over what goes on the covers of those ones, being Avon, they can do what they like. Strangely, I don't mind those ones, for them its all about the story.

[Marisa]

I must confess I usually loathe the UK covers, booooring 😫 (Don't make me begin on "In Death" or "Psy & Changeling").

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yeah, I don't know why the UK stuffs up the covers on so many books????

In death has gone through so many changes, cause there are so many books, that it would be impossible to have them all the same. I've got quite a few pb & kindle editions & use the library for them as well, and there are quite a few different styles.

Not real keen on the scarred faces covers of Psy-changeling either!!! Never bought one of those, though I've read them through the library while waiting for the good covers to come out. LOL.

[Marisa]

Shelf 1: Futuristic Romance
Book: After Dark by Jayne Castle
Pages: 352
How it fits: Shelved 14 times as Futuristic Romance
Read: 12/03/2018
Rating: ★★★★☆



Review

I don't know how this book had slipped of my radar. I've even read the second one: After Glow, but not this.
Reading it, it's like being with an old friend: hunter male, snobby academic make down in her luck but trying to recover, quirky side characters, witty remarks... and dust bunnies!
It's formulaic, as almost every JAK's, but I like the formula (sometimes better than others but this is one of the good one). It has been a very fast reading, because it has hooked me (putting me aside of my new vice, painting in the phone/tablet), so glad to have been back in Harmony (perhaps I'll reread again the second one), and hoping for more books with dust bunnies.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

:D Marisa, there are plenty of dust bunnies to look forward to in the series.

[Marisa]

Sandra wrote: ":D Marisa, there are plenty of dust bunnies to look forward to in the series."

I know, I've read all the other ones 😂, I hope there are new ones.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Me too!!!

[Laura]

Shelf 1: Futuristic Romance
Book:
Pages: 293
How it fits: Shelved 12 times as Futuristic Romance
Read: 3/13
Rating: 4 stars

Review: I enjoyed this one even better than the first one. I read the first one about a year ago, but I'll definitely not wait as long to get to the next one. The relationship between Eve and Roarke's relationship is wonderful to see, if a tad on the fast side. I did have the mystery figured out about halfway through, but then she did throw a little doubt my way.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Glad you enjoyed it Laura.

I'm finding it a slog through my FRom book and I might change it.

[Natalie]

Week 1 Completion Post: Futuristic Romance
Book: Caressed by Ice
How it fits: Tagged as Futuristic Romance six times
Rating: 3.5/5
Date read: 3/13
Review:

Overall I liked this book. I do put the rating more on me than the book. It's been a while since I read the first two and while I vaguely remembered Brenna, I had to quickly look up Judd as I did not remember him.

I do also enjoy the world that the author created and the continuing storyline that has been developing. I believe I will keep reading the series, but it's not a priority. On one hand, I think I would enjoy them more if I read them closer together, on the other, I have a lot of series I want to read.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Shelf #2 ~ 14/3/18: Immortals
DIRECT LINK - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

I've added Judithe's Spreadsheet link to my first post in the thread, so its easy to find.

[Natalie]

Ongoing Tracking

Team 9: Dressed to the Nines

Free Space - 3/4
Tracked Here

Week 1: Futuristic Romance - 3/4
Tracked Here

Week 2: Immortals - 4/4
Laura - Fairest by Chanda Hahn - ★★★★☆ - 3/17 - review
Marisa - Act of Mercy by Mandy M. Roth - ★★★☆☆ - 3/17 - review
Sandra - Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs - ★★★★☆ - 3/17 - review
Natalie - The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan - ★★★★☆ - 3/18 - review

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Definitely changing my Futuristic Romance book. I'll let you know as soon as I decide Natalie.

Off to check out the new shelf :)

[Natalie]

As tempted as I am to use the reread for one of Tamora Pierce's Immortals quartet, I am going to instead be reading The Blood of Olympus

[Natalie]

Sandra wrote: "Definitely changing my Futuristic Romance book. I'll let you know as soon as I decide Natalie.

Off to check out the new shelf :)"

We've still got a ways to go so no rush. I'm over halfway through my free space book, but it's an audiobook and all my long car travel (aka listening time) keeps getting canceled/pushed back. I should finish before the next shelf call.

[Laura]

I didn't really expect it, but I've learned to check everything, because you never know how people tag books. So, I'll be reading . It's tagged Immortals by one person. :)