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Jun 05, 2020 12:40PM
Holy moly - that was message #1000 in your team thread!! 😮
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Task 28Read by a teammate and rated 4 stars or higher
Selection Post
How to Elude a Vampire
336 pages
Read by Shannon on 6/4/20 and rated 4 stars.
Shannon's completion Post
Shannon's read shelf
Thankfully I can click the links to see if I've already read or listened to a book, and when I get home I'll comment with a correctly formatted post... but I'm listening to Be Fairy Game - read by Lisa last month and rated 5 Stars.
Picking between What Lies Beneath & Bond. Depends on how much time I will get this afternoon...
Have you guys read anything in the last 3 months that has flavored lube by chance?
Don’t think so Shannon 🧐
Does it need to be used or just mentioned? September has one of the MCs shopping for supplies and I think he looked at some flavored lube.
⚣Michaelle⚣ wrote: "Does it need to be used or just mentioned? September has one of the MCs shopping for supplies and I think he looked at some flavored lube."I think it is just a mention?
**edit**
🔹 Mention is fine, don't have to use it | #29
Yep, September has a mention:Loc 1022 22% The array of lubes was equally daunting. Self-warming, scented, flavored, silicone...
Task 28: #33. Each teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 Stars or higher in the last 3 months. No pass for this task.Selection
What Lies Beneath
Pages: 248pp Kindle
How it qualifies: Read by Shannon 20 April 2020, rated 4 stars.
[*book:What Lies Beneath|49616227]
Task 28: #33 Selection PostEach teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 Stars or higher in the last 3 months.
Tallowwood by NR Walker
Pages: 375
Qualification: Read by Jane 5/28/20, Rated ★★★★
[*book:Tallowwood|49616952]
Task 28Read by a teammate and rated 4 stars or higher
Completion Post
How to Elude a Vampire
336 pages
Read by Shannon on 6/4/20 and rated 4 stars.
Shannon's completion Post
Shannon's read shelf
Date read: 6/6/20
5 stars
loved, loved, loved this. All the fun and snark.
The image of Marcus with the tiny dog - pure magic.
Loved the inclusion of Claude. I hope he might get together with Karsyen in the next book.
The next book better be soon, I didn't want this one to end.
Completion PostTask 28: Read by a teammate and rated 4 stars or higher
Be Fairy Game by Meghan Maslow
Page Count: 378/GR Kindle
How it Qualifies: Read by Lisa on 16May2020 - Rated 5 Stars
Date Completed: 06Jun2020
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Review: I can totally see why Lisa rated this 5 Stars...amazing world-building, great characters (main and side) and while Twig & Quinn are in an established relationship by this installment, there's still some tension about making the decision to permanently mate. Oh, and the sex was sizzling hot.
[*book:Be Fairy Game|41003166]
Forgot to make a selection post - sorry!!
⚣Michaelle⚣ wrote: "Forgot to make a selection post - sorry!!"Don't need one :) Its just so we know it fits etc...
Task 28: #33. Each teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 Stars or higher in the last 3 months. No pass for this task.COMPLETION
What Lies Beneath
Pages: 248pp Kindle
How it qualifies: Read by Shannon 20 April 2020, rated 4 stars.
Finished: 6 June 2020
4 stars
This should really be labelled as Part 1 since so much of the mystery remains. But the relationship is a HFN in that our MCs are together.
[*book:What Lies Beneath|49616227]
Task 28: #33 Completion PostEach teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 Stars or higher in the last 3 months.
Tallowwood by NR Walker
Pages: 375
Qualification: Read by Jane 5/28/20, Rated ★★★★
Read: 6/6/20
Rating: ★★★★
Don't know what took me so long to read this book. I'd guess I didn't read the precis because I love this shiz!
[*book:Tallowwood|49616952]
Glad you enjoyed it! More mystery than romance in many ways, but two MCs that really fit well and needed each other :)
Shannon wrote: "Damn, you're fast Jane!"I've been milling around counting points for What Lies Beneath ;)
You're on the list to get your LAST task (😱) tomorrow!
MountainKat wrote: "You're on the list to get your LAST task (😱) tomorrow!"Is this the read-off, or the last task before the read-off?
**edit**
For some reason I thought we finished on a Friday, but I realise we actually down our books on midnight Tuesday (which for me will be sometime on Wednesday afternoon I think). So it would seem the next task is the read-off 😱
...Right through the middle of my work week as I work Monday to Wednesday!! Geez.
