R4: Seven Wonders of the Reading World (7)

[✿~Danielle~✿]

Okay Stella :)

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

okay I'll let you know now cause I'll feel bad if I can't make it on time, so I change my choice Protector of the Alpha

[Joeera]

ROLL 8 Spot 69


( no people on the cover ) ( r-f-Jan 7-8 )

5 stars

Review

This was my first readiñg a book by this author and this is one of my favorite books. I loved this book but,it was a really sad story i found it to be an original and outstanding story told i a very touching way and i thought it was a very powerful book.

[Marty]

FYI everyone - I've a few pages of my book to go yet, so I probably won't post until tomorrow morning.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

That's ok

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

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book with no people on cover

3 stars

I was so happy to finally start reading this book but it didn't really work for me. The first 120 pages were really slow and boring, while the last part was hasty and the story approximate. The ending resolved too quickly and without many troubles. One thing I liked is that it wasn't your usual shifter book. I liked the concept but it didn't live up the expectation. I'm still going to read the next one in this series.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

You managed to get it done Stella :D

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

✼Danielle✼ wrote: "You managed to get it done Stella :D"

I couldn't let you down! :D

[Marty]

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Title: The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths - Number 6 in the Ruth Galloway series
Finished: 1/8/15
Rating: 2 stars

Review:
This turned out to be a real soap opera rather than a good archaeological mystery. It was supposed to be about the discovery of a notorious 19th century child murderer known as Mother Hook as well as the investigation of a contemporary child murder. However, there's a bit too much of the "who's had a child with whom and is in love with whom but is married to someone else" melodrama. Add in the clashing beliefs of a Druid, an atheist, and other more conventional believers and you have a bit of a mess. The archaeological as well as the modern day mysteries end up being overshadowed, in my opinion. Another series that I doubt I'll continue reading.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

Stella ╰☆╮the Queen of Multitasking╰☆╮ wrote: "✼Danielle✼ wrote: "You managed to get it done Stella :D"

I couldn't let you down! :D"

:D:D:D

[✿~Danielle~✿]

Roll 9

I rolled a 7 (4 + 3) , so now on space 76

Options
☞ Book 7 in a series
☞ Book 6 in a series
☞ Book 76 in a series
☞ Book with a moon on cover

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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(Series: 7, 6, or alternate moon on cover )

| #7 | Danielle's review

| #7 | Allison Ann's review

| #6 | Joeera's review

| #6 | Marty's review

| moon on cover | Stella's review

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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#7

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

This is hard!

[✿~Danielle~✿]

I know lol sometimes I really don't know what I'll read.

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

danielle, I can't read this book (https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...) cause the moon is on the cover of the old edition, right?

[✿~Danielle~✿]

I think that as long as you link the edition with the moon in your review, you'd be okay. But I'm not 100% on that, you might want to check with Jenne to be sure.

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

ok I'll ask her. Thanks!

[Allison Ann]

I'll be reading by P.D. James - Adam Dalgliesh #7.

[Marty]

My choice for the week: Poppet, #6 in the Jack Caffery series.

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

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The Blue Moon Cafe

[Marty]

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Title: Poppet by Mo Hayder- Number 6 in the Jack Caffery
Finished: 1/14/15
Rating: 5 stars

Review:
I've always heard good things about Mo Hayder's mysteries, so it was a relief to know they were all right. She knows how to balance multiple characters and plots without turning it into a huge mess.

One plotline revolves around Isaac Handel, a former Beechway High Security Unit mental patient who killed his parents when he was 14, but who has since been released back into society. While he was in the hospital, AJ LeGrande, the senior nursing coordinator, is troubled by the strange mutilations and deaths of a few patients, all under very strange circumstances. AJ is so disturbed by the situation that he begins to have nightmares. He eventually brings the problem to Caffery, against the wishes of his lover, Melanie Arrow, who is the Beechway administrator and who has a great deal to lose if the situation becomes a police matter.

