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Week 7 completion post
328 pages
Finished on 4/25/2020
Ratimg: 4 stars
Review: Loved this book. It was a book about healing of two people and a little girl. I csnt wait for the next book to come out.
Selection post - Week #8Option 1: Snow storm - read a book set in autumn or winter from one of the following lists
Rocky Mountain Cowboy Christmas
Author: Katie Ruggle
Page numbers: 416
How the book qualifies: #20 on Fatal Chill-Romantic Suspense Set In Winter And Cold
Selection Post - Week #8Option 2 - Key date - 25 October 2019
A book on your team mates 'read' list AND rated at least 3 stars and read on or after the key date.
Book: The Professional by Kresley Cole
Pages: 401
Qualifies: Himanshi read for the challenge on 3/31 and rated 4 stars
Completion PostWeek #7
My Little SecretRating: 3 stars
Review: The book was okay, nothing too exciting. To put it bluntly, I found it boring. It was a typical 'good girl meets bad boy' book. Honestly, I was more interested in Eddi's, the female MC's cousin, and Anto's, the male MC's best friend, relationship. I was hoping they'll get their own book but I don't think that's gonna happen.
Selection PostWeek #8
Three Mages and a MargaritaAuthor: Annette Marie
Pages: 312
Qualification: BarbaraAnn read it on January 7, 2020 and rated 4 stars
Christy wrote: "Selection Post - Week #8Option 2 - Key date - 25 October 2019
A book on your team mates 'read' list AND rated at least 3 stars and read on or after the key date.
Book: [book:The Professional|1755..."
Oo, I hope you like it! <3
Completion Post - Week #8Option 1: Snow storm - read a book set in autumn or winter from one of the following lists
Rocky Mountain Cowboy Christmas
Author: Katie Ruggle
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: The book was good. I enjoyed the book, until the final plot twist, I didn't like how two main leads, Steve and Katie, handled the consequence of the twist, so it ruined the end of the book for me. The romance between Steve and Katie was cute. Book had a few adorable moments between tow them. Steve is a single father of four children. I liked how Steve and Katie interacted with Steve's kids.
Completion post - week 8Not a Hero by Cherise Sinclair
Rating - *****
Review
I really enjoyed this book and plan to keep going with the series. The series is a spinoff from the Shadowlands series, but there isn't much of a connection. Gage is an ex-soldier living in Alaska with his foster brothers. The brothers were taken to Alaska as children and lived off the grid with a survivalist. Audrey came to the area because she was running from a maniac who had attacked her. Gage and his brothers were interesting but Audrey was the star - she grew so much throughout the story and she truly shined.
THIS SELECTION CHANGED - SEE NOTE #167 FOR CORRECTED SELECTION POSTSelection post - Week 9
Option 1:
15. Dust/Sand storm - read a book that has been on your TBR for more than 1 year OR read a book written before 1 January 2010.
Strange Fortune by Josh Lanyon
Pages - 313
How it qualifies - Book was written in 2009
Selection post - Week #9Option 1: Dust/Sand storm - read a book that has been on your TBR for more than 1 year OR read a book written before 1 January 2010.
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Page numbers: 279
How the book qualifies: The book was written between 1796 and 1797
Selection PostWeek 9
Option 1
Dance with Me by Alexis Daria
Pages: 308 (GR)
Qualification: Shelved July 22, 2018 (GR)
Milica wrote: "Selection post - Week #9Option 1: Dust/Sand storm - read a book that has been on your TBR for more than 1 year OR read a book written before 1 January 2010.
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Reading Jane Austen while social distancing is perfect! I recently read [book:Persuasion|2156] while stuck at home (still stuck at home, actually) and I had a greater appreciation for it. Why? This Guardian article, "Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown as given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines,'" articulates it so well!
Completion PostWeek #8
Three Mages and a MargaritaRating: 4 stars
Review: Well, this was an interesting book! Tori, our FMC, is a human working in a guild of mythic where she encounters a lot of adventures. She's twenty-one and has anger issues. She's strong, brave and resilient and I love her for that. Overall, I'll totally recommend this book to you all.
Selection PostWeek #9
MenagerieAuthor: Rachel Vincent
Pages: 480
Qualification: It's been on my TBR since 16 November, 2018
NEW BOOK SELECTION - Week 9 Option 1:15. Dust/Sand storm - read a book that has been on your TBR for more than 1 year OR read a book written before 1 January 2010.