Hells bells -
Jane (PS) wrote: "MountainKat wrote: "You're on the list to get your LAST task (😱) tomorrow!"Is this the read-off, or the last task before the read-off?"
The read-off - it the last task and everyone gets the same one. Right now I have 4 teams getting the task first thing - for me, no guarantees of time! It is only this team and Team 9 competing for the overall win.
Thanks Kat!I need to mentally prepare myself!! Ack.
AND we have some cattle stuff happening tomorrow as well... Ah well - I'll just have to do my best 😁
Team - in light of the read-off I was wondering if perhaps we simply update our selection posts to completion posts as we finish each book? Would that be faster for you? I would then just link to the book post and it will reflect your latest reading status.So we'd post our book, and then simply update that post to a COMPLETION and note the date it was finished.
Given this finishes during my daytime, the tally in msg 17 will be easy for me to keep up to date.
But if it is simpler to continue as we were, or some mix of the two, that will work as well :D
I dont mind either way. I can amend the selection post.Somehow I wish the last task was given on Friday so we would have the weekend to read.
Lucky for me it is a Sunday...and I don't have to work!!I need to scroll through the thread to get a tentative time as to when MK tends to update so I can get a jump on the task ASAP.
⚣Michaelle⚣ wrote: "Lucky for me it is a Sunday...and I don't have to work!!I need to scroll through the thread to get a tentative time as to when MK tends to update so I can get a jump on the task ASAP."
It can be any time between 10 and noon pacific.
I can just change my selection post, no problem.
Here is your next task:100. Read a book with an average rating of 4.2 or higher. No pass for this task. You can read as many books as you wish, each book completed earns a point.
The books you choose need to have an average GR rating of 4.2 or higher. You can find this number on the main book page, use the average rating in your qualification. There is no pass for this task - so every team member needs to complete a book before the task is considered complete and points are tallied. Completions need to be posted prior to midnight US EDT on Tuesday, June 9th when the challenge ends.
Completion Post (book 1)Pieces of You
185 pages /GR
Average rating: 4.45
Date read: 6/7/20
5 stars
Loved this book. Dallas was so patient and caring nursing Justin back to health following the car accident, made all the more difficult with the fact Justin couldn't remember him.
Completion Post (book 2)The Vampire's Club Book Seven
171 pages /GR
Average Rating: 4.51
Date read: 06/07/20
4 stars
An exciting end to the series with the big face off between witches and Vamps.
Completion Post Book 1Final Task: Average Rating of 4.2 or Higher
Breaker of Chains by Jordan L. Hawk
Page Count: 163/GR Kindle
How it Qualifies: Average 4.43
Date Completed: 07Jun2020
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: Well, it seems like everything that could go wrong, did go wrong with our MCs here. SPECTR is no longer the agency either (+Grey) thought they'd joined and I think I was just as frustrated as Caleb/Grey with the new restrictions, many of them a Catch-22.
Ends on a cliffhanger, again, and I might just have to listen to the next one later today!
[*book:Breaker of Chains|38530632]
Task 29Completion Post ( book 3)
Man on Fire
174 pages /GR
Average rating 4.27
Date read:6/8/20
3.5 stars
Didnt start well with manties (shudder) but it did warm up. This was about Zander and his coping with hus PTSD and the wonderful HEA with Derek.
Task 29 - #100. Read a book with an average rating of 4.2 or higherCOMPLETION
Spencer Cohen, Book Two
Pages: 208 GR Kindle
How it qualifies: 4.22 rating
Rating: 5 stars
Love these books!
[*book:Spencer Cohen, Book Two|28599165]
Task 29 - #100. Read a book with an average rating of 4.2 or higherCOMPLETION - book 2
Spencer Cohen, Book Three
Pages: 202 GR Kindle
How it qualifies: 4.41 rating
[*book:Spencer Cohen, Book Three|28599180]
Task 29Completion Post (book 4)
Drama Fraternity
191 pages / Amazon.
Average rating: 4.53
Date Read: 06/08/20
3.5 stars
This series started ok but its getting a bit samey now and lots of things repeating.
Shannon wrote: "Times MK has posted....this will be tricky!!11:38 am
1:08 pm
..."
I don't understand. What do these times mean?
Jane (PS) wrote: "Shannon wrote: "Times MK has posted....this will be tricky!!11:38 am
1:08 pm
..."
I don't understand. What do these times mean?"
Ha, I thought we were trying to figure out what time tomorrow MK would post the final task to compete for the win. Didn't realize it was a readathon until a few hours ago!
