The Queen of the Tearling (Book #1) by Erika Johansen → Start Date: September 3rd, 2014

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Please feel free to join Sadie and I!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

me too!! I heard it's about to be a movie too!!!

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2983180/

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I know! it's crazy, I couldn't even find the book and it's optioned as a movie with Emma Watson. lol
crazy how fast it all happened. I'm hoping we love it!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

which cover did you get? the one above or a different one??
I try to avoid book stores! LOL I never leave there without spending lots of money! :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Yay Sadie!! You ready to start this one tomorrow??

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

yikes...chapters are long...

um....4 chapters is 100 pages
BUT

the book is broken up into 3 parts.
each part is about 150 pages....

what do you think? how much to do you plan to read at a time? want to aim for 2 chapters, ~ 50 pages? Or 100 pages? Or by parts?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

no worries. 2 chapters sounds great! I have quite a few books going too - most of them long! LOL
I hope this one is good. I'll be back later tonight with an update!

Happy reading!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay...well..I only made it one chapter but thought I should update.... :)

Kelsea (view spoiler)[ I like her, I like her a lot
but I can't understand why she can be a better ruler without knowing what happened during her mother's reign.I'm intrigued... (hide spoiler)]

Tearling (view spoiler)[ did I miss it? I don't see an explanation as to what this is yet.... (hide spoiler)]

this is really interesting. I can't wait to read more!!!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay, I made it through chapter 2

I can't believe (view spoiler)[ they split up and didn't cover her at all - just one man. and now she's been caught, Yikes. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

no worries :) I'm taking this one nice and slow
I'm having a horrible allergic reaction and am covered in Poison Ivy. I'm on medication and whatnot and it's really messing with my ability to concentrate on reading...

I hope Thailand is a vacation and that you are getting to relax and have fun!! I'll start reading more than one chapter a day on monday, but until then - nice and slow so no worries :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay I'm thru ch 3

and thoroughly confused lol

so fetch (view spoiler)[ uh...told her some history
wow we had an info dump
but for me this still isn't making sense.
I thought we were in the past
but it sounds like we're in a post-war / new age magic land...right?
are you getting that too? they left technology behind and became good at magic? or someone has magic...or something? (hide spoiler)]

but why is (view spoiler)[ fetch so touchy
and undressing her. yikes! but she does seem attracted to him
which seems gross to me :(
maybe it's because she's been so sheltered (hide spoiler)]

assassination (view spoiler)[ everyone keeps saying how she will never live
I wonder why they let her live and retrieved her at all
keeping her naive
and having the guards that had her drinking all the time when EVERYONE seems to know EVERYONE wants to kill her doesn't seem like the best course of action.
I mean, didn't the guards want to be the best of the best and actually keep her safe? (hide spoiler)]

I'll read more tomorrow :)

[Vicki]

Trisha, how is this one?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

lol I'm so glad it isn't just me Sadie!!!

but at least it's interesting so far! I'm so glad we're taking it slow! I'll hopefully pick up reading more chapters this next week!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Vicki wrote: "Trisha, how is this one?"
You know...so far it's odd
We are only 3 chapters in but almost 100 pages in!
and it's still world building - and it's confusing....but interesting. :) the jury is still out

[Vicki]

Haha! Okay I'll wait till the verdict is in to decide if I'll read it. Lol

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay, done with chapter 4
I'm not sure if it's the pace I'm taking this book but I'm getting bored....bleh
hopefully I can read a chapter a day minimum because I'm definitely losing steam! LOL

how are you doing Sadie?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

oh no! Poor baby. I hope she feels better soon!!

no worries, i'd kick this one LOOOOOW down on your reading list. Don't stress about this one as you get caught up.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I don't know Sadie.
Should we abandon this one??

it's pretty awful....lol

I'm almost 200 pages in and I...bleh. I hate reading it :(

[Colleen]

How does this work?
I am thinking about joining.
colleen O'Hara

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Hello Colleen,

I'm so sorry this is a bad example of our buddy reads.
Sadie and I have actually both decided we're not going to continue this book
I know I'm well over 100 pages in and am just not enjoying it.

You can check out our other threads under buddy reads and see if there is another book you might want to try.
We just read the book together and make posts discussing it! it's fun!