R16: Team #16 ~ Seeing Double

[Kaity]

Nice! Requested our stamp for Detective :D

[Lis]

I'm going with since 5 people marked it as Shifters... woot woot!

[Kaity]

Lis wrote: "I'm going with since 5 people marked it as Shifters... woot woot!"

:D Enjoy!! Love it when the calls work in your favor.

[Kaity]

According to Sam's update earlier today....

Team 16: Seeing Double
3 away from bingo
Shelves Called (plus free space): 6
Shelves Stamped: 3

I've requested our Detective stamp. We're just missing Free Space and Demons (and, of course, Shifters now).

The closest teams to winning are still 2 calls away.

[Lis]

We have three in a row now with Shifters. Gotta read read read.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, Seeing Double!
We now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'detective'. 

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

Yay!! :D

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Great reviews, ladies! I've been catching up on Wright's Phoenix Pack series and have the last (latest) one TBR, which works great for this week's shelf. So, I'll be reading: for 'shifters'.

[Kaity]

I will read for the Shifters shelf.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Hope you enjoy Dev's story, Kait :D

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Congrats on the stamp Tired & Emotional!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Thanks! :)

[Kaity]

Thank you both! ;P I shall enjoy the book and the stamp

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Fierce Obsessions by Suzanne Wright
Series: Phoenix Pack #6
Shelf: Shifters
Read: 15 Apr
Rating: ✮✮✮✮½

Review:
Fierce Obsessions tells Tao and Riley's story. We met Riley, a raven shifter, in Savage Urges along with her two charges, lone shifters Savannah (four-year-old viper) and Dexter (two-year-old cheetah). They may be young, but they are fierce - fiercely protective of Riley. Tao Lukas is the Phoenix Pack's head enforcer. He's untrusting of outsiders, so it's no surprise he's uncertain about the pack's newest arrivals. He might be uncommunicative and quite cynical about relationships, but he knows one thing - he's wanted Riley since he first saw her. Riley's raven is similarly interested in Tao.

This was probably one of my favorites in the series so far. From the start, these two are open about their feelings for the other. It's refreshing. They tease each other, but they don't hide or deny their attraction.

The tension in this installment comes from a human drug lord who's insisting Taryn, Phoenix Pack Alpha and healer, heal his dying brother. In addition, Riley returns to her pack (Exodus Flock) with Tao to celebrate her uncles' anniversary and there are those in her pack who aren't too happy to see her return.

I'm looking forward to Trick's story next in Wild Hunger, but when is Dominic going to get his book?! I canNOT wait for the adorable, chronic flirt to meet his match.

[Carrie]

Shelf: Shifters
Book:
Read: April 17
Rating: 4 stars
Review: Kitty is a rogue wolf, packless and moving from radio station to the next to her late night talk show "Kitty and the Midnight Hour". While on the road she get's a subpoena to go senate regarding were's vampires and other things that go bump in the night.

The moment she get's there it seems to be one thing after another. Stopped by men in suits, staying with the Mistress of Washington, Alette a vampire who views all her people as family.

I grew to like Kitty even more in this book, she didn't attack when she could have, when (view spoiler)[ come on kidnapped on the full moon (hide spoiler)] she's restraint.

Loved the book, not waiting long to read book 3.

[Carrie]

Selection Post:
Free Space:

[Steph, Serious series addict]

You're reading some of oldie, but goodies :D Glad you enjoyed Kitty, Carrie. I hope you enjoy Rachel as well.

[Lis]

I love Jenks... all his slang phrases. "Tinks...this or that". Or "fairy farts..." Got a little book envy going on, wish I was starting the Hollows series again... so good. One of my all time favorites... I struggled a little with the first book, so much world building dump, but the series gets so much better as the story develops... Enjoy!!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Lis wrote: "I love Jenks... all his slang phrases. "Tinks...this or that". Or "fairy farts..." Got a little book envy going on, wish I was starting the Hollows series again... so good. One of my all time favor..."

Same! :)

[Carrie]

See a lot of the olderish uf/pnr series I have started but only read book 1 of like them. A few I got more books in but new shiny's. Lol. This will be a re-read for me, so I can go on. Book 1 was the as far as I go in this one too. I bought a bunch of Kim Harrison and Kelly Armstrong books at the same time like forever ago (ie when they where coming out or had been for not that long) and I got as far as Dead Witch Walking and Bitten. So I'm trying to get farther in a bunch to in them my goal for the year is to finish/get caught up in at least 5 series I have started.

