Mad About Series Challenge - 2019

[Sam I]

Priya wrote: "Sam (AMNReader) wrote: "Hi, I just added 3 series to mine, so I think I'm whatever the above 7 level is now--addictive.

I've completed Ravenels and well on my way to finishing the Elightenment se..."

Thanks!!

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Just finished Maiden Lane Book 1, by Elizabeth Hoyt. For the BOTM. 4 Stars
As I already have some more Maiden Lane Books I have added these to my mad about a series. Will be starting Book 2 today. Notorious Pleasure

[Janet]

Hi, I'd like to up my challenge level to 2 Voracious as I'm going to be adding Sophie Jordan's The Rogue Files Series! Thanks

[Priya]

Janet wrote: "Hi, I'd like to up my challenge level to 2 Voracious as I'm going to be adding Sophie Jordan's The Rogue Files Series! Thanks"

Updated!

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Finished Notorious Pleasure, 4 stars. Now starting Scandalous Desires Maiden Lane 3. Silence and Mickey O'Connor Story

[Jan]

Yay. Finished two more books from my series recently - Soul's Fire by Susan Fanetti, from the Northwomen Sagas (Vikings). 4 stars. Now only 1 book to go for that series.


And I just finished My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne (Spymaster series). 3 to 3.5 stars. 2 more books to go in that series :)

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Finished reading Winter's and Isabel's story , 4 stars. The Older woman and younger man. love story.

Lord of Darkness to be started today. Maiden Lane 5.

[Joanna Loves Reading, Bluestocking of HR novels]

What did you think of Silence and Mickey’s story? Have a favorite so far? Lots of Darkness is among my favorites by Hoyt.

[Debby *BabyDee*]

@ Shaz...I loved this series by Hoyt. Curious to know how you are liking Maiden Lane 5?

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Just finished Book 5 . Enjoyed it, Started off a sad story. But love won in the end.
Starting book 6 tonight Maximus and Artemis Story. I have high hopes for Artemis, the down trodden cousin of spoiled Lady Penelope.

[Joanna Loves Reading, Bluestocking of HR novels]

Shaz wrote: "Just finished Book 5 . Enjoyed it, Started off a sad story. But love won in the end.
Starting book 6 tonight Maximus and Artemis Story. I have high hopes for Artemis, the down trodden cousin of sp..."

Artemis is one of my favorite Heroines out there. I love her quiet strength.

[Meredith]

I just went on vacation and read a lot! Plus I am summarizing below as well.
Counting Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas as finishing that series (but I still think I may reread them anyway), I am at five so far.
I finished the Simply Quartet by Mary Balogh. I enjoyed glimpsing the Bedwyns again and enjoyed the last book the most.
I am 3 books in to the Westcott series by Mary Balogh. I like how she set up the story in the first book and is playing out the different aspects of it in the next ones. Something I enjoy about series!
I have read two of three books in A Season for Scandal series by Kelly Bowen.

[Mariana]

Meredith wrote: "I just went on vacation and read a lot! Plus I am summarizing below as well.
Counting Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas as finishing that series (but I still think I may reread them anyway), I am at..."

That sounds like a fun and relaxing vacation. :)

[Jan]

Meredith wrote: "I just went on vacation and read a lot! Plus I am summarizing below as well.
Counting Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas as finishing that series (but I still think I may reread them anyway), I am at..."

Sounds like a nice way to send your vacation! I've read a few of those you mention too. I read (and loved) Devil's Daughter too but I hadn't thought of counting it as another series finished LOL. Nice work. Did you see that Lisa Kleypas has released a blurb for Chasing Cassandra? Sequel to Devil's Daughter, but not due till 2020.

[Jan]

I've finished another in the Spymasters series, The Black Hawk by Joanna Bourne. 3.5 stars. Only one book to go in that series now. Yay!

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Finished Book 6. Loved Maximus and Artemis story, 5 stars.
Book 7 Maiden Lane to be read next.

[Jan]

Shaz wrote: "Finished Book 6. Loved Maximus and Artemis story, 5 stars.
Book 7 Maiden Lane to be read next."

You are racing through these books, Shaz! Glad you're enjoying the series. I did a similar thing when I discovered the series a couple of years ago. My favs of the series were Duke of Sin (although I had some reservations about the H!) and Duke of Pleasure and my least favs were Scandalous Desires and Sweetest Scoundrel. My average rating was 3.5, I guess, (but I am a 'hard marker'!), but I did read them all. An enjoyable series to get lost in.

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Just finished Darling Beast, Good read,
Fav up to now is Duke of Midnight. On Page 70 of Dearest Rogue, Book 8. I had 4 books on my bookshelf , Went to the library for the rest.

. Better reading all these books, than listening about BREXIT LOL

Glad you enjoyed them Jan, looking forward to Duke of Sin now.

[Jan]

Shaz wrote: "Better reading all these books, than listening about BREXIT LOL."

Ha ha ha. yes.

[Mariana]

Shaz wrote: "Just finished Darling Beast, Good read,
Fav up to now is Duke of Midnight. On Page 70 of Dearest Rogue, Book 8. I had 4 books on my bookshelf , Went to the library for the rest.

. Better reading ..."

I always like it when I enjoy a series well enough to read the books back to back. That is my preferred method, but there are some series that I have to take breaks between books before continuing.

Glad you are enjoying Maiden Lane series so well!

[Jan]

That's true, Mariana. Sometimes I devour a series back-to-back, but for some series I need to take a break between books, too. At the moment I'm taking a little break before I tackle the final in the Spymasters series.

[Mariana]

Jan wrote: "That's true, Mariana. Sometimes I devour a series back-to-back, but for some series I need to take a break between books, too. At the moment I'm taking a little break before I tackle the final in t..."

