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TART Challenge2 - Still Loitering Layabouts - The Goid Edition (3)
Final Post Book 6 Completion
Say You’ll Be Nine by Lucy Lennox
Pages: 293
Qualification: L,L in First Half of Alphabet
Read: 11/7/20
Rating: ★★★★★
I've gotta give this one all the stars because it just did it for me. Made me laugh, made my tear up a few times and was just the sweetest. Cooper and Nine (Isaac) thrown together for a summer of home renovations and social media, what could go wrong? Gah, I just wanted to wrap Isaac up in a big ole lumberjack sized blanket and give him a good cuddle. I mean if Cooper was a chicken he would put him in his closet....Loved!!!
[*book:Say You’ll Be Nine|53466714]
Final Post Book 7 Completion
Who I Used to Be by Alexa Land
Pages: 502
Qualification: A,L in First Half of Alphabet
Read: 11/8/20
Rating: ★★★
I shouldn't have waited so long in between books because I'm sure not remembering all the characters took away some of my enjoyment of this story. I remembered Nana, of course. Also, this one was heavier than some of the previous books which I wasn't expecting or looking for. Still a great read but not what I was in the mood for but that's just me. If you're looking for one of these stories with a bit more teeth, this is it.
[*book:Who I Used to Be|31661030]
Final Post Book 8 Completion
Unspoken Vow by Eden Finley
Pages: 319
Qualification: E,F in First Half of Alphabet
Read: 11/8/20
Rating: ★★★★
I don't know why I didn't read this right when I finished the first one seeing as these two played such a big part of book one. Anders is the twin of Law and Brody is Reed's ex, now friend. Talk about intertwined. I may have liked this one a bit more than the first as we got the whole story from Ander's point of view. The angst and struggle was there but kept at a level that bring me down in any way. Just part of their love story. Loved it!!
[*book:Unspoken Vow|50811853]
Final Post Book 9
Trusting Cade by Luna David
Pages: 351
Qualification: L,D in First Half of Alphabet
Read: 11/8/20
Rating: ★★★★
This was a reread for me and I was hoping to get to book 2 but didn't get the chance before time ran out. I'm going to read it now because I am enjoying this maybe more than I did the first go around. Their dynamic is really something considering the sexing is almost non existent. Love the big bad bodyguard and the weaker, kind of sick chef. They just work for me. Moving on now!!
[*book:Trusting Cade|29090680]
Completion - Book 6Last Task: A-M
Romancing the Ugly Duckling by Clare London
Page Count: 260
Date Completed: 06Nov2020
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: Holy cow, I almost forgot to rate/review this one and that would have sucked since it was a challenge book!
Anyways, OMG this was SO MUCH BETTER than Book 1. First of all, yay for getting a narrator that could do the right accents. Joel Leslie, once again, delivers a stellar performance in his performance of Perry. Just the right level of panic and perturbed. Perry is high-maintenace, very used to the comforts of London...so being "exiled" to the Western Isles was quite a shock. He learned to deal with it, but by putting his own touch on the more rustic aspects of the setting.
Greg is how I imagine the what if were there another sibling that would say "fuck off" to the rest of the K's and their reality show. He's perfectly happy with his life, with his choices. He deserves a Perry to spice it up a little, though.
Wonderful descriptions of the setting; I could almost feel the damp and smell the sheep. Again, so much better than book 1 IMHO.
[*book:Romancing the Ugly Duckling|35403261]
I got so caught up in picking and reading the next books that I forgot to post that one, should have been book 2!
Final Post Book 5
Trust with a Chaser by Annabeth Albert
Pages: 280
Qualification: A,A in First Half of Alphabet
Read: 11/7/20
Rating: ★★★★
I am loving the start of this new series! Mason is just the sweetest, cutest etc and Nash is the epitome of stoic, stubborn, in-the-closet cop. Yes, Nash could be a bit of an ass sometimes and it was frustrating that he was being held back by the ghost of his father but nothing ott or cruel. His mother pissed me off to the very end. What a bitch! Mason's family is...the only word I can think of is gross. They are gross. Basically a very sweet read with some hot sex leaving lots of room for more stories in this little town. Can't wait!
[*book:Trust with a Chaser|35435267]
I screwed up my numbering as well. lol
Now double checking our stuff so far....
Completion - Book 7Last Task: A-M
Forgive and Forget by Charlie Cochet
Page Count: 194
Date Completed: 08Nov2020
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Review:
Since I had to use the 1st Kindle edition for my challenge, I'm going to go ahead and re-rate this one as 3.5 rather than 4 stars and .25 of it was due to John Solo's narration.
I appreciated that there was little by way of actual detail when it came to the baking and whatnot. I'm not fond of the "chef" trope solely because so many of the books I've read have been filled with the minutia of cooking. There was some mention of the tasks, but nothing overly specific.