The second plot involves Misty Kitson, a young addict married to a footballer, who mysterious disappeared one night 18 months ago. Her mother is putting pressure on Jack's unit to find her daughter, but Jack's superior wants the case to go away. Caffery, it turns out, knows what's happened to Misty but is protecting a colleague who has inadvertently became suspect #1. He needs to close the case, but he also feels compelled to do so in such a way as to avoid implicating this colleague.
I thought it was a great novel - I tend to like my mysteries dark and chilling and this one certainly delivered on that. I'll go back and read 1-5 in the series now!

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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#7



Read: 11/01/15
Rating: 4 stars

Review
I've spend the last few days reading all the books in this series. This is the last I have to read. I have really enjoyed them. The world and the characters have been good. Like the relationships between the Knights and dragons. I do believe there is a new one to come out at some point.

[Joeera]

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#6 ( blood singer series ) ( r-f-Jan 13-14 )


5 stars

Review

This book was an amazing out of this world thrill ride i loved it. The story involes a long standing blood feud,a major family crisis and a messed up love life. She also manges to forgive herself for not being able to save her sister when they were children and that is excualty what her sister need from her so that she could move on.

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

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3 stars

More like 2,5 stars round up. This book simply wasn't for me. Some parts were sweet, but most of it was boring and repetitive. I figured out who the killer was from the start. I loved Jared more than the MCs. And the ending? *screaming* (view spoiler)[I need a HEA or at least a HFN. (hide spoiler)] Still, I think it deserves a sequel.

[Allison Ann]

ROLL #9, SPOT #76
Series: Adam Dalgliesh #7

by P.D. James

Book: A Taste For Death
Series: #7
Date finished: 01/14/15
Rating: 3 stars
Review: This book runs a bit longer than previous James novels and could probably have been cut down a bit, but the mystery itself is wonderful and well written. I do love P.D. James and her wonderfully complex Adam Dalgliesh, plus bonus the introduction of Kate Miskin. Great book, glad to be re-reading some of these classic mysteries.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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I rolled a 6 (5 + 1) , so now on space 82

Options
☞ Book 8 in a series
☞ Book 2 in a series
☞ Book 76 in a series
☞ Book title starting with letter I

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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(Series: 8, 2, or alternate title I )

| #2 | Danielle's review

| #2 | Allison Ann's review

| letter I | Joeera's review

| #2 | Marty's review

| #2 | Stella's review

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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#2

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

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Book 2 in a series

[Allison Ann]

I have a bunch of #2 in series to read, so now I just have to pick one. Decisions, decisions! :)

[Marty]

For this round, Ottoman Cage by Barbara Nadel, #2 in the Inspector Ikmen series.

[Allison Ann]

Started reading tonight, so that will be my pick - The Bronze Horseman #2.

[Allison Ann]

ROLL #10, SPOT #82
Series: The Bronze Horseman #2

by Paullina Simons

Book: Tatiana and Alexander
Series: #2
Date finished: 01/21/15
Rating: 2.5 stars
Review: I very much enjoyed the first 460 pages of the book and absolutely hated the last 100 pages. I just have such trouble relating to this as a romance novel. The sections with Alexander in the war were very interesting. Tatiana escaping Russia and living on Ellis Island and in New York - excellent. Tatiana and Alexander coming back together.... nightmare. It's just not my idea of love when people bring out the worst in each other and yell and hurt each other. He's a bully, she's a martyr, some people call it passion, I call it violence and I have no desire to read it. I hate leaving a series unfinished, but I think I'll need a long break before I can stomach any more of these two idiots.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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#2



Read: 21/01/15
Rating: 3 stars

This is my second book by Laura Florand and I just don't think they are for me. They are certainly not bad books and I don't know what it is, but i just can't get into the stories.

[Joeera]

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( letter I ) ( r-f-Jan 21-22 )

5 Stars

Review

If i stay is a journey through life and death in the eyes of a young girl who has lost just about everything. This book is one of the endearing and wreching storys i've ever read. Rhe story is about Mia and tokd from her point of view and that is why i found it heart-breaking and gorgeoys. The reason this book is such a emontuonal crucher ia bwcause of the syperb writting skills of Forman I lived this book.

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

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Rating 4 stars

Another amazing book in this series. Loved the story, the MCs, everything about it. I don't know why I thought there would be a new couple as MCs, but it was great to deal with Dex craziness again.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

I love this series Stella.