Teach Me Tonight by Neil S. Plakcy
Pages - 283
How it fits - was added to my TBR 7/28/18
Completion Post - Week 9Option 1: Dust/Sand storm - read a book that has been on your TBR for more than 1 year OR read a book written before 1 January 2010.
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: Every time I reread the book, I remember why it is and will always be one of my all-time favorite books, this was mine for reading the book. The writing is beautiful. The dialogue is both believable, natural-seeming, and witty. The characters are so well-drawn, interesting, and deep that you get drawn into the story from the first page. Elizabeth Bennet is an uncommon individual. She is bold, outspoken, intelligent, and independent. Her character is quite a contrast to the passive and submissive heroines of popular romantic fiction of the Regency period. Darcy too is an uncommon hero. He is not bold, daring, and forward gallant type found in popular Regency romance, but rather he is steady, intelligent, strong-minded, and principled. The rest of the characters are drawn from the silly, ridiculous, vain, coquettish, wicked, proud, and indifferent lot.
Week 8 completion pistDivorced, Desperate and Delicious
325 pages
4 stars
Finished 5/3/20
Review: This book had everything. Romance, comedy, mystery, and suspense. Very enjoyable read.
week 9: selection postShattered Bonds
284 pages
How it fits: on my to be read list since april 23, 2015
Week 10Option 1:
6. Beautiful day - read a book from the following lists:
Gay Beach Summery Reads
Best Summer Romance Books
What to Read in Summer
Option 2:
Key date - 8 November 2019
A book on your team mates 'read' list AND rated at least 3 stars and read on or after the key date.
Option 3:
Pass
This can only be used once each 5 weeks. Only one team mate can use this option each week.
This is the last week that a pass can be used. Next week is the last week of the challenge and you cannot use a pass in that week.
Completion post - Week 9
283 pg
***
Review:
I like Liam and Adrian, but I had a few issues. The main concept was that they were hired to protect a student whose father had enemies. They went undercover at the school the student was at. Adrian's cover was that he would be the English teacher - as this is what he did before he met Liam, he started to wonder if he was really cut out to be a bodyguard when he loved to teach. That made sense as drama. Where I lost them was when a colleague of Liam's ended up helping them. That in itself was fine - I liked Joey and he added some background for Liam. I was annoyed by Adrian - he became very insecure (I know Joey is straight, but could he be attracted by Liam? Will Liam leave me?) I think that by book three they should be past at least some of the insecurity.
Selection post - Week 10Option 1 - 6. Beautiful day - read a book from the following lists:
Gay Beach Summery Reads
200 pg
How it fits - #18 in Gay Beach Summery Reads
Has anyone heard from Christy lately?? ***edit***
Sent a PM.
Selection PostWeek 10
Option 1
Island Affair by Priscilla Oliveras
Pages: 352 (GR)
Qualification: #37 on Best Summer Romance Books
Completion Post - Week 7Option 1: Greta Thunberg (Climate Activist) - Read a book set in Europe.
Book: Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas
Pages: 341
How it fits: set in England
Read: 4/23
4 stars
I read this one quite a long time ago and really enjoyed reading it the 2nd time. The lead characters had great chemistry, though they were at odds most of the time. I was glad that they were finally able to work things out. I was surprised to have completely forgotten that the reason they were at odds was that just before their wedding the wife found her husband at a former lovers home going to bed with her while delivering a maids baby. Strange thing to have forgotten!
Completion Post - Week #8Book: The Professional by Kresley Cole
Pages: 401
Qualifies: Option 2 - Key date - 25 October 2019, Himanshi read for the challenge on 3/31 and rated 4 stars
Read: 5/8
4 stars
I liked the chemistry between the characters and the unusual setting in Russia. I did like the concept of finding her birth family but didn't love the way the relationship ended with the dad ended. I think that some things were lost on me due to the fits and starts I was reading with as a result of travel and lack of internet!
Selection Post: Week 9Option 1: read a book written before 1 January 2010
Book: Roomies by Christina Lauren
Pages: 368
Fit: Published 12/5/17
Christy wrote: "Selection Post: Week 9Option 1: read a book written before 1 January 2010
Book: Roomies by Christina Lauren
Pages: 368
Fit: Published 12/5/17"
Hi Christy - published as a qualification will only work if it was before 1 Jan 2010. Otherwise it must be when you added it to your TBR, and in that case it needs to have been added before 1 May 2019.