The Spymasters series took me two years to finish. They are so unique but the writing style started to feel reduntant. After the first half, I had to take a long break between each of the last books.

[Jan]

Mariana wrote: "The Spymasters series took me two years to finish. They are so unique but the writing style started to feel reduntant. After the first half, I had to take a long break between each of the last books. "

Yeah, similar for me. I read the first one way back in Dec 2017, and I've still got one to go. I like them but they're intense and yeah, a bit too similar in some ways to just read back-to-back.

[Meredith]

Jan wrote: "Meredith wrote: "I just went on vacation and read a lot! Plus I am summarizing below as well.
Counting Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas as finishing that series (but I still think I may reread them..."
I hadn't seen that but I will look forward to it!

[Jan]

Just finished another one in the Bridgertons series - To Sir Phillip, With Love. Not my fav of the series - 2.5 stars.

I've now read 7 out of the 21 books I'm aiming to read for this challenge. Going OK so far. Much better than last year :)

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Well done Jan.
I loved the Bridgerton series.

I am on Book 10 now. Duke of Sin. He not a very nice Duke. Bridget got some work to do to make Val a nice Duke.

[Mariana]

Shaz wrote: "Well done Jan.
I loved the Bridgerton series.

I am on Book 10 now. Duke of Sin. He not a very nice Duke. Bridget got some work to do to make Val a nice Duke."

He was never a nice duke for me.

[Jan]

Yeah he is kinda sexy but also amoral. His past was a little too black for me. I would like to reread sometime and see what I think second time around. Also, a minor peeve, but I hated the h's name. Bridget CRUMB???? Really? Is that the best Ms Hoyt could come up with?????? Val I'm-too-sexy-for-my-clothes falls for Mrs Crumb? Riigghhhtttt.

[Mariana]

Jan wrote: "Yeah he is kinda sexy but also amoral. His past was a little too black for me. I would like to reread sometime and see what I think second time around. Also, a minor peeve, but I hated the h's name..."

Ha, ha, didn't remember that.

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

I also thought CRUMB was not a very good name HA HA.
Reading Duke of Pleasure at the moment. Young Alf story.
See Bridget and Val went abroad.

[Debby *BabyDee*]

Jan wrote: "Just finished another one in the Bridgertons series - To Sir Phillip, With Love. Not my fav of the series - 2.5 stars.

I've now read 7 out of the 21 books I'm aiming to read for this..."

Jan, that was not my favoriet either when I read.

[Jan]

Shaz wrote: "I also thought CRUMB was not a very good name HA HA.
Reading Duke of Pleasure at the moment. Young Alf story.
See Bridget and Val went abroad."

I liked Duke of Pleasure. One of the better ones in the series IMO.

[Jan]

Debby "Piene Raven" wrote: "Jan, that was not my favoriet either when I read."

Thanks Debby. GTK I'm not the only one that didn't love that one.

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Just finished duke of pleasure ,I did like this story. Loved the ending.
Started Duke of desire tonight.

[Jan]

Shaz wrote: "Just finished duke of pleasure ,I did like this story. Loved the ending.
Started Duke of desire tonight."

Wow Shaz, you are tearing through this series! Nice work.

[Jan]

Darbella wrote: "One weird fact about Bridget Crumb that I remember reading is that she has sausage fingers. Ha!"

???? I can't remember that. It doesn't sound very appealing! LOL. Bad boy Val may be, but I always felt he could have done better than Ms Crumb, and not just because of her name LOL. They were a couple that didn't quite have that perfect chemistry we love to read about IMO.

[Jan]

Darbella wrote: "It has been a long time ago since I read that book, but I am pretty sure the author mentioned that Bridget's fingers were small and plump. I bet my mind conjured the image of small, sausage links o..."

Ha ha ha. I would like to reread it sometime, and when I do I'll keep my eyes open for any reference to sausages.

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Just pressed update for no of books , and it has put me back to 0 books when I have read 16 in this challenge,

[Steph]

Late to join but I’m going to add some retroactively.

Going for addictive level because I’m not sure I can find more unread series to tackle.

[Joanna Loves Reading, Bluestocking of HR novels]

Retroactive counting is perfectly fine. Welcome Steph!

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

All 12 Maiden Lane book series , Finished. Now to see which series to read next.

[Priya]

Shaz wrote: "Just pressed update for no of books , and it has put me back to 0 books when I have read 16 in this challenge,"

That happens sometimes when we update a challenge. Please make sure you entered the bookshelf name exactly as you see it in your shelves list.

[Jan]

Shaz wrote: "All 12 Maiden Lane book series , Finished. Now to see which series to read next."

Wow! Well done Shaz. There are plenty of series to choose from. Enjoy!

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Priya wrote: "Shaz wrote: "Just pressed update for no of books , and it has put me back to 0 books when I have read 16 in this challenge,"

That happens sometimes when we update a challenge. Please make sure you..."
I have tried everything , and have now given up. It wiped my 16 books and put me back to 0 .also not registered a new book I completed.

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Jan wrote: "Shaz wrote: "All 12 Maiden Lane book series , Finished. Now to see which series to read next."

Wow! Well done Shaz. There are plenty of series to choose from. Enjoy!"

Thanks Jan, Now reading Russian Royals of Kuban by Bronwyn Scott. 4 Books

[Mariana]

I just wrapped up 3 of 6 series this month!

[Priya]

Mariana wrote: "I just wrapped up 3 of 6 series this month!"

Wow!

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Thank you once again for your help, Priya. Back on track now.

[Jan]

Mariana wrote: "I just wrapped up 3 of 6 series this month!"

That's great, Mariana! Well done.

[🐝 Shaz 🐝]

Mariana wrote: "I just wrapped up 3 of 6 series this month!"

Well done Mariana.