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Dec 05, 2014 11:35AM
I'll do a 'D' author and read Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Spot 35
(Stage Dive #3) by Kylie ScottFinished 12/7/14
5 stars
My very favorite rockstars. I'm in love with all of them. Even the self centered, arrogant and damaged lead singer Jimmy.
Great banter, great chemistry and absolutely wonderful easy humor in all the books in this series.
Well if she doesn't surface in the next few days, I'm going to assume something came up. If that's the case y'all will get your free pass back and we'll get a back up player.
#3 in a series
Read:09/12/14
Rated: 3 stars
Review:It wasnt as good as the first two. For me, the series could have ended either at the end of the first book or the second. I didnt like the whole marrige thing. He cheats on her and then not an hour after they make-up he asks her to marry him? Conrad was okay in this book. I got really annoyed with Jere sometimes. We all new they weren't getting married... It was a little predictable. I really liked the end though.
I'm not sure, but it looks like we have lost a team member. Bummer. Has anyone heard from siriusedward?
What a shame :-( I wonder what that will mean for this week? Will we still be able to roll?My book coming shortly...
I think it will just be based on our reviews, but we can roll. I think Jenne will have to find us a replacement player.
I hope its OK, but I changed my book. This was quicker to get through!#5 in a series
by Patricia CornwellKay Scarpetta #5
Finished: 11 Dec 14
Rating: ★★★★
I am sure I have read this book several times, but that didn't stop me from enjoying it again. I like the Scarpetta series in small doses. This one is about a murder which occurred in North Carolina which appears to be the work of Scarpetta's early nemesis, Temple Gault. Kay's niece, Lucy gets involved and (as usual) Kay's life is threatened. Pete Marino was especially annoying in this book, but in general, I really enjoyed it.
That's right Hina. I'm hunting one done lol. If any of you have a friend in mind, let me know :)
Team Vicious and DeliciousRoll 4 Spot 35
Book:
The Duke Diaries by Sophia Nash. Date Read: 12/9/14
Rating: 4 Stars
Theme: Book 3 in Royal Entourage Series
Review:
This is a continuation of the Royal Entourage series and all of books in the series started at the same time the morning of Duke of Candover's wedding except the prince's entourage made up of all the dukes are not to be found because they all got drunk the night before and this series captures what happens the morning after. This story is about Rory, the Duke of Abshire who wakes up in Verity Fitzroy's bed who happens to be Duke Candover's sister. The best part about the book is that Verity does not simply say yes but Rory actually has to work for it and we can see how he slowly falls in love with Verity. Both of them have secrets and it is frustrating because we spend so much time in the build up, only to find that it really was not as big as it was being made out to be. In the end, Verity seems to not act smart and it was annoying to see a good heroine do that. The ending felt kind of rushed to me and these things kept me from giving it a 5 stars. But it is definitely a favorite of mine. I love this series so far.
Team Vicious and DeliciousWeek 4 Team Reviews
NancyHelen - The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell. Review
Petya - We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han. Review
Skandia - Lead by Kylie Scott. Review
Hina - The Duke Diaries by Sophia Nash. Review
okay we are ready for our next roll...:)
okay I rolled 5+6 = 11 which puts us on spot 46. So you can read book 4 or book 6 in a series. OR a book from the 3 Star Shelf
I'll read
by Rob Thomas 2 people shelved it as 3-star, page 33
I'm going to read
from the 3-star shelf
The alternate - 3-star shelf
Read:16/12/14
Rated: 5 stars
Review:I really liked it and I didnt think I would. I dont know why but I was always reluctant to read it but now I'm glad that I did. There were so many things that just... shocked me I guess. For instance, they didnt see color, or dont have wind and sunshine and snow and all those little things that we love. When we find out what the release is, and that Jonas father did it to that baby and then wanted to do it to Gabe... man...
I cant wait to read the rest of the series.
I finished my book...I should have my review up tomorrow.
I'm almost done with mine. I'll finish before it's time to roll.
