PtP - Our Couch Pulls Out, But We Don’t (6)

[Emeli]

Selection Post

Week # 9 - Option 1

254 pages
Black cover

[☘KathyD☘]

Week 9
Selection Post – Option 1


Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Carrie Vaughn
Pages ➔ 353
How the Book Qualifies ➔ dark/black cover

[☘KathyD☘]

Completion Post – Week 9


Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Carrie Vaughn – 5/3/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Review — This was another great installment in this series! There was a lot going on, but it all worked well together to bring about an interesting conclusion and new beginning for Kitty.

[Emeli]

Week 9 completion
completion

Finished 3/5
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This was a great start to a new series it was sweet and steamy and i loved the way tank cared for cj moving heaven and earth for him

[Sexyladi]

🎁PASS THE PARCEL - Round 16🎁
🎁THEME - COUCHSURFING
🎁COMPLETION POST WEEK 9 🎁
🎁Date - 04/30/2021🎁
🎁 Option 1—3. Not sure about you, but those couches sounds dirty!
* Read a book with a ‘dirty’ colour on the cover (e.g., black, brown, tan)

Night Reigns by Dianne Duvall
🎁 Pages - 401
🎁 Qualifications - see the above Tan and brown cover
🎁Date completed - 05/06 /2021
🎁 Rating - 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 Stars Audio Book
🎁 Review - Great Read!!! 4 1/2 Stars!!!
Marcus was an immortal and Ami was an Alien the chemistry between the two was combustible. There was drama, intrigue evil vamps, evil black ops that made this book one I couldn't put it down. Definite Recommendation! .

[[deleted user]]

Selection Post

Week 9 ~ Option 1 ~ * Read a book with a ‘dirty’ colour on the cover (e.g., black, brown, tan)

Victim of Love by Darien Cox
Pages: 211
Qualification: Gray cover

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

Emeli wrote: "Week 8 completion
Paris With The Billionaire
Finished 28/4
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Set in the city of love this is yet another great ott alpha Romance with a man who will move heaven and earth for h..."

Hi Emeli - this is a different book to your selection post. Please update the completion post to match your selection.

Thanks!

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "Selection Post: Week 8 - travelling all over the world

Sugar and Ice
Pages: 176
How it qualifies: main characters are hockey players, so they travel in the execution of their jobs;..."

Hi beppy - just need to get your selection post in before I make the next call in about 12 hours...

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Selection Post: Week 9 - dirty couches

Wild Card
Pages: 292
How it qualifies: brown/tan cover

[*bookcover:Wild Card|34971200]

[☘KathyD☘]

Jane (PS) wrote: "Emeli wrote: "Week 8 completion
Paris With The Billionaire
Finished 28/4
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Set in the city of love this is yet another great ott alpha Romance with a man who will move heaven a..."

sorry Jane...I completely missed that!

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Completion Post: Week 9

Wild Card
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review:

Shane pretty much loved Rachel from the first moment he saw her when they were 9 years old. As they grew older, their feelings changed from the more platonic love of friendship to romantic love. Except Rachel always wanted to escape their small town. Then one night, Shane hurts Rachel and she leaves. Six years later, Rachel is back in town to look after her mother, who is ill. Even if they don't get a second chance at love, Rachel wants closure on the life she left behind.

This was...pretty good. I think. It's been awhile since I read it (like, 5 whole days), and I remember liking Rachel and Shane together. I think that the way that they found their way back to one another felt believable. I liked the way that they worked on things and while they did do impetuous things, they then thought about the consequences and worked on them.
Quite a few editing issues, and this was 1st person, present tense POV.

[Emeli]

☘KathyD☘ wrote: "Jane (PS) wrote: "Emeli wrote: "Week 8 completion
Paris With The Billionaire
Finished 28/4
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Set in the city of love this is yet another great ott alpha Romance with a man who ..."
Corrected

[Geri]

Selection Post

Week # 10 - Option 1

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes
464 pages
Qualification: Added to my shelves on May 7

[Sexyladi]

Week 10
Option 1:
11. One of Couchsurfing's values is to 'stay curious'.

* Read a book that is not currently on your bookshelves.
State the date that you added the book to your shelves IN YOUR SELECTION POST.
The DATE that you add the book to your bookshelf must be in the week that this task is announced.

Option 2:
Key date - 6 November 2020
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.

[Sexyladi]

🎁 PASS THE PARCEL - Round 16
🎁THEME - COUCHSURFING
🎁SELECTION POST WEEK 10🎁
🎁Date - 05/08/2021🎁
🎁 Option 1:
11. One of Couchsurfing's values is to 'stay curious'.
* Read a book that is not currently on your bookshelves.
State the date that you added the book to your shelves IN YOUR SELECTION POST.
The DATE that you add the book to your bookshelf must be in the week that this task is announced.

