R17: Team #3 ~ Four not Three

[Martha]

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Shelf #4 Paranormal Romance

Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione
Shelved 509 times as Paranormal Romance

[Marisa]

Announcement Post

Shelf #4 ~ 03/10/18: Paranormal Romance
DIRECT LINK - Paranormal Romance shelf

[Marisa]

Weekly Tracking Post

Week 4: Paranormal Romance

● Loriidae: Hour of Darkness by Lara Adrian (10/10/2018 - ★★★★) Review
● Marisa: Spirited by Mary Behre (08/10/2018 - ★★½) Review
● Martha: Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione (05/10/2018 - ★★★★) Review
● Sunshine: Better Read Than Dead by Victoria Laurie (06/10/2018 - ★★★★) Review



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[Sunshine✰✰✰]

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Shelf #4 Paranormal Romance

Book: The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox
How it fits: Shelved Paranormal Romance 9 times
Pages: 251

[Marisa]

Selection Post - Week 4 - Paranormal Romance
Spirited by Mary Behre



Shelved 30 times as Paranormal Romance

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Selection Post - Shelf Four - Paranormal Romance

Hour of Darkness (#2 Hunter Legacy ) Lara Adrian
Pages: 320
How it fits: Shelved as Paranormal Romance

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

COMPLETION POST
Week 3: Own It

Book: Serpent's Kiss by Thea Harrison 10/4/18
How it fits: Tagged Own It 4 times
Pages: 336
Rating: 3 Stars

Review
It was a slow start and a slow middle. It didn't really get exciting until Rune & Carling left the island to find a cure. I loved their romance though. They are very evenly matched... Speed, strength, power. Even emotionally, they fight their feelings as they know they have no time to be together, but it's a loosing battle. There is an element of time travel that also reinforces their feelings towards each other. I hope future books will touch on how the minuscule changes they made to the past will affect the future.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

I changed my book

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Shelf #4 Paranormal Romance

Book: Better Read Than Dead by Victoria Laurie
How it fits: Shelved Paranormal Romance 23 times
Pages: 296

[Marisa]

Sunshine✰✰✰ wrote: "I changed my bookSelection PostShelf #4 Paranormal Romance
Book: Better Read Than Dead by Victoria LaurieHow it fits: Shelved Paranormal Romance 23 timesPages: 296"

Ditto.

[Martha]

I loved Harrison’s Elder Races. I miss it now that I’m slogging through Ione’s Demonica which is okay but not as fun.

[Marisa]

I loved the first ones, I think I haven't read the last. And my book is ok, a nice change of pace (psychic gifts instead of paranormal beings).

[Marisa]

Well, "Own It" completed, let's go to the bureaucracy to request the stamp ;)

[Martha]

We’re doing great on the stamps, it’s too bad they’re in such random locations on our card!

[Martha]

Completion Post
Shelf #4 Paranormal Romance

Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione
Shelved 509 times
432 pages
Read: 10/5/2018
Rating: ★★★★
I think this is the first Demonica book that I’ve given four stars. The romance was, if anything, even more unlikely than the others, although all of Ione’s lovers are beyond star crossed. I think maybe I liked it more because some of the worst big bad guys and things finally get resolved. I like dark just fine but (view spoiler)[I was relieved to see Armageddon finally come to an end and Australia returned from demon rule. (hide spoiler)] Now that three of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have found their HEA I think I have to go straight to the next book and get that last Horseman settled.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, Four not Three!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'own it'. 

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

Good Job!! :D

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Congrats on the stamp Three Not Four!

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Congratulations team Yay us!

[Marisa]

Thank you Steph! Thank you Sandra! And yes, congrats to the team. Let's hope Lady Fortune will be kinder from now on.

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

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Shelf #4 Paranormal Romance

ook: Better Read Than Dead by Victoria Laurie 10/6/18
How it fits: Shelved Paranormal Romance 23 times
Pages: 296
Rating: 4 Stars

Review
Abby's friend calls in a favor for her to be a second Tarot Card reader at a wedding. Turns out the wedding was for the daughter of a Greek mob boss. While trying hard to dodge working for the guy (he was very persuasive), Abby is also trying to help the police catch a serial rapist. Abby & Dutch's relationship didn't move forward at all like I hoped after how the first book ended. In fact, you could even say it went backwards a bit. I love listening to Abby's inner "guys" as they help her. Even when she herself lies they like to say, Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. :-) Abby's facing a new beginning in the next book and I hope I can get myself to read it soon!

[Marisa]

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Shelf 4: Paranormal Romance
Book: Spirited by Mary Behre
Pages: 320
How it fits: Shelved 30 times as Paranormal Romance
Read: 08/10/2018
Rating: ★★☆



Review

This is not my kind of book, for sure. Too slow, too far-fetched, too many coincidences. And very, very slooooow. It looks like the story doesn't go forward unless you find another coincidence in your way. And her "crift", as she calls it... I don't know, we go from "Leave me alone" to "Come, I can help you" in zero, coma (sorry, Spanish expression). And the relationship between the main characters... if you can call it when it looks like everything in both of them gets horny to the other (everything, seriously). And in the first problem, the hero drops her... but later she excuses it fast... because the book had to finish...

I wouldn't have finished the book if not by the bingo, but it passes because of the secondary characters, but I don't know if I'm going to read the following books.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Marisa - great review - I have a shelf for this type of book :) tried book one not impressed

[Marisa]

Thank you, Loriidae, and yes, it's the proper shelf.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Completion Post - Shelf Four - Paranormal Romance

Hour of Darkness (#2 Hunter Legacy ) Lara Adrian
Pages: 320
How it fits: Shelved as Paranormal Romance
Review: This is the second novel of the spin off series set 20 years after the conclusion of the first Midnight Breed series. The men of the Hunter Legacy have had horrific childhoods and Lara Adrian does the tortured hero trope extremely well and makes the insta-love work. hot hot hot!

