June 2018 ~ ATF Challenge

[Grey]

Bethany & Ela, what would you like Tessa to read??

[Bethany]

Fearless

[Jan]

Bethany wrote: "Fearless"

:D

[Ela]

Grey wrote: "Bethany & Ela, what would you like Tessa to read??"



Or

Eye of the Tempest

[Grey]

Ok, Last call.... *giggle* I'll be randomizing these in the next little while if someone else wants to throw a rec in for Tessa.

[Tessa]

I'm not gonna lie. Snowballin kind of scares me. :P Well, frostbite scares me anyway.

[Grey]

Amazingly enough, Tessa... the book that was chosen by completely random draw was Fearless! hope you enjoy!

[Jan]

Hooray! Hope you get hooked on the series, Tessa. Enjoy!

[Tessa]

WOOT! :) I own that one too!

[Jan]

Nice.

[Ela]

Wait WHAT?????????????? TESSA HAS NOT READ FEARLESS AS IN THE FEARLESS WITH MERCY???????????

[Tessa]

The MC one. (No clue about this Mercy) Nope. I own it, but never got around to it. My dark reads have been leading me on the mafia path rather than the mc path.

[Ela]

YES MERCY FEARLESS!!!!!!!!!! AND IT'S GOT QUITE A BIT OF DARK!

[Tessa]

I would think so! :P It's an MC book. I just kept gravitating to scary men in suits rather than scary men in leather.

[Ela]

There are scary AF men in suits too!

[Tessa]

lol

[Jan]

LOL

[Michele]

I soooo loved

It was a great rom-com with a satisfying and happy ending! Yay! Good feels!

[Tessa]

Michele wrote: "I soooo loved

It was a great rom-com with a satisfying and happy ending! Yay! Good feels!"

YEAH! :)

[Grey]

reading my Atf book too... gotta love the Douche bags 🤣😂🤣

[Tessa]

Grey wrote: "reading my Atf book too... gotta love the Douche bags 🤣😂🤣"

:) But you are reading the sweet one.

[Jean]

Wait, I'm too lazy to scroll through the comments.....what book are you reading Grey??

[Jean]

by the way, my pick from Tessa's list is:

[Grey]

I'm reading The Learning Hours from How to Be a Douchebag by Sara Ney

[Jean]

Do those books have to be read in order?

[Tessa]

The Douchebag ones? Not really. They are just people on the same team. There is a continuance to it, but it's not necessary at all.

[Jean]

Thanks Tessa!

[Grey]

The Learning Hours HTDaDB got 4 stars from me! thanks Tessa!

[Tessa]

:) Wasn't he the sweetest? I just wanted to hug him so many times.

[Leslie]

Once again...cue the book guilt. I didnt love

Its my own fault. In effort to go into books "blind" I dont do enough investigating. I didnt realize this was a college romance and I have a low tolerence for college/party life type books.

Anyway, I at least completed it. 3 ***

[Ela]

There's always that!

[Donna]

Hey y’all. What is this Fearless book that you speak of?!

[Tessa]

Leslie wrote: "Once again...cue the book guilt. I didnt love

Its my own fault. In effort to go into books "blind" I dont do enough investigating. I didnt realize this was a..."

I gotta remember you don't like that type. There's tons I love that aren't college/ HS party, but a lot of the CR I read is that type. :) No need for guilt. *hugs* If my head had been on straight, I'd have stopped you.

[Ela]

Donna wrote: "Hey y’all. What is this Fearless book that you speak of?!"

*GASP* SERIOUSLY??????????

[Leslie]

Tessa, I totally loved the flashbacks though.

The going in blind thing seems to be a fail for me lately but other times I would have missed a great book. I read In Harmony based on Robins squeeing and if I read blurb I would have turned my nose up on it. (I hate Shakespeare and not fond of HS aged characters)

[Tessa]

Leslie wrote: "Tessa, I totally loved the flashbacks though.

The going in blind thing seems to be a fail for me lately but other times I would have missed a great book. I read In Harmony based o..."

That was how to do a flashback. :) It's no big. We always disagree when it comes to the college/ HS type stuff. I should've remembered that.