@Christy, I’m really glad you enjoyed “The Professional”! I think you’d like the others in the series, as well (the second was Himanshi’s favorite and the third was mine!). And I’m interested in hearing what you think of “Roomies,” since you’ve read others by them and it’s my favorite (so far).
Selection Post: Week 10Option 1: Beautiful day - read a book from Best Summer Romance Books
Book: Summer Nights by Susan Mallery
Pages: 381
Fits: #137 on Best Summer Romance Books List
Jane (PS) wrote: "Christy wrote: "Selection Post: Week 9Option 1: read a book written before 1 January 2010
Book: Roomies by Christina Lauren
Pages: 368
Fit: Published 12/5/17"
Hi..."
My brain completely read that as 2020, not 2010. Back on the hunt
Updated Selection Post Week 9:Task: Dust/Sand storm - read a book that has been on your TBR for more than 1 year
Book: Ten Kisses to Scandal by Vivienne Lorret
Pages: 382
How it fits: Added to tbr on 9/13/18
So sorry all that I've been MIA. I've been helping my parents with a move from Las Vegas, NV to outside Austin, TX and things have been far more crazed than I ever expected! We FINALLY have both internet and a place to sit, so I expect to be online a lot more going forward! I tried to catch up on all of the entries, and it looks like we need one completion post from Chris on week 8, and several for week 9 (mine included), but overall we are in decent shape. I'm catching up on reviews now. I hope you've all been enjoying your reading!
Chris wrote: "@Christy, I’m really glad you enjoyed “The Professional”! I think you’d like the others in the series, as well (the second was Himanshi’s favorite and the third was mine!). And I’m interested in he..."I'm definitely going to be reading the rest of the series once I catch up on other things. I started Roomies in the car as an audiobook, and I generally have trouble connecting to books that way, so I'm probably going to start over now that I have the Kindle edition to start. I'm looking forward to it.
Selection post - Week #10Option 1: Beautiful day - read a book from the following lists:
Wolfsong
Author: T.J. Klune
Page numbers: 400
How the book qualifies: #369 on Gay Beach - Summery Reads>
Completion post - Week 10Loving Jay by Renae Kaye
finished 5/12/2020
****
Review:
This was a light read - sweet, funny and put me into a good mood. I got a bit tired of Liam repeating to himself that he wasn't gay, but I loved the fact that both Liam and Jay were family-oriented and their families supported them when needed.
Completion Post -Week #10Option 1: Beautiful day - read a book from the following lists:
Wolfsong
Author: T.J. Klune
Rating: ⭐️⭐️
Review: The book didn't connect whit me. Ox's character was well developed. The way the Bennet family dealt with Ox and what he meant to Joe also nagged at me. The fact that they expected Ox to 'fix' Joe bothered me immensely. That's not how trauma works, I don't care if Joe is a werewolf or not. His dependency on Ox was toxic and obsessive, even from a young age. The writing was repetitive. I'm not sure why the author deemed it necessary to repeat phrases and lines so much throughout the book.
Heading into our last week (task announced tomorrow) the following is outstanding:Week 8 - Chris completion
Week 9 - Chris, Christy, Himanshi and Nicole completion
Week 10 - Christy and Chris completions.
Himanshi and Nicole are yet post a selection for week 10.
Let me know if I missed a post :)
Completion PostWeek 8
Option 1
Whiteout by Adriana Anders
Pages: 352 (GR)
Qualification: Listed as #1 on Fatal Chill-Romantic Suspense Set in Winter and Cold & #2 on Winter Time Action and Romance
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The reading experience of Whiteout was like walking across thin ice (or more accurately, crossing a crevasse field): tense and slow-going.
As I've come to expect from Anders, the characters were complex and compelling. Yet, one in particular - the setting of the South Pole (as one could argue the icy landscape was a third character, an ice-adorned and frigid mistress) - positively glistened. Nonetheless, the pacing and plotting were not quite up to my speed.
I'm sorry team 3 - you are out :(No selection posts for week 10 from Nicole or Himanshi.
Hope to see you all again for the next round!!
I am sorry too for letting you all down!
No worries! It was a good run, regardless - no regrets! :)
Sorry for the silence here! It was fun all!
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Not a Hero by Cherise Sinclair
281 pages
how it fits - #18 in Romantic Suspense set in Winter and Cold