[Lis]

Both are good series, but Rachel and her gang are unique and fun. After the first couple of books it really gets good. Can leave you with some real raw emotions with some of the character development and happenings.

Sometimes there are so many shiney new books it's hard to choose... my nemesis series that I need to finish are Butcher's Dresden Files and Chance's Cassandra Palmer series.

Also, RL kicked my butt this week so I'm a bit behind on squeezing reading time for my Shifter shelf. Should have picked and audio version...

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Hard to pass up some of the new and shiny :)

[Kaity]

Shelf #7 ~ 18/4/18: Necromancers
DIRECT LINK - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[Kaity]

Carrie wrote: "Shelf: Shifters
Book:
Read: April 17
Rating: 4 stars
Review: Kitty is a rogue wolf, packless and moving from radio station to the next to her late night t..."

I haven't thought about Kitty in ages!! Glad you enjoyed it.

[Kaity]

Lis wrote: "Both are good series, but Rachel and her gang are unique and fun. After the first couple of books it really gets good. Can leave you with some real raw emotions with some of the character developme..."

I've been very slowly chipping away at the Dresden Files series too. I highly doubt I'll ever catch up :P

[Steph, Serious series addict]

I've not started Dresden, but I did watch the TV show. Hubby's been keeping up with the series and keeps trying to get me reading it. I thought it being voted our series read of the year would've pushed me as well, but nope. Still not super interested. :/

For necromancers, I'm going to check out (shelved twice)

[Carrie]

I'm going with

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Enjoy. I liked that trilogy.

[Lis]

I'm going with for necromancers shelf pick...

[Kaity]

I will read for the Necromancers shelf (woop woop! Look at me go through this series!)

[Kaity]

Now that Necromancers has been called, two teams are one away from bingo. One team needs Guilty Pleasures and the other needs Spin-Off.

[Kaity]

Book - Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh
Shelf - Shifters
Pages - 373 pages
Date Read - April 19
Rating - 5 stars
Review - Fantastic!! Blaze of Memory as a whole was a wonderful read but I spent the entire second half flying through the pages. Nalini Singh's storytelling has a direct line on my emotions and she brought it big time for the end of the book. How often can you say a paranormal romance almost made you cry?
One of the things I love most about this series, is all of the character appearance and how true to character they remain. I hate reading a later series book and coming across previous MCs who act different and usually it's for the worse. The kids were a highlight for me in this book!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Kait wrote: "Now that Necromancers has been called, two teams are one away from bingo. One team needs Guilty Pleasures and the other needs Spin-Off."

Eek!

Kait wrote: "How often can you say a paranormal romance almost made you cry?"

She's definitely gifted in that way.

I gobbled up my necro book in one sitting. I really liked it, so much that I bought the next two books. I'll get my review done shortly.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

How to Save an Undead Life by Hailey Edwards
Series: Beginner's Guide to Necromancy #1
Shelf: necromancers
Read: 19 Apr
Rating: ✮✮✮✮½

My Review:
How to Save an Undead Life was a surprisingly intriguing read. By that I mean there is so much more to the story than I expected. So much that I'm not sure how to compose a review that won't be either a duplication of the offered blurb or a spoiler. Much is left to either the reader's imagination or to be learned later, which would normally frustrate me however, in this case, it only made me more ravenous for details.

"Make no apologies for surviving."

When we meet Grier Woolworth she's screamed herself awake from a bad dream and tries to soothe and reassure her (friendly, protective) haunted house, Woolly (Woolworth House) that she's okay. All we're told about her PTSD-induced nightmares is that they stem from her time in "the black stone prison called Altramentous", from which she was only recently released, for reasons unknown. As a necromancer who is used to being among humans, she gives the nightly tours and revels her victim's (tour attendees) jumps and squeals as she regales the haunted history of locations around her city. She's an employee of Cricket, owner of Haint Misbehavin' Ghost Tours in Savannah, Georgia; she loves her job, she's also very good at it.

There is so much information dumped in this intro into Edwards' world of necromancers, ghosts and vampires, but in the best way possible. Tidbits dropped here and there like crumbs that I greedily gobble in hunt for the next and the next. I read this book in one sitting and immediately bought books two and three to be read next. This is my first read by Hailey Edwards, but it will not be my last.