[Tessa]

Ela wrote: "Donna wrote: "Hey y’all. What is this Fearless book that you speak of?!"

*GASP* SERIOUSLY?????????? "

I started it!

[Lisa]

Sadly I DNF'd my pick, Fear Me. So much love for it, but it just wasn't for me. I will still be reading "Frenched" which I mistakenly picked from the list Tessa WANTS to read.

[Ela]

Yeah, it was a 3 star for me not sure why, I guess I just found it mediocre???

[Tessa]

Lisa wrote: "Sadly I DNF'd my pick, Fear Me. So much love for it, but it just wasn't for me. I will still be reading "Frenched" which I mistakenly picked from the list Tessa WANTS to read."

That's too bad. Looking at the blurb, you'll probably like Frenched. :)

[Tessa]

Finished Fearless. 4.5 stars. The half star is because of the lack of angst. Only Aiden's issue made me angsty throughout. *shrugs* But I really did love the story and thought it was fun and didn't want it to stop. :)

[Paula]

You need to read the others now Tessa! Glad you enjoyed it 😀

[Tessa]

I really want to read Aiden's story. I gotta get through do many to get to his. Lol I will though.

[Jan]

Tessa I don't think it matters that much if you read them out of order, now that you've met most of the cast of characters. Go straight to Aiden's book if you want to. Although, come to think of it, the set up for his book comes in Walsh's book, The Skeleton King

I really liked The Skeleton King and have reread it. Walsh doesn't seem that interesting in Fearless, but when he gets his own book, he really shines. And he's gorgeous with Emmy. So maybe try that one first, then you'll be all up to speed on Aiden. These books are addictive.

[Tessa]

Walsh sounds interesting. It's Michael that sounds boring. :) I felt the same way about the third book of the Morelli family. However, that one, if I had skipped it, I'd have missed some MAJOR overall arc stuff. Is there no overall arc between the books? That's not a bad thing but Michael sounds boring.

[Jan]

Tessa, there is an overall arc. Michael also isn't boring, but the woman he hooks up with (can't remember her name) has some major major stuff going on in her life and I found it a bit confronting, actually. But if you're up to it, it's definitely worth reading them all in order, for the full experience. My favs are Skeleton King and Tastes Like Candy. That one is from a kinda side series, Lean Dogs. Oh my God, Candyman!!! Hot, hot, hot.

My least favs are the first one in the Lean Dogs, Snow in Texas which is about Mercy's half-brother Colin (and his relationship with Candyman's sister). Colin is a bit too beta for me. It was still good, but not as good as the others. The worst one for me is Loverboy which was just TOO CONFRONTING for me. But lots of people still loved it. It's the story of Aiden's friend Tango, who suffered terrible abuse as a child. *shudders*. I know it happens, but I don't want to read about it. Some baddies do get their just desserts in the end of the book, but still...... I just couldn't deal. But pretty much the rest of the books are fab.

[Grey]

Ok, updated this graphic too... if I don't have your ratings updated...please enlighten me if you've finished your book! Also, Jen...if you're still with us, I saw that you'd originally intended to join us in this challenge, but I didn't see a book chosen from you?

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The book that was chosen from all of our suggestions and plucked from the magical randomizer for Tessa to read is... Fearless by Lauren Gilley; she rated it 4.5 stars!

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From Tessa's All Time Favorite's List:

Leslie picked and rated it 3 stars.

Paula picked and rated it

Nay picked and rated it

Lisa picked and rated it... but it wasn't on Tessa's list. *giggle* so her real pick was and she DNF'ed.

Michele picked and rated it 5 stars!

Jean picked and rated it 4 stars!

Jan picked and rated it

Grey picked and rated it 4 stars!

Ela picked and rated it 5 stars!

Bethany picked and rated it

[Tessa]

Jean picked Fear Me. :) I don't think I even knew about that book. 0.0 *clicks want to read* It does sound interesting!

[Jan]

I picked up the whole series for mine at the super bargain price. Sweet! But I haven't started it yet LOL. The Mafia and His Angel.

[Jean]

Yes, I picked Fear Me. Haven't read it yet. But I did love Prison Promise even with the editing issues.