Hob Goblin Book Check-in

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Check in your completed books here

Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: (example: Witches)
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Rating:
Justification:
Book Points:
Team Total points:



Book Points:

Themes:
Oct 1-9 Witches
Oct 10-16 Vampires
Oct 17-23 Werewolves
Oct 24-31 Zombies

[Judith]

Completion Post

Theme week: Witches
Book: Girls Made of Snow and Glass
Author: Melissa Bashardoust
Pages: 376
Date Read: Oct 1
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Mina & Lynet are witches
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 3

[Leticia]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Ex Hex
Author: Erin Sterling
Pages: 320
Date Read: Oct 1
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Vivienne Jones is a witch
Book Points: 3 points
Team Total points: 6

[Cat]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Winter Witch
Author: Paula Brackston
Pages: 352
Date read 1 Oct
Rating: 3.5 stars
Justification: Witch in title
Book points: 3 points
Team total points: 11

[Kate]

Theme week: Witches
Book: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author: Libba Bray
Pages: 403
Date Read: Oct 2
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Story has a number of witches
Book Points: 3 points
Team Total points: 14

[Pasty Hag]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Witchcraft of Salem Village
Author: Shirley Jackson
Pages:144
Date Read: 10/03/2021
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: It's written about the Salem witch trials
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 16

[Pasty Hag]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Wicked Witch Murder
Author: Leslie Meier
Pages: 336
Date Read: 10/3/2021
Rating: 3
Justification: One of the main characters is a witch
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 19

[Judith]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Raven's Shadow
Author: Patricia Briggs
Pages: 334
Date Read: 10/3/2021
Rating: 5
Justification: multiple spellcasters in story
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 22

[Judith]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Cursed Mate
Author: Linsey Hall
Pages: 256
Date Read: 10/2/2021
Rating: 3
Justification: multiple spellcasters in story
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 24

[Shaw]

Completed Book:
Theme week: Witches
Book:
Author: Rachel Griffin
Pages: 297
Date Read: 10/4
Rating: 4
Justification: MC is a witch
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 26

[Maddy]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Equilibrium
Author: Katey Hawthorne
Pages: 103
Date Read: 10/3
Rating: 3
Justification: magic on the cover, MC has powers
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 28

[Maddy]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Riot Boy
Author: Katey Hawthorne
Pages: 120
Date Read: 10/4
Rating: 4
Justification: magic on the cover, MC has powers
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 30

[D.L.]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Brownies and Broomsticks
Author: Bailey Cates
Pages: 319
Date Read: 10/5/21
Rating: 2
Justification: MPG Witches
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 33

[Cat]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Wee Free Men
Author: Terry Pratchett
pages: 404
date read: 5 Oct
Rating: 5*
Justification: several fully trained witches in the book, plus witch in training Tiffany Aching
Book points: 3
Team points: 36

[Leticia]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Black Witch
Author: Laurie Forest
pages: 601
date read: 5 Oct
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: the MC is a witch
Book points: 4
Team points: 40

[Kaley]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Serpent & Dove
Author: Shelby Mahurin
Pages: 518
Date Read: Oct 5, 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: MC Lou is a witch, as are many other characters
Book Points: 4
Team Total points: 44

[Cat]

Theme week: Witches
Book: A Hat Full of Sky
Author: Terry Pratchett
Pages: 407
Read: 5 Oct
Rating: 5*
Justification: Tiff in training to be a witch, apprenticed to a full witch
Book point: 3
Team Points: 47

[Pasty Hag]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Among Others
Author: Jo Walton
Pages: 304
Date Read: 10/5/2021
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: MC's mother is a witch
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 50

[Sammy]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Witches Abroad
Author: Terry Pratchett
Pages: 295
Date Read: 06/10/2021
Rating: 4
Justification: witches in the title, witches on the cover, witches as MC and villains. all of the witches...
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 52

[Kate]

Theme Week: Witches
Book: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Mark Twain
Pages: 244
Date Read: Oct 5
Rating: 4
Justification: Tom speaks numerous times (Chapters 6-8, 25) about the imaginary role witches might play in some event he is caught up in
Book Points: 2
Team Total Points: 54

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Witches
Book:
Author: Elizabeth Lin
Pages: 408
Date Read: 10/7
Rating: 3
Justification: Character casts a spell on the MC
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 57

[Stacey]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Year of the Witching
Author: Alexis Henderson
Pages: 368
Date Read: 10/7/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Many witches in the story, plus title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 60

[D.L.]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Bras & Broomsticks
Author: Sarah Mlynowski
Pages: 310
Date Read: 10/8/21
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: MPG Witches
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 63

[Pasty Hag]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Halloween Tree
Author: Ray Bradbury
Pages: 145
Date Read: 10/08/2021
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: One of the characters wears a witch costume
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 65

[Kate]