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

✼Danielle✼ wrote: "I love this series Stella."

me too but I'm behind. I have to read the third one next week

[Marty]

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Title: Ottoman Cage by Barbara Nadel
Finished: 1/22/15
Rating: 3 stars

Review
I didn't enjoy my choice this week as much as I hoped to. I guess I just loved the edginess of Poppet so much last week, this novel seemed a little bit slow and stodgy by comparison. The hard drinking, tough main character who also manages to finesse his way through sticky situations, the setting being in Turkey, the social and historical tensions that still exist there between Turks and Armenians - all of that was fascinating. It just seemed like it took this mystery a long time to unfold.

The plot started out well. A young man is discovered dead in an apartment whose mysterious owner is nowhere to be found. There's no evidence of foul play and initially it looks like just another junkie who's overdosed. However, lab tests reveal that there's no evidence of narcotic abuse, despite the needle marks pepper the corpse's arms and legs. Detective Cetin Ikmen and his team then suspect kidnapping and sexual abuse - but again, there's no evidence of violence.

Stranger yet, Ikmen is receiving crystal figurines in the mail which he believes are linked to the young man's death somehow. If that's not enough to make him drink, he's also dealing with drama at home - a senile father, a wife suffering from endometriosis, nine kids and sexual tension between two of his team members.

I liked the descriptions of contemporary Istanbul. The author manages to describe enough of the city scenes without turning it into a travelogue. She also doesn't turn this into a soap opera or a commentary on Turkish politics or racism, which it very well could have. I'll probably give this series another chance.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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I rolled a 9 (6 + 3) , so now on space 91

Options
☞ Book 9 in a series
☞ Book 1 in a series
☞ Standalone
☞ Book by author K

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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(Series: 9, 1, or standalone or alternate author K)

| author K | Danielle's review

| standalone | Allison Ann's teview

| author K | Joeera's review

| standalone | Marty's review

| standalone | Stella

[✿~Danielle~✿]

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Author K

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

Danielle,I put I'll Be Your Drill, Soldier in my Current reading list but I haven't start it yet. Can I use it or do I need to pick something else?

[✿~Danielle~✿]

Stella ╰☆╮the Queen of Multitasking╰☆╮ wrote: "Danielle,I put I'll Be Your Drill, Soldier in my Current reading list but I haven't start it yet. Can I use it or do I need to pick something else?"

I think as long as you hadn't started it before the roll, it should be fine for you to read.

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

✼Danielle✼ wrote: "Stella ╰☆╮the Queen of Multitasking╰☆╮ wrote: "Danielle,I put I'll Be Your Drill, Soldier in my Current reading list but I haven't start it yet. Can I use it or do I need to pick som..."

great, thanks!

[Stella ╰☆╮╰☆╮]

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Standalone

[Allison Ann]

I'll be reading a standalone - The Whip by Catherine Cookson.

[Marty]

I'll take the standalone option too.
The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout

[Marty]

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Title: The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout - 1/24/15, standalone option.
Rating: Five stars

Review:
I wanted to read the book before I saw the Tommy Lee Jones movie of same name. This, obviously, was a very quick read. I could hardly put it down. The story takes place in 1850s Nebraska territory. Four women in the area of the fictitious town of Loup have got crazy. The local minister arranges to have them transported back to Iowa where they will cared for until their families back east can claim them.

When none of the woman's husbands are equal to the task, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, an unmarried former school teacher and successful farmer. Mary is bossy, independent and "plain as a tin pail." She's also extremely lonely. Realizing that she likely can't manage the four women on her own, she takes on a claim jumper she saves from hanging. He gives him name as George Briggs, likely false, and agrees to help her for the sum of three hundred dollars.

The group faces hostile Native Americans, criminals and freezing winter conditions. Although Mary and Briggs initially find traveling together less than pleasant, and understanding eventually grows between them. Even thought the women are safely delivered to the Iowa preacher and his wife, who are charged with caring for them, the ending is both tragic and ambivalent. I'm hoping that the movie adaptation is as good.