Dom and Jannene Set the Bookshelves on Fire in 2022

[Jannene]

Series that cannot be salvaged

⭐️Texas Rangers series 3/3
✔️No Escape 👍🏻👎🏽
✔️You're Not Safe 👍🏽👍🏻

⭐️Throne of Glass series 7/7
✔️Empire of Storms👍🏽👍🏻
✔️Tower of Dawn👍🏽👍🏻
✔️Kingdom of Ash👍🏽👍🏻

⭐️Crimson Lake series 3/3
✔️Crimson Lake👍🏻👍🏽
✔️Redemption Point👍🏻👍🏽
✔️Gone by Midnight👍🏻👍🏽

⭐️Jane Hawk series 5/5
✔️The Whispering Room👍🏻👍🏽
Cherie joined us here!
✔️The Crooked Staircase👍🏻👍🏽
✔️The Forbidden Door👍🏻👍🏽
✔️The Night Window👍🏻👍🏽

Fire Spreading to Series

⭐️Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series 2/4
✔️Bad Wolf👍🏻
The Ice Queen
I Am Your Judge

⭐️Colter Shaw 0/3
✔️The Never Game👎🏻👎🏽
The Goodbye Man
The Final Twist

⭐️Shattered Realms series 2/4
✔️Shadowcaster👌👍🏽
Stormcaster
Deathcaster

⭐️Penn Cage series 3/6
✔️Turning Angel👍🏻
Cherie joined us here!
✔️The Devil's Punchbowl👍🏻👍🏽👍🏻
Natchez Burning
The Bone Tree
Mississippi Blood

⭐️Air Awakens series 1/5
reread Air Awakens
Fire Falling
Earth's End
Water's Wrath
Crystal Crowned

John Corey series 1/7
The Lion's Game
Night Fall
Wild Fire
The Lion
The Panther
Radiant Angel

Ancient Egypt series 1/7
The Seventh Scroll
Warlock
The Quest
Desert God
Pharaoh
New Kingdom

Helen Grace series 1/10
Pop Goes the Weasel
The Doll's House
Liar Liar
Little Boy Blue
Hide and Seek
Love Me Not
Down to the Woods
All Fall Down
Truth or Dare

Lincoln Rhyme series 6/15
✔️The Cold Moon👍👍🏽
The Broken Window
The Burning Wire
The Kill Room
The Skin Collector
The Steel Kiss
The Burial Hour
The Cutting Edge
The Midnight Lock

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series 1/22
Tears of the Giraffe
Morality for Beautiful Girls
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Full Cupboard of Life
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
The Double Comfort Safari Club
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Precious and Grace
The House of Unexpected Sisters
The Colors of All the Cattle
To the Land of Long Lost Friends
How to Raise an Elephant
The Joy and Light Bus Company

Book series safe…for now

Amos Decker series 0/6
Memory Man
The Last Mile
The Fix
The Fallen
Redemption
Walk the Wire

The Dagger and the Coin series 1/4
read The Dragon's Path
The King's Blood
The Tyrant's Law
The Widow's House

Flame in the Mist series 0/3
Flame in the Mist
Smoke in the Sun
Ghosts in the Mist

Rockton series 0/5
City of the Lost
Alone in the Wild
Watcher in the Woods
This Fallen Prey
The Deepest of Secrets
A Stranger in Town

Darkest Powers series 0/3
The Summoning
The Awakening
The Reckoning





⭐️ Indicates planned kills to finish this year

[Jannene]

Orphan Cemetery...One is such a lonely number...

✔️The Nameless Ones 👍🏽👍🏻
The Girl Who Lived Twice
Empire of the Vampire




Stand alones
✔️Before She Knew Him👍🏻👍🏽
✔️The Son 👍🏽👍🏻
✔️The Kind Worth Killing 👍🏽👍🏻
✔️The Humans 👌🏻
The Suspect

[Dominique]

Don't forget the Colter Shaw series!

[Cherie]

Glad to see you are keeping your series in sight, ladies! I need to do a wrap up and move my stuff over to a 2022 thread.

I think the only series we have in common, from your list is Penn Cage, but I will have to check.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I always love your thread titles! Have fun with your series reads. I really enjoyed the Jane Hawk series.

[Cherie]

Ah, yes, Jane Hawk.
I finished book 2 just last month, so book 3 is next up for me. Let me know when you might be reading it and I will join you if I can get it from my library.

[Jannene]

Awesome!!!

[Jannene]

Kristie wrote: "I always love your thread titles! Have fun with your series reads. I really enjoyed the Jane Hawk series."

Thanks Kristie! We have some catching up to do.

[Jannene]

Dom and I started the year off with an orphan, The Nameless Ones.

[Jannene]

Dom and I blew through The Nameless Ones so fast we burned the pages. It was a solid book and I loved having Louie and Angel have a book mostly of their own.

Next up, the long overdue Empire of Storms.

[Jannene]

We finished Empire of Storms. It was a good book but definitely not YA anymore with all of the sex scenes that I could do without.

