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Now I want to go back and read that series! I do love the world she created.
Lol Leslie! Glad you liked it Mika, I loved it. I still need to read the LOD series.
Jenne wrote: "Lol Leslie! Glad you liked it Mika, I loved it. I still need to read the LOD series."See I'm all caught up. I just need to read Reseph book but since I have Reaver as well. I decided to re-read the series before the new book comes out in Dec.
Spot 64
10/17/14 4.5★
Review:
Once again, JAL has written a sparkling, intelligent, original HR. This has slowly become one of my favorite series. There were a very few things that bugged me in this one, but overall I loved it. Phoebe is an unconventional heroine, a feisty schoolteacher who has a love of Ton gossip. Julian, the Marquess appears conventional but quickly reveals himself to be something else as he becomes involved with Phoebe. It is an intriguing storyline and moves along pretty quickly. Great stuff!
Spot 64 ReviewsLeslie:How the Marquess Was Woncompleted 10/17/14 Review
Jenne:And With Madness Comes the Lightcompleted 10/16/14 Review
Tamika:Ecstasy Unveiledcompleted 10/16/14 Review
Theo:The Mephisto Clubcompleted 10/18/14 Review
Looks like we all loved our reads this week, hope Theo did too :DI'm on the last EIT book today and have no idea how I'm going to survive....
Ha ha, Jenne! It is so sad when a good series ends. I've had several of my favorite series end recently and it left my floundering trying to find something to replace them.
Spot 64:Read:
by Tess GerritsenFinished: 10/18/14
Rating: 4 stars
Review: It doesn’t look like our favorite police detective/medical examiner team is going to have a very merry Christmas, and not just because Christmas Eve finds them both at the scene of an exceptionally brutal crime. Rizzoli is dealing with some unexpected strife between her parents, and Isles may be walking too fine a line in her friendship with priest Father Brophy. With Satanic, and just plain unidentifiable symbolic messages left at the crime scene, and evidence leading to a psychologist who gets under both ladies’ skins, Rizzoli and Isles find themselves working with a group of international researchers convinced that evil is real and demons live among us. As always, it’s a page-turner filled with enough suspense and plot twists to keep you up late!
^5's team we rocked it :)We're in the lead too (just barely though)
Great job Team!! I will post at midnight and then roll!
Sounds good! I'm sad were close to the end :(
Sorry I was late! I fell asleep. Everything is posted.I rolled a 2 (ugh) and we are on Spot 66.
Headed back to New Orleans this morning. My new job starts in the morning - Yay!!! I'll check back later with my book.
I'm trying to figure out what you do after EIT :(
Well I'm going with 2011 and for JenneSpot 66:
Yay!!!!!That one is real good, book 2 you realize you're onto something great and book 3 it becomes an obsession lol.
Lol. I like Perry I'm about 15% in already.
I'll be reading the 6th Artemis Fowl book:
I'm so sorry for your loss, Jenne!!I'm still deciding - I'll probably read
which was published in 2011.
Lol that's what it feels like....Good luck at your new job Leslie!
Spot 66:
4 stars
10/20
Review:
Wow Dex is a psychopath. It was not a good idea to read this through the middle of the night. I liked it enough to want to read book two. I was confused by Perry being 22 and needing to think of lies to her parents. I'm guess I'm different at 22 I wasn't asking no permission lol. I was scared for a while. I knew something was up with Dex the entire way. He just rubbed the wrong way. I kept saying it was multiple personality disorders but it was bipolar disorder. I didn't like Ada but I could account it to her age
Mika promise me you'll read book 2 soon lol. Dex is very mysterious and creepy in this one. He's not really though and book 2 opens your eyes more. Book 2 the romantic tension becomes obvious and it will have you turning the pages lol. Perry's parents do have a weird hold on her. I think a lot of it stems from the trouble she was in, in her teens. In the next one, there's a scene where the two of them dance together and it'll melt your heart.
Jenne wrote: "Mika promise me you'll read book 2 soon lol. Dex is very mysterious and creepy in this one. He's not really though and book 2 opens your eyes more. Book 2 the romantic tension becomes obvious and i..."I will. I'm not sold on Dex yet as a person or a book boyfriend. Yeah I get what happened as a ten but they aren't treating her like an adult. They gotta let her make mistakes. I can't wait for the sexual tension.
They're not good to read late at night by yourself lol. Only 1/2 of them though are super creepy. The 8th one was the creepiest, I may have slept with one eye open the night I read it.
Oh Mika it's coming! The tension between the two of them, thoroughly messed me up. It'll have you inside out.
Lol oh I won't anymore. These are extremely day reads for me. I'll continue the series.
I had finished
and a storm knocked our power out later that night. I was kinda tripping lol.
Jenne wrote: "I had finished and a storm knocked our power out later that night. I was kinda tripping lol."Fucking bad omens lol.
I was reading at 3 o'clock in the morning listening to every sound in my house. I was so scared. In my head I kept saying Dex was either a ghost, psychopath, or a short murdering rapist lol. Only sunlight until 4 pm for reading this series.
Okay, now I'm going to have to read book 2!
Is it horrible that I want to reread them already. Just thinking about the dance scene again this morning since we were talking about it makes me smile.
Spot 66:Read Necrophobia by Jack Hamlyn
published 2011
Rating: ★★★
Review:
This was ok, not horrible but not great. I'm also coming down off one of the worst book highs I've ever had though. The way it's written is quite believable and the military/weapons were well researched. I didn't connect with the characters like I would of wanted to. Except for Tuck, he was great for a slightly crazy old man. I would want him at my back in the zombie apocalypse. I may read book 2 one day, just not in a super big hurry to do so.
I'm almost finished with my book. And I went ahead and picked up book 2 on Amazon. We'll see how it goes!
Spot 66
10/22/14 4★
Review:Pretty solid KA book. It had all the ingredients of her other series, including too much talk about what someone was wearing, what furniture they had in their house, and what car they were driving. But the characters were likeable and sexy and the storyline interesting. If she could just learn to finish a book!!
So no team can win on tomorrow's roll. I imagine Sunday will be a different story, just have to see where everyone is at. *crossing fingers* we roll big and others roll small lol. Edit: *knocks on wood* so I didn't just jinx us :D
Spot 66Read:
by Eoin ColferFinished: 10/22/14
Rating: 4 stars
Review: Time travel is a tricky business, not just for the characters who have to manoeuver around their past, but also for the writer who has to create a believable time traveling story. I'm very nitpicky about how time travel needs to be handled, but the author did an excellent job with the cyclical nature of time, how the past depends on the actions of the future and vice versa. Like all the other Artemis Fowl books, this one is packed with interesting technologies, action-packed storylines, and a good dose of humor.
Good job team! I still have to read my SS book for the week...
Okay team we rolled a freaking 5^^^, I honestly don't know what number we are playing to lol..Puts us at Spot 71!
Going to go with first in the series for me. Spot 71:
Good roll Mika! The alternate is set in France. We have to roll past 75 to win, so a 5 or higher will do the trick. Team 2 is at 74 so more than likely Sunday's roll will be the final one. *crossing fingers* we roll high.
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5 stars
10/16
Review:
Well damn maybe Lore can go in my favorite as well. I really enjoyed this one. I love the world that Ms. Ione builds. In this installment the boy's get to meet there two new siblings plus deal with a pesky person who won't go away. I like Idessa she was a really strong character.