Task 29 Completion Post (Book 1)
No Angel by Nora Phoenix
Pages: 167
Qualification: Rated 4.51 Stars
Read: 6/7/20
Rating: ★★★★
Love these perverts!!
[*book:No Angel|43341612]
Task 29 Completion Post (Book 2)
Picking Up the Pieces
Pages: 169
Qualification: Rated 4.2 Stars
Read: 6/7/20
Rating: ★★★★
Pretty intense for a short book!
[*book:Picking Up the Pieces|46008508]
Completion Post Book 2Task 29: Read a book with an average rating of 4.2 or higher
Forging the Future by Mary Calmes
Page Count: 200/GR Kindle
How it Qualifies: Average Rating 4.23
Date Read: 07Jun2020
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: Not quite 4 stars but I rounded up...well, just because!
Gah, I should have listened to this one closer to the others because OMG the terminology, rules, rituals, titles etc. were almost overwhelming. (I almost wish there was a glossary at the beginning for these audios like there is in Cochet's THIRDS series.) Other than that, it was pretty good; there was a moment there where I actually did that whole "releasing a breath I didn't know I was holding" thing that I rage against in books - but if you know what scene I'm talking about I doubt you weren't a little shocked as well.
Despite starting out a little rocky (not fond of the amnesia trope), it was probably the best book of the series. And of course Sean did a great job with the narration!
[*book:Forging the Future|30848689]
Task 29 Completion Post (Book 3)
Help Me, Sir by Quinn Ward
Pages: 169
Qualification: Rated 4.28 Stars
Read: 6/7/20
Rating: ★★★★
Still loving this menage after 2 books now!
[*book:Help Me, Sir|49003110]
Completion Post Book 3Task 29: Read a book with an average rating of 4.2 or higher
Spencer Cohen, Book One by N.R. Walker
Page Count: 170/GR Kindle
How it Qualifies: Average Rating 4.22 Stars
Date Completed: 08Jun2020
Rating: ~4 Stars
Review: Audio Review 08Jun2020 No Change
I don't know if Joel's Aussie accent is authentic but I like it a lot. Every. Single. Complaint I had about the book the first time around still stands, though...and despite the Fake Boyfriend Trope being one of my favorites, the way it's done here seems even more manipulative this time around. But I did like the audio, so it evened out.
Original Review 13Sep2016: 3.8 Stars
I really liked the idea of a relationship rescuer that can make an ex see the error of their ways. Sure, it's a little manipulative but sometimes a guy needs a good swift kick to pull his head out of his ass.
But with this specific book, the Ex was so...I dunno, nebulous? Like, he wasn't even a real character that mattered? More than once I kept thinking that this was some sort of set-up FOR Spencer rather than BY Spencer because it felt like Eli was so unimportant to the story - almost an unknowing participant that just happened to be in the right places at the right times for Andrew to use as a good cover. Yeah, that's probably because we don't have things from Andrew's POV so we don't get any real conversation with anyone but Andrew and Spencer's friends...but still, the whole backstory and relationship felt incomplete and unsolid.
Also, weepy lumbersexual hipsters must just not be my thing. He sounded hot and funny and cheeky - in a sneaky, ninja badass way... till he broke down like a Night-Time Soap Diva. Yeah, I know we women say we want men more in touch with their feelings but, no. Not that much. A good drunk with a side of breaking shit and shutting down/sleeping around would have done for me, thanks.
I'm going to read the next one because I'm hoping it will help improve my image of Spencer, maybe make me understand that kind of reaction to someone he just fucking met. Because the half paragraph explanation of his past/family dynamic was also just too rushed; hints were dropped here and there but when the truth was revealed it felt like a truth bomb no one waited around to hear the backstory of...because none was explained. Too little detail for it to be so much of a defining event.
[*book:Spencer Cohen, Book One|28436109]
Completion Post Book 4Task 29: Read a book with an average rating of 4.2 or higher
The Power of Zero by Jackie Keswick
Page Count: 150/GR Kindle
How it Qualifies: Average Rating 4.35
Date Completed: 08Jun2020
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Review: Well, that was an interesting intro to a series that I will definitely be adding to my TBR!
[*book:The Power of Zero|35533872]
Task 29 - #100. Read a book with an average rating of 4.2 or higherCOMPLETION - book 3
After the Sunset
Pages: 174 GR ebook 17 August 2011
1st Kindle edition does not specify page count. 2nd Kindle edition: 200 pages.
How it qualifies: 4.24 rating
Rating - 4.5 stars. Always enjoy this one :)
[*book:After the Sunset|12204007]
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