Cain is an alpha but not overbearing, driven to protect and tortured by visions of death. I liked that when everything went sideways, Marina looked to Cain for help rather than go all TSTL and try to go it alone.
Read: Oct 10
Rating: ★★★★✰

[Marisa]

Bureaucracy finished and stamp requested. Let's hope Lady Fortune is nice with us today (tomorrow for me).

[Martha]

Great work as captain, Marisa! And I’m enjoying all the reviews!

[Marisa]

Paperwork is my work ;) And I'm enjoying the reviews too, a lot.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Congratulations team we may be three away from bingo in all directions but we are the only team with all 5 Shelves stamped! Way to go!

[Marisa]

Announcement Post

Shelf #5 ~ 10/10/18: Time Travel
DIRECT LINK - Time Travel shelf

[Marisa]

Weekly Tracking Post

Week 5: Time Travel

● Loriidae: Kill the Queen by (Jennifer Estep) (Alternate Task - First in a Series) (13/10/2018 - ★★★★) Review
● Marisa: Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (16/10/2018 - ★★★★) Review
● Martha: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (17/10/2018 - ★★★★) Review
● Sunshine: Knight Moves by Cynthia Luhrs (30/10/2018 - ★★★) Review



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[lorii (Loriidae)]

Ok...not my preferred... I have been considering watching Outlander on Netflix Does that count? :D

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

LOL

[Marisa]

Loriidae wrote: "Ok...not my preferred... I have been considering watching Outlander on Netflix Does that count? :D"

LOL, in my case I think I'm going with an old friend, Terry Pratchett ;)

[Marisa]

Selection Post - Week 5 - Time Travel
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett



Shelved 150 times as Time Travel

[Sunshine✰✰✰]

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Shelf #5 Time Travel

Book: Rendezvous With Yesterday
How it fits: Shelved Time Travel 32 times
Pages: 403

[Martha]

Selection Post
Shelf #5 Time Travel

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Ok, I’ll go with the first book on the list. I’ve watched the show but never read the books so it’s about time (pun intended).

[lorii (Loriidae)]

I am going to take the alternative option not sure which one at this stage

[Marisa]

Martha wrote: "Selection Post
Shelf #5 Time Travel

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Ok, I’ll go with the first book on the list. I’ve watched the show but never..."

:P I read this book in Spanish I think almost 30 years ago (I don't know it I was already at the university or still at high school)

[Martha]

Outlander was published in 1991 so I am 27 years behind on my reading. I don’t know why I never read it although I’ll confess that I didn’t read much romance until a few years ago.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Martha wrote: "Outlander was published in 1991 so I am 27 years behind on my reading. I don’t know why I never read it although I’ll confess that I didn’t read much romance until a few years ago."

That's when I read it, I think I gave up halfway through the second book, that's why I haven't dived into the tv show.

[Martha]

I actually am not crazy about the show, although I keep watching it. I recently read on Ilona Andrews website that she doesn’t like Outlander. I haven’t started it yet—I’m caught up in a Robin Hobb’s book which is good but very long.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

I read a lot of early Robin Hobb I was seiously into fantsdy in the nineties and have only picked the genre back up this year.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Selection Post - Shelf - Time Travel - Alternate task
Alternative Reader's Choice Options:
~ First Book in a Series

Kill the Queen Jennifer Estep
Pages: 480
How it fits: #1 Crown of Shards series

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Completion Post - Shelf - Time Travel - Alternate task
Alternative Reader's Choice Options: ~ First Book in a Series


Kill the Queen Jennifer Estep
Pages: 480
How it fits: #1 Crown of Shards
Review:
A tale of revenge, this is a fantasy work set in a mythical Kingdom with the usual magics of varying levels of proficiency, from Masters down to people with very little magic known as mutts. There are shapeshifters, called morphs and interestingly one of the morphs is an ogre form. I did feel the first part was a little slow because of the amount of telling that was used to set up the world building, which in some ways was quite simplistic. I was also surprised to find that the heroine was 27 as her character read a lot younger. I really enjoyed this book but it fell short of the five star mark due to Jennifer Estep's habit of repetitive phrasing and the degree of telling through narrative rather than showing through a character's actions.

Triggers: Gladiator battles with graphic fighting scenes.
Read: Oct 13
Rating: ★★★★✰

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, Four not Three!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'paranormal romance'. 

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

Good Job!! :D

[Marisa]

Thank you, Steph!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Congrats on the stamp Three Not Four!

[Marisa]

Thank you, Sandra!

[Martha]

I’m still reading Outlander—it’s good but so long! It seems like I’ve been reading it forever and I’m only at 72%. I should have it finished by tomorrow, though.

[Marisa]

Announcement Post

Shelf #5 ~ 17/10/18: Motorycycle Club
DIRECT LINK - Motorcycle Club

[Marisa]

Weekly Tracking Post

Week 6: Motorcycle Club

● Loriidae: Seven Years by Dannika Dark (22/10/2018 - ★) Review
● Marisa: Raven Cursed by Jane Yellowrock (25/10/2018 - ★★★) Review
● Martha: Wicked Ride by Rebecca Zanetti (21/10/2018 - ★★★) Review
● Sunshine: Easy by Dahlia West (20/10/2018 - ★★★★) Review



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