Theme Week: Witches
Book: The Witches: Salem, 1692
Author: Stacy Schiff
Pages: 512
Date Read: 10/08/2021
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: All about the Salem Witch trials
Book Points: 4
Team Total Points: 69

[Shaw]

Completion Post:
Theme week: Witches
Book:
Author: Sarah Gailey
Pages: 336
Date Read: 10/9/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Tagged witches
Book Points: 3 points
Team Total points: 72

[Cat]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Pale Horse
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 332
Date Read: 9 Oct
Rating: 4*
Justification: the Greys present themselves as witches
Book points: 3 points
Team total: 75

[Leticia]

Theme week: Witches
Book: Born Wicked
Author: Jessica Spotswood
Pages: 330
Date Read: 9 Oct
Rating: 3*
Justification: Cate and her sisters are witches
Book points: 3 points
Team total: 78

[Pasty Hag]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Author: T.J. Klune
Pages: 398
Date Read: 10/09/2021
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: MCs are magical beings
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 81

[Cat]

Theme Week: Witches
Book: The Mercies
Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Pages: 336
Date read: 9 Oct
Rating: 4*
Justification: about witch trials in Norway
Book Points: 3
Team points: 84

[Karen]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Witching Hour
Author: Anne Rice
Pages: 965 pages
Date Read: October 9, 2021
Rating: 2.5
Justification: Main character is a witch
Book Points: 6 points
Team Total points: 87

[Kaley]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Ex Hex
Author: Erin Sterling
Pages: 309
Date Read: October 9, 2021
Rating: 4/5 stars
Justification: MCs are all witches
Book Points: 3 points
Team Total points: 90

Edit: I think Cat and Karen posted around the same time so our total points is actually 93?!

[D.L.]

Yes, we should actually have 93 points. :)

[Karen]

Kaley, you are right. I must have posted the same time Cat.

It's 93

[Stacey]

Theme week: Witches
Book: The Lighthouse Witches
Author: C. J. Cooke
Pages: 368
Date Read: 10/9/21
Rating: 4/5
Justification: Title, happenings tied to old witch trials
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 96

[Karen]

Theme week: Vampires
Book:Glass Houses
Author: Rachel Caine
Pages: 240
Date Read: 10/10/2021
Rating:3.5
Justification: The Series is Morganville Vampires
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 98

[Cat]

Theme Week: Vampires
Book: Monstrous Regiment
Author: Terry Pratchett
Pages: 480
Date Read: 10 Oct
Rating: 5*
Justification: Maladict and Otto Chriek are vampires
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 101

[Maddy]

Theme Week: Vampires
Book: Leave It All
Author: April Kelley
Pages: 166
Date Read: 10 Oct
Rating: 3
Justification: Villains are vampires
Book Points: 2
Team Total Points: 103

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Vampires
Book:
Author: Sean Gibson
Pages: 302
Date Read: 10/11/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Included bloodthirsty and undead creatures
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 106

[Sammy]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Dead Until Dark
Author: Charlaine Harris
Pages: 326
Date Read: 11/10/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Vampire on the cover, several vampires in the story
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 109

[D.L.]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Blood Curse
Author: Janice Harrell
Pages: 223
Date Read: 10/11/21
Rating: 1 star
Justification: Volume 1 in the Vampire's Love series
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 111

[Sammy]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Let the Right One In
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Pages: 513
Date Read: 12/10/21
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Eli is a vampire
Book Points: 4
Team Total points: 118

[Karen]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
Author: Drew Hayes
Pages: 300
Date Read: 10/11/2021
Rating:3.75
Justification: The main character is a vampire
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 120

[Leticia]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Ribbing and Runes
Author: Nancy Warren
Pages: 208
Date Read: 12/10/21
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: The book has vampires
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 122

[Judith]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Magic Bites
Author: Ilona Andrews
Pages: 368
Date Read: 12/10/21
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: The book has vampires
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 125

[Cat]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Author: Grady Hendrix
Pages: 410
Date read: 12 Oct
Rating: 4*
Justification: vampire is slayed in the book, also in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 128

[Cat]

Theme Weeks: Vampires
Book: Going Postal
Author: Terry Pratchett
Pages: 484
Date read: 13 Oct
Rating: 5 Moist stars
Justification: Otto Chriek is present, flashing and disintigrating (he's a vampire photographer, the flash tends to kill him....)
Book points: 3
Team Total Points: 131

[Stacey]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Fledgling
Author: Octavia Butler
Pages: 310
Date Read: 10/13
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: MC and others are Ina, what humans think of as vampires
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 134

[Cat]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Thud!
Author: Terry Pratchett
Pages: 464
Read: 14 Oct
Rating: 5*
Justification: Sally the vampire joins the Watch and hangs out with Angua and Cheery
Book points: 3
Team total points: 137

[Judith]

Theme week: Vampires
Book: Magic Burns
Author: Ilona Andrews
Pages: 261
Read: 14 Oct
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: vampires in story
Book points: 2
Team total points: 139