TART Challenge - Round 3 - Rainbow Commandos (6)

[Emilienne]

Oh gosh, green cover... 😂

[Emilienne]

Selection post
Off the Ice by Avon Gale
275 pages/GR (Kindle first Edition)

How it fits:

[Helke]

selection post green cover
Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux 108 pages /GR kindle first edition

[*book:Shock & Awe|18777316]

[Gustaf]

Helke wrote: "selection post green cover
Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux 108 pages /GR kindle first edition

[*book:Shock & Awe|18777316]"

Helke, the books have to be 150 pages or more, sadly :(.

[Gustaf]

Completion post:
Task 1 - Green Cover

Borrowing Blue by Lucy Lennox
307 pages/GR
How it fits: Green cover (approved by Mkat)
Completed 3/16
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
This book is just a whole lot of fun. It's a great introduction to the family and all the craziness surrounding them. I like both Blue and Tristan as MC's. Could do without the whole villain ex wife thing though.

[Diane]

Completion Post -- Task 1 -- Green Cover

Book: Forging the Future by Mary Calmes


Pages: 174 or 200 (both listed as first Kindle Ed)
How it fits: Green cover
Completed: March 16
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I don't know why I took so long (years!) to get around to reading this fifth and final book of the series. It was a good story, with a great ending for all the characters. I think perhaps it was the amnesia trope that it started with that kept me back. However, I actually quite enjoyed it. Mary Calmes has created a very interesting world and mythos for her panther shifter society. My only complaint would be that it felt like it was bogged down a little with all the terminology for the various jobs and positions.

[Diane]

Hey, for those of you who have played before, what happens now? I think we wait until everyone posts a completion, but then what? Is there a standard wait time before the next task? How does that actually work?

[Helke]

Sorry for the mishap. Will go and look for a different book asap.

[Helke]

Does it have to be the cover of the edition I read or can it be another cover? Because I would read the fire's stone by Tanya Huff It is on the green cover list but only the paperback has the green cover. My edition has a red cover.

[Helke]

If that doesn't work I'll read Borrowing Blue. Might need a few days for it tho as I have to work a bit more at the moment.

[Gustaf]

Helke wrote: "Does it have to be the cover of the edition I read or can it be another cover? Because I would read the fire's stone by Tanya Huff It is on the green cover list but only the paperback has the green..."

I'm going to ask, but since we are going by the first kindle edition I don't think it should be a problem.

[Gustaf]

Diane wrote: "Hey, for those of you who have played before, what happens now? I think we wait until everyone posts a completion, but then what? Is there a standard wait time before the next task? How does that a..."

When everyone has posted their completions, I or someone else will post it in the announcement chat and then Mkat will give us a new task. I think she does it every second day or something like that.

[Helke]

If that doesn't work I'll read Borrowing Blue. Might need a few days for it tho as I have to work a bit more at the moment.

[Gustaf]

Helke wrote: "If that doesn't work I'll read Borrowing Blue. Might need a few days for it tho as I have to work a bit more at the moment."

No problem. We are playing for fun this round so no stress.

[Gustaf]

Helke, you can use any cover as long as it's a real cover.

[Helke]

Great. Have been listening while driving to and from work. So habe at lest a few chapters done. Will read about this evening too. So should be finished tomorrow evening.

[Gustaf]

How are we doing on the reading? :)

[Helke]

60% done. Hope to get a lot father along today. Had a few crazy busy days.

[Helke]

Finished. Sorry for the hold up.

[Helke]

completion post
The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff

pc: 312 (GR kindle first edition)
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[*book:The Fire's Stone|338131]

[Emilienne]

Helke wrote: "Finished. Sorry for the hold up."

I'm sorry as well, I'll post mine in a few minutes!!

[Emilienne]

I'll be quicker with the next task

[Emilienne]

Completion post
Off the Ice by Avon Gale
275 pages/GR (Kindle first Edition)
Read date 03.20.21
Rating 3.5 stars
Review: nothing new, it's a bit too... Gentle for me 😂 but it was interesting I like nothing more than mature characters (well at least one of them was).

How it fits:

[Gustaf]

Helke wrote: "completion post
The fire's Stonehenge by Tanya Huff

pc:
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars"

Can you add a page count, a few words as a review and links to your completion post when you have time? :)

[Gustaf]

Emilienne wrote: "Completion post
Off the Ice by Avon Gale
275 pages/GR (Kindle first Edition)
Read date 03.20.21
Rating 3.5 stars
Review: nothing new, it's a bit too... Gentle for ..."

I think I gave this one two stars.

[Gustaf]

Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "completion post
The fire's Stonehenge by Tanya Huff

pc:
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars"

Can you add a page count and links to your completion post when you have time? :)"

The cover is 54.3% green. https://labs.tineye.com/color/1b5c9cc...

[Helke]

Gustaf wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "completion post
The fire's Stonehenge by Tanya Huff

pc:
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars"

Can you add a page count and links to your completion post when you have time? ..."