Team Vicious and DeliciousRoll 5 Spot 46
Book:
Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood.Date Read: 12/15/14
Rating: 3 Stars
Theme: Book 6 in Buchanan-Renard Series
Review:
I have been waiting for Noah Clayborne's book since the first book in the series when he was first introduced and I had high expectations for it, but after reading Shadow Dance I was really disappointed in the lack of romance in the book. Jordan Buchanan teased by Noah about her regimented life, impulsively decides to go to Texas to investigate an age old feud between the MacKennas and the Buchanans. The trip wasn't as cut and dry as Jordan hoped to be but rather found a dead body in the trunk of her car and herself as a prime suspect. Noah and Nick, her brother come to help her out of the mess, but the dead bodies keep turning up in her trunk. Now Noah and Jordan are trying to solve the mystery. This definitely had good suspense, but the romance was really lacking. One minute they think of each other as friends, there is a slight reference to when they were young and were attracted to each other but they did nothing and the next they are in love. There was no build up of their feelings, or why now are they falling for each other. For Noah being such a player and a revolving door on women, there isn't much as to why both of them fall for each other. It just felt love by proximity, and I would have really liked it more if the author spent more time in showing the romance happening between the two.
I'm still finishing up mine (it is absolutely brilliant - I am loving it) so I'll also post before its time to roll. Skandia, will you try and roll at midnight?
Just a reminder:Teams will roll on Friday (12/19) two times for two spots. No roll on 12/26. Both book's deadline will be 1/2 and then the game resumes it's normal schedule.
If you feel you won't be able to manage either holiday's rolls that's ok. Just let your team know and you can skip those rolls without penalizing the team.
NancyHelen wrote: "I'm still finishing up mine (it is absolutely brilliant - I am loving it) so I'll also post before its time to roll. Skandia, will you try and roll at midnight?"Oh I cried reading Kite Runner. If you get a chance, you should read A Thousand Splendid Suns if you haven't. I am going to be reading And the Mountains Echoed soon.
I have read all Khaled Hosseini books and they are brilliant. A Thousand Splendid Suns is probably my favorite.
Spot 46
by Rob Thomas 2 people shelved it as 3-star, page 33
Finished 12/18/14
2 stars
Veronica Mars, now 28-years old, is back at her hometown Neptune, California, and working as a PI in his fathers agency.
During a spring break two young party girls went missing and as this is bad for business in town, local Chamber of Commerce hires Veronica to find the girls.
I was expecting so much more. The story just didn't grab me and the mystery was weakish.
Hina wrote: "NancyHelen wrote: "I'm still finishing up mine (it is absolutely brilliant - I am loving it) so I'll also post before its time to roll. Skandia, will you try and roll at midnight?"Oh I cried read..."
I have read both of them and loved them. In fact And the Mountains Echoed is now one of my favourite books of all time. I can't believe it has taken me this long to read The Kite Runner. It was absolutely brilliant. Khaled Hosseini has an ability to create character which is second to none. I think what I liked most about the book was just how flawed the narrator, Amir, was and how he found a way to overcome his own cowardice and selfishness. What an amazing book.
by Khaled HosseiniFinished: 18 Dec 14
Rating: ★★★★★
I think all our reviews are in. Should I roll or wait for Hina to do the rolling and posting?
You can do it if you want..I just logged in...or I can do it in a couple of mins.
No problems, Hina. Just go ahead and roll!
Team Vicious and DeliciousWeek 5 Team Reviews
NancyHelen - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Review
Petya - The Giver by Lois Lowry. Review
Skandia - The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas. Review
Hina - Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood. Review
Roll 1: I rolled 4 + 5 = 9 which moves us to spot 55, which means book 5 in the series OR the alternative is to read a book cover with a animal(s).Roll 2: I rolled 5 + 2 = 7 which moves us to spot 62, which means read either book 2 or book 6 in the series OR the alternative is to read a book cover item: Furniture.
Remember, both books needs to be finished by January 2nd, if someone can't do it for whatever reasons, can you let me or Jenne know so the whole team does not get penalized. Thanks!
For roll 55 I'm going to read
as the alternate - book cover with an animalFor roll 62 I'm going to read
#2 in series
For roll #62 I'll read The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr.I'm still a bit stumped with the other one though, so I might have to come back later with that one.
For the other one, I'll read
which has a horse on the cover. I hope its OK!
NancyHelen wrote: "For the other one, I'll read which has a horse on the cover. I hope its OK!"I can see the horse.