Flow by Kennedy Ryan
🎁 Pages - 126
🎁 Qualifications - Added to my shelves May 8, 2021

[Emeli]

Selection Post week 10

292 pages
Added to my shelves 8th may

[Geri]

Completion Post

Week # 10

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes
Rating: 2 ⭐️
Review: I was looking for something fun and different. And this book about a rock band sounded interesting. But boy was I bored! The book started out promising. But went downhill fast for me. I never felt very invested in the characters or story. And the romance didn’t have much heat or tension. Very disappointing!

[☘KathyD☘]

Sexyladi wrote: "Week 10
Option 1:
11. One of Couchsurfing's values is to 'stay curious'.

* Read a book that is not currently on your bookshelves.
State the date that you added the book to your shelves IN YOUR SEL..."

thanks for posting this week's task!

[☘KathyD☘]

Week 10
Selection Post – Option 1


American Prince, Sierra Simone
Pages ➔ 330
How the Book Qualifies ➔ added to my to-be-read shelf on 5/9/21

[Emeli]

completion week 10

Finished 9/5
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I loved this book it was so sweet and i adored Bentley and the way he healed legends heart so hats off to mia monroe for a great book that will make you smile

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Selection Post : Week 10 - stay curious

The Subway Girl

Pages: 276
How it qualifies: added to currently reading shelf May 9, 2021

[*bookcover:The Subway Girl|52458130]

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Completion Post: Week 10

The Subway Girl

Rating: 2.5 stars
Review:

Ryan sees a woman on the subway and feels an immediate connection with her. He doesn't know what it is, but he knows that he needs to get to know her. Because he is a graphic designer, he sets up a website to try and find her. Angie finds out about the website, and convinces Ryan to do a piece for the gossip website that she works for to try and reach more people. Traffic to the site goes way up, which may help Angie help her boss make the transition to network television. Ryan starts trending on social media, with some people loving the story, some people thinking it was fake, and some people just not understanding the hype. Through it all, Ryan can't seem to find his mystery woman, but he and Angie get closer, even though they have completely different views on love.

This was enjoyable. It was a little funny to see the switch, with the male character believing in love at first sight and the female lead character being much more cynical and standoffish. I really liked Ryan's and Angie's friends. I did have some issues with Angie's mom, and her insistence that Angie should get back together with her ex. It doesn't matter if you don't know why they broke up, she's a grown woman, and you should respect her decisions. I think my biggest issue was that there was a LOT in internal dialogue from both characters, and then a lot of whining about one event that could have prevented all the over the top drama if they had just let each other finish one sentence each on the morning of the event. There were a few editing issues that I probably wouldn't have noticed if I had been more involved in the story.

[[deleted user]]

Selection Post


Week 10 ~ Option 1 ~ * Read a book that is not currently on your bookshelves.

How to Catch a Biker by
Pages: 288 (found on Amazon page)
Qualification: Added to my TBR on 12 May 2021

[☘KathyD☘]

hey all! hope everyone’s week is going well...before the last task call on Friday, I want to provide a quick recap of what I have listed as outstanding...if I missed a post, just let me know so I can fix it! =)

completion posts...
Week 4—UC [beppy]
Week 9—Cyndee
Week 10—KathyD; Cyndee; Sexyladi

selection posts are all complete through Week 10

[[deleted user]]

I should be all caught up before the new task call on Friday. :D

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Completion Post: Week 4

All Fixed Up
Rating: 3 stars
Review:

Ciel is back, with her boyfriend Billy, her family, and Mark. While doing a job for Mark, Ciel seems to be recognized as an adaptor by someone who shouldn't be in the know. When adaptors start dying, it's a rush to find out who is doing the killing before Ciel ends up dead.

It's been awhile since I read the previous books in the series, but I remember them being funny. This...wasn't. At least, not to me, right now, in this reading mood. There weren't a lot of shenanigans, which made the other books interesting. This was more about navel gazing than anything else, because the mystery just seemed to flow around the story, not woven into the fabric of it. The important parts were Ciel, what was going on with her and Billy, her family, and everything else was just flotsam. While I agree that all the relationships that Ciel has with the other characters are important, there needed to be something more, for me. If this is the end of the series, and it appears as though it is, since the last book was published in 2016, it ended in a pretty good place for Ciel and everyone. (view spoiler)[Well, maybe not Mark. But he was too slow, and I'm not sure that he and Ciel would have been good together, anyway. As a couple, I mean. (hide spoiler)]

[Sexyladi]

🎁 PASS THE PARCEL - Round 16
🎁THEME - COUCHSURFING
🎁COMPLETION POST WEEK 10🎁
🎁Date - 05/08/2021🎁
🎁 Option 1:
11. One of Couchsurfing's values is to 'stay curious'.
* Read a book that is not currently on your bookshelves.
State the date that you added the book to your shelves IN YOUR SELECTION POST.
The DATE that you add the book to your bookshelf must be in the week that this task is announced.