Please don´t tell me it isn´t enough. I don´t want to read a third book for this task.

Added all the required things to my completion post. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Couldn´t do that from my phone.

[Gustaf]

Helke wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "completion post
The fire's Stonehenge by Tanya Huff

pc:
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars"

Can you add a page count and links to your completion post when ..."

Thank you :D

[Helke]

Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "completion post
The fire's Stonehenge by Tanya Huff

pc:
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars"

Can you add a page count and links to your complet..."

when do we get the next task?

[Gustaf]

Helke wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "completion post
The fire's Stonehenge by Tanya Huff

pc:
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars"

Can you add a page count and links ..."

If I remember right, Mkat is handing tasks out every other day so probably tomorrow.

[Helke]

Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Gustaf wrote: "Helke wrote: "completion post
The fire's Stonehenge by Tanya Huff

pc:
read: 03/20/21
rated: 5 stars"

Can you add a page co..."

Ok so I can start another book before that.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

How tasks are handed out is really pretty simple. When you finish a task, I will assign the next task the next time I get to my computer to confirm it unless you finish the task in one day. For example, the first task was assigned on the 15th, you finished today so I will give you your next task in just a minute. The soonest you can get your next task is the 22nd, so if you finish Task 2 tomorrow you would have to wait a day. If you finish Task 2 on the 22nd or later, you would get Task 3 the next time I get to my computer. (I do ask for 24 hours to confirm and assign tasks should I ever get a life again...) So tasks can be assigned every second day for your team or longer depending on when you finish the current task.

I hope I explained that well!

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task!

Task 2 - 12. Read a book recommended to you by a teammate - no pass for this task.

You can do the recommendations however you wish - to the group, to each individual, to the person below you on the list or ?? - it's up to you. If you want to provide a specific shelf to pick from, it needs to have a minimum of 10 books on it. Please include the person who recommended your selected book and the message number of link to the recommendation.

[Gustaf]

This is one of the things we didn't get to beforehand. So I would say that it's easier to just go for a recommendation for the person below you on the list.

So:
Me rec for Helke
Helke for Em
Em for Diane
Diane for Me

What do you guys say?

[Helke]

I would like it if we could rec 3 books each for the team and we all can chose from that list. Of course not the books we recommended but from all the other recs. That way we have a bit of leeway to find a book we might like to read.

[Gustaf]

Let’s do that!

[Emilienne]

Gustaf wrote: "Emilienne wrote: "Completion post
Off the Ice by Avon Gale
275 pages/GR (Kindle first Edition)
Read date 03.20.21
Rating 3.5 stars
Review: nothing new, it's a bit ..."

Well there was nothing special, but the writing was good. I think.

[Emilienne]

So let me have a look of what I read and liked and post three book for you all (if I have a correct understanding)

[Helke]

Ok I'll try to be gentle;).
The fire's stone by Tanya Huff (fantasy, magic, slow romance)

Death and destruction by Patricia Logan ( LE, mystery, action)

Inherit the sky by Ariel Tachna (outback Australia, farmer, contemporary)

Hope you like at least one of these.

[Gustaf]

Okay so I've been going through my favorite shelf and been trying to find some books that you guys might enjoy...

Passions of a Papillon - Cute little mystery.
Fresh Catch - All the summer vibes, steamy and an adorable grumpy guy.
Surreal Estate - A psychic that can "talk" to houses!!

I hope you can find something good here.

[Helke]

Sadly we've already filled all Reverse cards this month.lol

[Gustaf]

Helke wrote: "Sadly we've already filled all Reverse cards this month.lol"

Oh god, there was so many of them. I'm impressed with Ann, reading M/M just to fill them up.

[Emilienne]

So a few books I liked lately...
Cry Wolf but I recommend all the series. Oliver and Cooper. Basics.
Pins and Needles a nice story
Just Friends (Gustaf genre ^^)

[Gustaf]

Emilienne wrote: "So a few books I liked lately...
Cry Wolf but I recommend all the series. Oliver and Cooper. Basics.
Pins and Needles a nice story
Just Friends (Gust..."

Janine and I did a buddy read for Just friends :D Such a cute book.

[Helke]

Oh I think I'll go with Pins and needles. I loved it the first time I read it.

[Gustaf]

So far I think i'll go for Inherit the sky but I'm waiting for Diane's recs.

[Diane]

So sorry guys have been busy catching up on some family time and now past 1 am. How about:
Loving Jay by Renae Kaye a sweet romance
Nor Iron Bars a Cage by Kaje Harper for some paramormal
Sanctuary by Kelly Fox which I just read and enjoyed the writing

[Gustaf]

Selection Post - Task 2
Loving Jay by Renae Kaye
202 pages/ Gr

How it fits: Recommended by Diane

[Diane]

Selection Post -- Task 2
Passions of a Papillon by Tara Lain
Number of pages: 210 (Kindle Ed)
How it fits: Recommended by Gustaf

[Emilienne]

Helke wrote: "Oh I think I'll go with Pins and needles. I loved it the first time I read it."

So did I!!!