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R11: Team Super Sixers (6)
Awesome roll Elena, I'm loving all the 1's!I'm happy to pick up the Halloween bonus.
Week 9 Selection PostSpot 71
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
Series Kate Daniels #1
Halloween Bonus: MPG Fantasy >Urban Fantasy and Paranormal
Sorry y'all. I was on my way back from the grandbaby's house. I've never been this bad on team challenges. Thanks for rolling and I'm good with whatever y'all decide as far as when you want to use those points.
Week 9 Selection postSpot 71
He Speaks Dead by Adrienne Wilder
Pages: 260
How it fits: Standalone
Was To slow to get it but mine is paranormal also if Jen decides to read something else as I am also reading it for SSS.
Week 9 Selection postSpot 71
He Speaks Dead by Adrienne Wilder
Pages: 260
How it fits: Standalone
Read: 10/25/19
rated 3 stars
review: OK this is a complicated book. you have to keep track of the characters First there is Ethan, the ghost; Charlie, the medium; and Daniel, the detective. There is a complicated relationship as Charlie loves Ethan then when they meet He also falls for Daniel and Daniel doesn't believe in ghosts or people who can speak to the dead. They are all caught up in a murder Investigation that has at least three people dead, and at first Daniel believed that charlie was the murderer. Now what Charlie did to have sex with Ethan was he would hookup with a man and before there was sex, Ethan would possess that man. Charlie would still do that even after he hooked up with Daniel. too much like cheating for my liking. The ending (view spoiler) felt too much like a cop out on the author's part.
Completion PostWeek 9
Spot 71
The Perfect Wife by J.P. Delaney
How it qualifies: Stand Alone
Date finished: 10/26/2019
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Review: Abbie wakes up from a dream. Everything hurts. She's not sure why. She assumes she's in a hospital. She sees her husband, crying. He assures her their son is alright. He explains there is something difficult he has to explain and she needs to know right away. From there I was hooked and couldn't put this book down.
This book had me trying to solve the puzzle along with Abbie. I've read JP Delaney's other books. This is my favorite.
Completion PostWeek 9
Spot 71
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
How it qualifies: Kate Daniels #1
Date finished: 10/27/2019
Rating: 4 stars
Review: Fun, action packed, kick butt female lead and so many aspects to still figure out. I look forward to the reading the next one. Glad I finally got the motivation to start this series.
MPG: Urban Fantasy and Paranormal
@ Shelley, check your completion date. Somehow it's still October :)PS totally want to read your book now, what does she need to know???
Completion PostWeek 9
Spot 71
Stand alone
Book: Seducing Simon
Author: Maya Banks
Pages:211
Date Read: 28 October
Rating: 4 Stars
How it qualifies: # 18 on Review:
Toni can't seem to get a break. She has been in love with Simon her best friend and room mate for ever. She has been living with her brother and his two best friends, but she has been in the friend and little sister zone forever. She finally gets her chance when Simon breaks up with his girlfriend. Now she is pregnant and Simon does not remember that night. She is in a difficult position as she could loose her brother and her best friends.
selection postweek #9 spot 71
Book: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
how it fits: Stand alone book
Mama's Completion Post
Week 9 ~ Spot 71
Book ~ Mine Till Midnight 5* ✔️ 10/28
How it qualifies: #1 of The Hathaways Series
Review ~ This was my 2nd Read of this book. I loved it the first time. This time, I FLOOOVVVEED IT! Cam is just so Dreamy. I love all Lisa Kleypas Heroes but this ReRead he Def made the top of the list!
He's just so dreamy!
Lawd have mercy, he can butta my biscuit Any. Day. Of. Da. Week!!!
Jen K wrote: "@ Shelley, check your completion date. Somehow it's still October :)PS totally want to read your book now, what does she need to know???"
Jen K wrote: "@ Shelley, check your completion date. Somehow it's still October :)
PS totally want to read your book now, what does she need to know???"
Opps. Thanks. Without spoiling, this is a twist or update on an older story.
Completion postWeek 9 Spot 71
Book: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
How it fits: Stand Alone book
Finished: 10/30/2019
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Aiden has to solve and prevent Evelyn's murder to get out of the neverending repeating day. He keeps repeating the same day in the bodies of different people. It is a strange book and takes a little getting used to. There is a bit of a surprise at the end.
Just realized whoever rolled forgot to post our spot, so I posted it really quick.Week #9 Spot Posted
Headed to bed. Will ck again in the morning & either I can roll after Elena makes her posting or someone else can roll. I'm good either way.
Thanks, Mama!I'll be done with my book shortly, sorry it's taking me a while, guys!