Flow by Kennedy Ryan
🎁 Pages - 126
🎁 Qualifications - Added to my shelves May 8, 2021
🎁Date completed - 05/13 /2021
🎁 Rating - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Stars Audio Book
🎁 Review - Great beginning to forever!
I read the first two books before I knew there was a prequel, but this book just shows me that Kennedy Ryan has a unique way of pulling you in and keeping your attention to the end. I highly recommend this series!

[[deleted user]]

COMPLETION POST

Week #10 ~ Option #1


Book: How to Catch a Biker by Ana Ashley
Rating (1-5): 4.5 stars
Review: This was just the book I needed after reading several 1-and 2-star reads in a row. Sweet story line, great side characters, lovable main characters with some great depth especially considering the short length of the book. I can't wait to go back and catch up with the other characters in the rest of the series.

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Selection Post: Week 11 - surf your own shelves

Wings
Pages: 163
How it qualifies: #2 book that came up on top 3 of random sort on my chosen shelf, Monthly Reading

[*bookcover:Wings|40614131]

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

I'm going to post my completion post now, since I will not be around a computer or internet, and have to do everything on my phone. I'll edit it once I'm finished my book and do a separate post to let you know I've finished reading it, KathyD.

[☘KathyD☘]

Week 11

Option 1
13. Surf your own shelves.

* On your preferred TBR shelf, look at the beige bar at the bottom of the page - on the sort function, click on 'random' and then read one of the first 3 books that now appear at the top of your shelf.
You may use any of your TBR shelves so long as there are at least 15 books on that shelf. If the page count for any of the three books does not qualify for the challenge (that is, is less than 100 pages), you may select the next book that has appeared randomly on the list. You must use a list that does not contain books that you have already read IF you do not want to read them again. You cannot substitute for the next book on the list, as allowed with the page count. If 3 books are at the top of your list that you have already read, you must select one of them.
Please note again - there must be at least 15 books on your TBR shelf.

Option 2
Key date: 13 November 2020

If you use this option, this week you must select your book from the team shelves immediately below your team in this list. The last team picks from the first team.

10 Couch Potatoes
7 The Lounging Lovelies
3 Couch Cruisers
8 Relax, Ride and Read
5 Have Books, Will Travel
4 My Couch or Yours
2 Surfing the Stacks
6 Our Couch Pulls Out, But We Don't
11 CouchSurfers Wipeout
1 Bargain Basement Backpackers
9 Six Slouching Surfers

Eg. Team 10 picks from team 7's members bookshelves. Team 9 picks from team 10's members bookshelves.

DO NOT PICK from a team member who has left the team during the game. Picks must come from current members.


Option 3
Not available this week

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Completion Post: Week 11

Wings
Rating: 2.5 stars
Review:

Anyar is a young guard in his country's army. His city has been chosen as a meeting place between his country and the neighbouring one for peace talks, since their countries are always at war. Although many of his countrymen hate, Anyar doesn't. With his different looks and black wings, Anyar catches the attention of the enemy envoy. Vanyae didn't come for peace talks, especially since the enemy wants his country to make all the concessions. He does have a plan to end the warring, and when Anyar catches his attention, Vanyae alters it a little. Along with an important prisoner, Vanyae takes Anyar back to his country and makes him his personal slave. Even though Vanyae treats Anyar nicer than other slaves, Anyar still doesn't have freedom, and as time goes on and different feelings develop between the two, that becomes more and more important to both of them.
I found this to be fairly slow going. As Vanyae's feelings toward Anyar morphed into more than what a master feels for a slave, he started to see what was going on around him with differently. He made personal changes in his treatment of those with less status than he, and effected the treatment by others in his actions. While Anyar appreciated the gentler treatment, he couldn't believe that Vanyae wouldn't grow tired of him and treat him like he had at first, or get rid of him altogether. As a reader, we got to see them together a lot, and not just in bed, but they seemed to be more in their own heads instead of talking to each other, so I'm not sure I completely bought their connection. This wasn't bad, it just didn't blow me away. I enjoyed the slightly different world, with wings being the only thing out of the ordinary, but without feeling the connection and love between Vanyae and Anyar, the story fell a little flat for me. This is my first book by this author, and I'm interested to see if others have the same quality of world building and character building, with a more fleshed out relationship building.