What I don't remember from my first read was having to suspend disbelief so much. Especially the part about how Liam just happened to be near Joe's bakery.
But it was just as tooth-ache inducing this time around. So sweet...and yet also hot.
[*book:Forgive and Forget|29540431]
Task 28 - Read a book written by an authors whose initials are both in the first half of the alphabet (A-M) or both in the second half of the alphabet (N-Z). No pass for this task.Book 5 - COMPLETION
Switched
Pages: 269 Kindle GR
Qualifies: NR Walker (N,W) - second half of the alphabet
Read: 9 November
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
Loved this, and really love the concept and plot line. I did feel though that there was a LOT of wallowing around by our MC Israel ~ for all that he had a crappy set of circumstances, so its hard to really judge. MC Sam is great - such a great friend throughout Israel life!
Narrated by Joel Leslie - does a much better set of Aussie accents than earlier NRW books :)
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Completion - Book 8Last Task: N-Z
Burn by Nora Phoenix
Page Count: 274
How it Qualifies: N&P - Last Half of Alphabet
Date Completed: 08Nov2020
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Review: Damn, what a ride!
Once again we have that fade out scene from the previous book opening this one, and it was HOT! And yet...also very romantic. I love how these 3 guys love each other. So much acceptance, so much love and dedication. ADORE that there was even more communication and discussions of consent.
Didn't anticipate who they'd end up teaming up with, and Tan's brother deserved that verbal bitch-slap/rude awakening. Thankfully he learned his lesson.
I almost wish that the precis didn't mention the HEA because that took away some of the suspense. I think I would have rather not known...it's a freaking alien invasion of a dystopian earth. The fear of loss was less urgent.
That said, I am definitely going to listen to the whole series when I need a re-read and these fit the challenges
[*book:Burn|50341727]
Completion - Book 9Last Task: A-M
Strain by Amelia C. Gormley
Page Count: 320
How it Qualifies: A&C&G - First Half of Alphabet
Date Completed: 08Nov2020
Rating: ALL THE STARS
Review: Re-Re-Read 08Nov2020:
I mentioned in another review of a post-apocalyptic/dystopian book that it was less gritty and raunchy than I was expecting given the genre. So...I felt like I needed to rectify this by re-reading one that I KNEW was dirtybadwrongdelicious. Also, why are there not more Fuck-or-Die tropes? I need those in my life like woah.
Even more appreciation for the world-building and attention to detail. (I seem to have developed a fascination for survivalist skills.) And why is there always a stupid religious cult involved when things go to shit?
Once again, I'm questioning my kinks because those more public sex scenes were hotter than I remember. Also, the multiple partner thing. Gah, so hot. SO HOT! I don't think I'd have even been mad had Darius and Rhys not ended up together. Rhys could have just stayed their fuck-toy and I'd have been fine with it.
Please, Amelia, consider having these made into audios?
[*book:Strain|20818313]
All the posts look good to me as well :)
Check my last one real quick please.
Sorry I posted them all at once. Was focused on finishing and lost track of time! Thought I'd have those up an hour ago!
Are we done!! I can get something else kind of cleanish around my house and somewhat not disgusting? Well, bummer but Yay!!
LOL! I'm headed back to the bedroom. SigO went from agressively killing shit on XBox back to rage-watching FAUX so...that's a nope. I hate that the desktop is in the common room and that I can't do these posts from my phone. I figured out the browser problem but the screen is too small to do it well.
Hahaha! And Lisa is asleep (for now) to miss the fun!
Is it weird that I've had these big streaks on the master bath mirror since we moved in but only whipped out the freaking ladder so I could clean them today? That's weird, right? I wish I was more observant...
Hells bells - still living the loss?!
Shannon wrote: "Are we done!! I can get something else kind of cleanish around my house and somewhat not disgusting? Well, bummer but Yay!!"Still trying to ignore the house... 🙄
Jane (PS) wrote: "Hells bells - still living the loss?!"HAHAHA!!! Yep. It's a good thing he never put up one of those flags or banners or else I'd have filmed him taking it down, layered it with TAPS and then posted it on Tiktok. I don't think he's gonna let this go until Jan 20th. Maybe not even then. Good thing Kid graduates in May. I may need to yeet myself out of here.
(He wouldn't let me put up Bernie signs back before the Primary so I told him it was only fair that he couldn't either. LOL, only he didn't know that I have a magnetic Bernie bumper sticker and would slap it on before I drove anywhere by myself.)
So he's like the people of TV ranting about us stealing the vote because for some reason they can't understand that mail in votes take longer and have to be opened?