Completion
Week #9
Spot: 71
Book: Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag
Qualification: 1st in Kovac and Liska series
Finished: Nov 1
Rating: ★★★1/5
Review:
First book in the series and it's a pretty good start. A little too long maybe and pretty gruesome in places, but interesting plot, great characters and it kept me guessing till the end who the murderer is!
Side note: wow, reading a book written and set 20 years ago really brings to mind how far and fast technology has come!
Okay, all done! Thanks for waiting, everyone!Mama, feel free to roll if you're around, and if not, I will once I'm done with the links :)
Team Super Sixers (6) Weekly Report:Week #9
Previous Spot: 61
Current Spot: 71 - standalone, book #7 in the series, book #1 in series, book #71 in the series/ alt. - Title F
✔ Dale - Seducing Simon (Standalone) | Review
✔ Elena - Ashes to Ashes (Kovac and Liska, #1) | Review
✔ Jen K - Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1) | Review
✔ Joyce - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Standalone) | Review
✔ Mamacita wants a Bedtime Story - Mine Till Midnight (The Hathaways, #1) | Review
✔ Roger - president of NBR United - He Speaks Dead (Standalone) | Review
✔ Shelley - The Perfect Wife (Standalone) | Review
Bonus: 1 point earned for reading a Horror/Paranormal/Urban Fantasy book for the roll on 10/25 - Magic Bites read by Jen K
Okay, new roll!Previous Spot: 71
Week 10 Roll: 6+5 = 11(!!!)
New Spot: 82
Options:
Book #2 in series
Book #8 in series
Book #82 in series
Alternate - 82. Cover Item: Building
You are still really rocking these rolls!! I really wanted to read a #2 book this weekend. Thanks for making it happen!
Jen K wrote: "You are still really rocking these rolls!! I really wanted to read a #2 book this weekend. Thanks for making it happen!"Yeah you are!
Awesome roll!
Week 10Spot #82
The Queen Con by Meghan Scott Molin
How it qualifies: The Golden Arrow #2
Date finished: 11/3/2019
Rating: 3 stars
Review: MG and her chosen family of friends and coworkers are forced to focus and help solve additional Golden Arrow related crimes. I love MG's independent knowing of herself and push to include a social justice and gender equitable agenda in the comic book/ superhero world and I love the drag queens!! There were cool new character additions which seemed to disappear at times but solid second book in the series.
Selection PostWeek 10
Book: Jason
Author: Kathi Barton
Pages: 151
How it qualifies: Buildings on the cover
Mama's Completion Post
Week 10 ~ Spot 82
Book ~ Up in Smoke 4* ✔️ 10/5
Pages ~ Kindle Edition, 358 pages
How it qualifies: #8 of King Series
Review ~ 4* it was good & Smoke was Def hot. Either I'm remembering it wrong, or there is a plot hole. I thought when Frankie was a kid, I thought she did an errand for her dad and met smoke. If I'm correct, neither one of them remembered it nor was it mentioned. The book also didn't go into detail about how they found what they found. I wanted the Deets on that. I loved getting a glimpse @ all the gang! Especially Rage! That chick cracks me up. I wish we would have gotten a bigger glimpse of nine since his book is next. I know we got more of him and preppies book but I still feel like he's a stranger. But not stranger then Prep. LOL nobody stranger than Prep or Rage! Haha. See what I did there?
Completion post Week 10Spot 82
Island Counselor by Sue Brown
pages: 200
Qualification: Island Medics #2
Read 11/4/19
Rated 4 Stars
Review: Logan has been hiding in his cottage at the Isle of Wight for four months after a traumatic event at his practice in London left him suffering from PTSD, but when he finds Nick on the beach after he forced himself to collapse, they forge a friendship heavily laced with attraction, that might just be what they both need.
I loved both Logan and Nick. Their chemistry and the easy way in which they both fit in each other lives was just amazing, but what was truly outstanding was their banter, I couldn't get enough of that!
All in all, a fabulous, very enjoyable read, full of emotions, humor and enough angst and suspense to keep things very interesting, with a fantastic array of characters, both main and supporting, that made this into one hell of a book!
Highly recommended!
Completion PostWeek 10 spot 82
book: Bride and Gloom: Sometimes Love Is Better Off Blind by Pete Sortwell
Pages: 230 kindle edition
Finished: 11/6/2019
How it fits: Book 2 in Sometimes love series
Rating: 4 stars
Review
Emma and Jason are going to get married. The trouble is Jason's friends. They are always getting into some kind of scrape or another. Jason's friends decide to give him a stag party weekend and Jason just wants to rest and wait to get married. Jason is 4'10" and Emma is beautiful and blind so Jason is always thinking she's going to dump him.
I listened to this on audible and the narrator does a great job. It was a funny cute story.