I thoroughly enjoyed the world she's created with this series - the different levels of society among necromancers; her take on vampires, their creation and abilities; Grier - this intricate character with a big heart and even bigger hurts; her zombie parakeet and mothering house; and the friendships which help Grier in ever way good friends should.

[Lis]

Completion Post ~ Shifters



Title/Author: Ashes by Suzanne Wright
Series: Dark In You #3
Date Read: 4/21/2018
Shelf: Shelf - Shifters
Pages: 352
Rating: ★★★★1/2

Review: Another good addition to the Dark in You series. The primes are still being challenged by the covert Horseman group and poor Harper is still being challenged by those that can't accept that Knox chose her as mate. She's a tough chickie chick, so you'd think by now the other demons would catch on by now... If you target Harper you die, if you hurt Harper you die ugly. If she doesn't kill you herself, bad boy Knox will and it will be slow and painful. As much as news travels in this world, you'd think they wise up and realize any plan to topple this duo is just a really bad idea. Some really good things happened that are too spoilery to share, but such a good outcome, such a good support system of friends and allies. All caught up and can't wait until Embers.

[Carrie]

Shelf: Free Space
Book:
Read: April 23
Rating 4 stars
Review: This was a re-read for me.

Rachel Morgan is a witch and former runner for the I.S. Who is going out on her own, with a fellow workmate, a vampire named Ivy. This taking of Ivy from the I.S has landed her with a contract on her life. So not only is she trying to tag her own run, and bring down a biodrug ring? Lord? She's got her vampire friend a little to hot and bothered. (There are some things you don't do or wear when you don't want the attention of a particular vamp, and apparently some fun things you can do with them, according to the diagrams random people on the bus have pointed out to Rachel.
Dead Witch Walking has a great cast of characters, which is good because the book's pace is slowish at times. It like last time has left me with the same questions and speculations, especially regrading Nick....until next book.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, Seeing Double!
We now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'shifters'. 

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

Good Job!! :D

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Glad y'all enjoyed your books, Ladies!

I've been binging on Netflix and reading the other two books out in Hailey Edwards necromancer series (I read the first for our shelf) and I really enjoyed them. Sad there isn't another out yet though - and worse, there's no listing of when it'll be out. Waaaah.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Congrats on the stamp Tired & Emotional!

[Lis]

Yay teamies!!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Woohoo! Thanks Sandra :)

[Lis]

Finished my Necromancer book, just need to get my thoughts together for a review... Happy shelf day.

[Kaity]

Steph wrote: "I gobbled up my necro book in one sitting. I really liked it, so much that I bought the next two books. I'll get my review done shortly."

That's fantastic! I feel like I should be congratulating you :P Hope the next two are just as wonderful.

[Kaity]

Woohoo! Another stamp and I just requested our free space one :D

[Kaity]

Shelf #8 ~ 25/4/18: Hunter (Please ignore all the kid's books, someone obviously called their kid Hunter.)
DIRECT LINK - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, Seeing Double!
We now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'free space'. 

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

Yay!! :D

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Kait wrote: "Shelf #8 ~ 25/4/18: Hunter (Please ignore all the kid's books, someone obviously called their kid Hunter.)
DIRECT LINK - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/..."

LOL!! I think I remember that from a past round. Shoot. I'll have to change the shelf slightly in the future to avoid that.

I'm not sure what I'll read for this shelf. I'll back soon with my choice.

Kait wrote: "That's fantastic! I feel like I should be congratulating you :P Hope the next two are just as wonderful."

:D I read all three and am now waiting for #4. I got sucked in and barely came up for air.

Wooohooo! Another stamp! Go, team, go!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Congrats on the stamp Tired & Emotional!

And yep I seem to remember the same thing about this shelf :)

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Thanks :)

Every time I see your nickname for us I laugh b/c it fits a lot of the time. In actuality, we named ourselves Seeing Double b/c we're team 16 in round 16.

Now, if I can just remember it next time I think it's a good idea for a shelf. LOL! ;)

For this one, I think I'll read - I'd been holding off, waiting for the audio version, but no such luck.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yep, I know the reasoning behind Seeing Double, that's the fun of nicknames you take a name & twist & twist and see what happens :D

[Steph, Serious series addict]

😜