Btw, this is one of my older favorites. Maybe even my very favorite among Russian lit books. I hope you like it too!
Very dark read for the holidays , though :)
Roll 55:
- book cover with an animalRead: 25/12/14
Rated: 3 stars
Review: I'm still waiting for a Maggie Stiefvater boom to amaze me. I didnt go into this book with high expectations and it was exactly like I thought it would be. There were some parts of the book when I was asking myself why, and what but there were some really cool moments too. Like at the end when Dee faced the Queen and stuff.
There was this moment in the book that looked really serious but was never addressed again. When she overhears Luke talking to someone about 'screwing' her and she left hurt but it was never again mentioned. Why?
I seriously believed that the aunt was going to help her but... I guess not.
Overall, it was exactly what I thought it would be but I still hoped it would be better.
I'm switching my book for spot 62 with
- #2 in series
Spot 55
(BDB #5) by J.R.Wardfinished 29/12/14
3,5 stars
I don't know if I can blame the busy holiday season or am I in a serious reading slump but this BDB book just didn't do it for me. I didn't feel the connection between V and Jane like I felt with Z and Bella or Butch and Marissa. Jane was just cold and the ending was weird with the ghost business and all.
I enjoyed most the parts about V's childhood and it was very surprising to learn about his parents.
There was almost no action between Brothers and Lessers in this book. I know I'm in a big minority but I kind of missed those bastards with their twisted minds.
I do enjoy this series but what comes to similar series, I do prefer Lara Adrian's Midnight Breeds.
Spot 62 - #2 in a series - The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle HodkinRead: 29/12/14
Rated: 5stars
Review:Aaahh, I want a movie or series soooo baad. It was as good as the first one if not better. It was also a lot darker than the last one. Now Mara was trying to look ok but things were getting a lot worse. Daniel rocked again and I wanted Mara to tell him everything she and Noah were doing and... ahhh. Now Noah was a little annoying in this book. It looked like he was keeping secrets and I didnt like how he didnt trust Mara sometimes, well he trusted her at the end (wink,wink). I dont believe he is dead for one second. To have the only person who dies to have the abilitty to heal himself and then write that he is dead... yeah, I dont buy it.
I really didnt expect Jamie to have a power and it was really cool.
Phoebe was creeping me out. She was so weird and like "I fixed your eyes" and stuff. I immidiatly knew that Jude was her boyfriend. It was so obvious.
I didnt expect the doctor to be monitoring and watching what Mara and, I assume, the others did. When they saw the video tape of her in her house and what they were talking...
I'm really intrigued with the memory of her past self? Is it reincarnation? I dont know.
Overall, I really liked it and... one piece of advice... dont read it alone in the dark at two am...
Spot #55With an animal on the cover
by Fyodor DostoyevskyRead: 30.12.14
Rating: 4.5 stars (if only I could give that!)
This was actually a good 4.5 stars. It was a fantastic story and it really moved along. There is no doubt that it got tough to read at times and there were pages of dense internal and external monologues which got tiresome, but never once did I get bored with the story. The psychology and the internal contradictions of Raskolnikov were so interesting. I loved how he teetered on madness the whole way through the book and you were never quite sure what was real. I have a working knowledge of Russian, enough to know that although the translation was great, something is definitely lost in this book when you read it in the English. Possibly my greatest regret about my early University years was that I didn't stick at Russian as this is one book I think would be worth the trouble in the original. But it is definitely a book I'd go back to.
Spot #62#2 in a Series
by John Dickson CarrFinished: 20.12.14
Rating: 4 stars
#2 of the Dr Gideon Fell series
Nodding to the tradition of Agatha Christie, this is the second in the Dr Gideon Fell series of mysteries. It was a good fun read, with a murder occurring and being solved in the space of a day by the rotund but sharp Dr Fell and his colleagues. I have never read any of this series before but I really enjoyed it. This one was written in 1933, but it was an easy read and, although it differs greatly from today's crime fiction, it kept me guessing.
NancyHelen wrote: "Spot #55With an animal on the cover
by Fyodor DostoyevskyRead: 30.12.14
Rating: 4.5 stars..."
SO glad you enjoyed this book. It is one of my favorites. I first read it in high school and it was a major influence in my decision to study psychology in college. I've read it again since and still love it.
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