Joyce wrote: "Completion PostWeek 10 spot 82
book: Bride And Gloom: sometimes love is better off blind. by Pete Sortwell
Finished: 11/6/2019
How it fits: Book 2 in Sometimes lov..."
Joyce, can you please verify page count for the edition you've read? Edition on GR you linked is 136 pages long but the Amazon page of the same edition lists it as 230 pages. I wouldn't have asked but books under 140 pages don't qualify for this challenge so it would be good to have it sorted out and, if it's a mistake on GR's part, hopefully correct it :)
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Completion
Week #10
Spot: 82
Book: Dust To Dust by Tami Hoag
Qualification: 2nd in Kovac and Liska series
Finished: Nov 5
Rating: ★★★
Review:
When a Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop is found hung in his own home, everyone assumes suicide or a tragic accident and higher-ups move quickly to have the case closed as soon as possible. But things don't look right to Kovac and Liska and they start digging.
I liked this installment less than the other two I've read in this series. The whodunit part was fairly easy to figure out, plus it features some outdated views on homosexuality which may have seemed tolerable twenty years ago but wouldn't pass in this day and age. Nevertheless it's a solid mystery, Tami Hoag writes very well, and Kovac's and Liska's (my favourite characters in the book) friendship/partnership is goals. Will read more.
Bonus: One point earned for reading three or more books in a series - Kovac and Liska series - Book 5, Book 1, Book 2
Denise wrote: "GR has two editions listed, the Kindle edition with 136 pages and paperback with 230 - just change the link to the paperback edition and you're good. :)"Oh, that's an easy fix! Thanks, Denise! :)
Elena wrote: "Joyce wrote: "Completion PostWeek 10 spot 82
book: Bride And Gloom: sometimes love is better off blind. by Pete Sortwell
Finished: 11/6/2019
How it fits: Book 2 in..."
Says she listen to the audio. Don't we use the Kindle version for audio? And gr does have it wrong.
Amazon has kindle @ 230 pages.
https://www.amazon.com/Bride-Gloom-so...
We can use the paperback edition (230 p.), so we're good! Joyce, do you mind swapping editions in your review post? Or if not, I can make a note when I do links :)
Elena wrote: "We can use the paperback edition (230 p.), so we're good! Joyce, do you mind swapping editions in your review post? Or if not, I can make a note when I do links :)"
okay I thought I had oops. That's the one I marked read in my book list jut put the wrong one in the listing
Shelly & Dale, will ya'll be finished today? Wondering if I need to stay up tonight to roll. Or if ya'll want Elena to roll as she is bad ass right now in rolling.
Completion PostWeek 10
Spot 82
Finished 11/7/19
One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline
How it fits: Alt - buildings on cover
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Review: Chris is the new teacher and assistant coach at Central Valley High School. From the beginning you find out everything about Chris is a lie. He plans to choose and cultivate one of the male students. He will not be in Central Valley longer than 2 weeks. Why is he lying? What is his plan? Just when you think you know, there's a twist.
Mamacita wrote: "Shelly & Dale, will ya'll be finished today? Wondering if I need to stay up tonight to roll. Or if ya'll want Elena to roll as she is bad ass right now in rolling."Sorry. For some reason I thought today was Thursday!
Shelley wrote: "Mamacita wrote: "Shelly & Dale, will ya'll be finished today? Wondering if I need to stay up tonight to roll. Or if ya'll want Elena to roll as she is bad ass right now in rolling."Sorry. For so..."
No Problem!
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Has anybody heard from Dale? Elena might want to PM. She hasn't been on GR for a few days. I know a she got sick for a bit. Elena you can also ask what we do if a member doesn't show.
Hope Dale is okay! The game will probably be over this week anyhow. Other teams will possibly be able to reach 100 with their bonus points We were close!
Mod
I hope Dale will check in soon. Either way, you can roll again on Friday as usual. It'll likely be the last roll of the game, as several teams are in the 90s this week, but I hope you'll be wanting to see it through to the end regardless. :)
I sent a PM, hopefully we'll hear from Dale soon!
No word yet? Hope Dale's okay!Should we roll???
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✸ One point can be earned for reading three or more books in a series - if I remember right, Roger has read 2 of the THIRDS series. Perhaps, one more, Roger? :) Or does anyone else has a series they're working on? And if not, I think I can squeeze in two more Poirot books :)
✸ One point can be earned for never picking a book from the alternate lists. This point is awarded when your team rolls past 90 - I believe at least a few of us are still in the running :)
✸ Halloween Bonus: One point can be earned for reading a Horror/Paranormal/Urban Fantasy book for the roll on 10/25 - that's this week! Anyone interested?