[☘KathyD☘]

UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "I'm going to post my completion post now, since I will not be around a computer or internet, and have to do everything on my phone. I'll edit it once I'm finished my book and do a separate post to ..."

thanks for letting me know!

[Geri]

Selection Post

Week # 11 - Option 1

The Aussie Next Door
Page numbers: 350
Qualification: First book on my series romance shelf, after setting list to random. (59 books on shelf)

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Hi, KathyD.

I've finished my completion post.

[Sexyladi]

🎁PASS THE PARCEL - Round 16🎁
🎁THEME - COUCHSURFING
🎁SELECTION POST WEEK 11🎁
🎁Date - 05/15/2021🎁
🎁 Option 1:
Option 1
13. Surf your own shelves.
* On your preferred TBR shelf, look at the beige bar at the bottom of the page - on the sort function, click on 'random' and then read one of the first 3 books that now appear at the top of your shelf.
You may use any of your TBR shelves so long as there are at least 15 books on that shelf. If the page count for any of the three books does not qualify for the challenge (that is, is less than 100 pages), you may select the next book that has appeared randomly on the list. You must use a list that does not contain books that you have already read IF you do not want to read them again. You cannot substitute for the next book on the list, as allowed with the page count. If 3 books are at the top of your list that you have already read, you must select one of them.
Please note again - there must be at least 15 books on your TBR shelf.

SSS: Year One by Avery Song
🎁 Pages - 686
🎁 Qualifications - The first 3 books on my tbr shelf after Random:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
SSS: Year One
Of Blood and Bone

[☘KathyD☘]

Week 11
Selection Post – Option 1


Fling, Jana Aston
Pages ➔ 100
How the Book Qualifies ➔ 2nd book listed on my “on-deck” shelf after randomly sorting

[☘KathyD☘]

Completion Post – Week 10


American Prince, Sierra Simone – 5/14/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Review — Not a bad follow up to the first book, but I felt too much of the book repeated what was said in American Queen. Also, while I understand Greer’s point of view was sort of necessary in this book, I wish it was integrated a bit less. We didn’t get any of Ash’s or Embry’s point of view in the first book, so I felt kind of cheated. Quite a few bombshells dropped in the final chapters, so I am eager to complete this trilogy.

[☘KathyD☘]

OK team...with the last task called here are where we are at with outstanding posts...

selection posts...
Week 11—Cyndee; Emeli

completion posts...
Week 9—Cyndee
Week 11—KathyD; Cyndee; Emeli; Gerry; Sexyladi

[Geri]

Completion Post

Week # 11

The Aussie Next Door
Rating: 4 ⭐️
Review: This was my kind of romance. A sweet, funny and hot romance. Jace, on the autism spectrum, was confused at times by Angie. That did make me smile. Jace was also doggy sitting and the dog antics made me chuckle too. We get introduced to other members of Jace’s family. And now I definitely want to continue this series!

[[deleted user]]

Hey team, had a little family drama but came by yesterday to post my completions & selection and saw that there was already a winner. It was nice playing with you all! Thanks for captaining Kathy!

[Sexyladi]

🎁b>PASS THE PARCEL - Round 16🎁
🎁THEME - COUCHSURFING
🎁COMPLETION POST WEEK 11🎁
🎁Date - 05/15/2021🎁
🎁 Option 1:
Option 1
13. Surf your own shelves.
* On your preferred TBR shelf, look at the beige bar at the bottom of the page - on the sort function, click on 'random' and then read one of the first 3 books that now appear at the top of your shelf.
You may use any of your TBR shelves so long as there are at least 15 books on that shelf. If the page count for any of the three books does not qualify for the challenge (that is, is less than 100 pages), you may select the next book that has appeared randomly on the list. You must use a list that does not contain books that you have already read IF you do not want to read them again. You cannot substitute for the next book on the list, as allowed with the page count. If 3 books are at the top of your list that you have already read, you must select one of them.
Please note again - there must be at least 15 books on your TBR shelf.

SSS: Year One by Avery Song
🎁 Pages - 686
🎁 Qualifications - The first 3 books on my tbr shelf after Random:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
SSS: Year One
Of Blood and Bones
🎁Date completed - 05/17 /2021
🎁 Rating - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Stars Audio Book
🎁 Review - 4 1/2 Stars
Exciting with a lot of twist and turns, especially Silvia and her four hunks. The Spy school is interesting, intriguing, exciting and dangerous I can't wait to read the next book in the series.

[☘KathyD☘]

sorry I feel off the face of the Earth...I've been sick the past week or so and I slept through the weekend. I had a great time playing this challenge with you all...see you next round! =)