⚣Michaelle⚣ wrote: "I have a magnetic Bernie bumper sticker and would slap it on before I drove anywhere by myself..."THAT is hilarious!!
Shannon wrote: "So he's like the people of TV ranting about us stealing the vote because for some reason they can't understand that mail in votes take longer and have to be opened?"OMG, you should hear the conspiracy theories he's ranting about. I'm like, if we were going to steal it don't you think we'd have done it for the Senate in a landslide, too? Ossoff isn't likely to win that runoff in GA...I mean, I'm hoping for it, but people who voted for the 3rd candidate are more likely to vote for that other person.
Unlesssss...there's a lot of Gen Z in GA who will turn 18 before the January registration date. And hopefully those who vote blue will be fired up to show up. In 2016, Clark county got flipped to Bernie because we showed up more. (County convention...don't get me started on that state convention. I am, and will forever be, still salty.)
Shannon wrote: "Do we need to do a completion post?"MKat had said not. She will trawl through out thread...
Working on the tallies now. Last night my eyes started crossing and the yawns were going by the time I finished your team. No way I could add up your numbers with any surety, so I did the smart thing and went to bed!Just finished my morning stuff and am back at it. 😊
🎈🎆🎉 Woohoo - we won! 🧨✨🎀https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I had a different page count but who knows! I'd need to check it again to see what the difference was :) Not sure I could be bothered 🙂
Thanks everyone - another great challenge and the only one where I put all other tasks to the side to play with the three of you. Love our time together!
And a huge thanks to Kat as well for coordinating all of this. I hate to think how much time this must all take 😁
Not sure if the rest of you realised, but I stuffed up the international time zones (as usual), thinking the game finished more than 18 hours before close off 🙄 Fortunately my brain clicked back in place on the last morning in time for one more book!
The error could have easily been mine with the page count! I checked my addition several times, but I wouldn't be supposed if I typed a page count down wrong. 🤷🏻♀️
MountainKat wrote: "The error could have easily been mine with the page count! I checked my addition several times, but I wouldn't be supposed if I typed a page count down wrong. 🤷🏻♀️"Not worth worrying about i think. I had the books added up in msg 9 but I gave up adding all the links after the first 24 hours! 😂
WooHoo, just woke up from a nap 'cause I'm still tired...totally worth it!!!
Thanks for all the hard work and what would be massive confusion for me Kat!!and Jane, thanks for being our captain again!!
LOL - I had all of them but Michaelle's last two - even though I checked them last night! I knew I was too tired to keep working on the tracking. 🤦🏻♀️ Still the math is off and that is probably operator error - I was only using the calculator on my phone. The one with tape so I can make sure I enter everything correctly. I will fight my perfectionist nature and try to ignore it because you won either way. 🤷🏻♀️
Great going team, worth the non stop reading and thanks MK for another great race.See you back for the next time...lol
YAY!!! GREAT JOB TEAM!Thank You MK for hosting this fun challenge again. We appreciate all the hard work that went into creating it for us.
And so closes TART for 2020. Looking forward to being a member of our team for TART 2021!! 😁
Me too! Where should we stalk next.....hmmmm
Trying to get the lay of the land... what does this mean?As you finish a task, you may move down the list to harder or more involved tasks, but tasks will be assigned at random.
Just take it to mean tasks recassigned atvrandom, eg except for the last task, teams will all be working on different tasks. Normally like spell teams wont get the same task at the same time.
Do any of these authors look okay to you guys for series or author or anything. I seem too have quite a bit I want to read from them.Authors
Reese Knightley
Aimee Nicole Walker
Nora Phoenix
K.M. Neuhold
Kelly Fox
Shannon wrote: "Do any of these authors look okay to you guys for series or author or anything. I seem too have quite a bit I want to read from them.Authors
Reese Knightley
[author:Aimee Nico..."
I haven't read Reese Knightley, but I have tons of her books... also, I haven't read anything by Kelly Fox and don't have a single book... let me go see what I can find! *grin*
The other three I read the hell out of them!!! *grin*
Shannon wrote: "Do any of these authors look okay to you guys for series or author or anything. I seem too have quite a bit I want to read from them.Authors
Reese Knightley
[author:Aimee Nico..."
All look good to me.
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Only Love by Garrett Leigh
Pages: 272
Qualification: L,G in First Half of Alphabet
Read: 11/7/20
Rating: ★★★★★
This was a reread and I still loved as much the second time and I did the first which is a rare occurrence for me. Jed's stubborn macho crap and Max's vulnerability just slayed me. It felt like every day was just about survival for them and to find each other when they're both damaged was just perfect. Is life going to be easy for them? Oh, hell no but we get the feeling that they can deal with it and that's all that matters. Loved meeting Jed's military buddies and hoping we'll get their stories soon.
[*book:Only Love|21902854]