[Jannene]

We are starting No Escape. Only two left in this series to finish.

[Cherie]

No Texas Rangers on my horizon, but I hope you enjoy the remaining books. :o)

[Jannene]

This is a rarity but I beat Dom, finished No Escape before she did. It was very good. I hope she ends up liking it.

[Jannene]

Next on the list is a standalone The Son.

[Jannene]

Finished The Son. It was very good.

[Jannene]

Starting You're Not Safe to finish the Texas Rangers series.

[Jannene]

Finished the Texas Rangers series.

[Janice, Moderator]

You two truly are on fire burning through those books.

[Dominique]

Janice wrote: "You two truly are on fire burning through those books."

Trying to keep up, Jannene is reader so fast!

[Jannene]

Janice wrote: "You two truly are on fire burning through those books."

Dom normally puts me to shame by finishing before me. We wanted to finish a few series and since some are quite chunky, we need to read with purpose. Haha

[Jannene]

Next up on our murder list is The Never Game, starting Wednesday.

[Jannene]

I’m not sure what to think of Colter Shaw in The Never Game. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has some form of autism.

[Jannene]

We finished and it was a mutual rating of being a generous 3 star. We are still deciding whether we continue with the series or not.

[Jannene]

We finished Tower of Dawn and we both enjoyed it a lot. Plan on finishing that series by reading the final book next month.

Starting The Whispering Room today.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I really liked the Jane Hawk series. Hope you ladies enjoy it.

[Cherie]

If I were not already reading 5 other books, I would try to get to the Jane Hawk book to read with you, but it is not available from my library right now. ;o(

[Jannene]

Well I haven’t gotten very far but we could wait up for you if you wanted on the next book.

[Dominique]

Jannene wrote: "Well I haven’t gotten very far but we could wait up for you if you wanted on the next book."

L'm not that far too. We can wait for you Cherie.

[Cherie]

Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "Well I haven’t gotten very far but we could wait up for you if you wanted on the next book."

L'm not that far too. We can wait for you Cherie."

Well, now I am embarrassed. I am sorry, but I already read it.
I was looking for a title from my museum challenge last year, and I saw the title in red.

I hope you enjoy it! Let me know when you are ready to read The Crooked Staircase

[Jannene]

Cherie wrote: "Let me know when you are read to read The Crooked Staircase."

Cherie, Dom is finishing The Whispering Room and then we are considering reading the next one. Would you be ready? If not, we can wait. Let us know.

[Cherie]

I downloaded the ebook from my library. I have it for the next 21 days. Say when and I will start it with you!

[Jannene]

Awesome

[Dominique]

I finished. We can start book 3 today!

[Cherie]

ok

[Jannene]

Woohoo!

[Cherie]

I started today. I got up to chapter 16 before I had to do some work.

[Jannene]

I’m at chapter 31. Eyelids can’t stay open.

[Cherie]

Holy Smoke, Jannene!
I hope you sleep well. 😊

I just got back home and wanted to read another chapter or two. I am in chapter 17 and what Jane is telling Gilberto just triggered me to remember what has been going on in this series. (view spoiler)[ the programming, etc. (hide spoiler)]. I had been having flashbacks to things that had happened before but not like this - until now. The story line with the twins has been “exciting”.

[Jannene]

Cherie wrote: "Holy Smoke, Jannene!”
I agree about the twins that’s why I couldn’t stop. Then at times I was cursing their stupidity. I’m off work today, I may leave you in my dust!

[Cherie]

I just finished up work for the day. You two have me at a disadvantage by just having finished the previous book. I finished it November 9th. Doesn’t seem that long ago but names are not coming back to me. (view spoiler)[Have these two guys, Carter Jergen and Radley Dubois been introduced before? Yes, the kids have seemingly been stupid but it feels right. At least they have gotten away so far. Why would they know about all the ways that they could be tracked? Why ARE they being pursued? Because they are writers???? (hide spoiler)]

[Jannene]

@Cherie(view spoiler)[I don’t recall these two being in any of the books before. The characters all tend to die, so they need new ones. (hide spoiler)]

I’m at chapter 108. I have a hard time putting this book down. I keep wondering how the series will all end.

[Cherie]

Understood, Jannene. I was watching Stargate Atlantis DVD with my granddaughter after we went and picked up pizza.

I am in chapter 35 (view spoiler)[ The bad guys just killed Rev. Gordon. The twins are eating sandwiches. Tania just pulled out the two vials of amber liquid. It just occurred to me that they might contain the nanobot serium stuff. Obviously you are waaaay far ahead, so don’t answer. 😊 Just thinking out loud. Jane is still talking to the Petra girl/woman. She is seriously scary. I am looking forward to her plan for capturing Simon. I hope the kids get away! (hide spoiler)]

[Cherie]

Just got to part 2.
(view spoiler)[Was Simon supposed to pick his brother up at the airport??? Too bad about the twins and yes, I got my answer about the nanobodies serum. Interesting change of code words. I hated the body snatcher movies!
(hide spoiler)]

[Dominique]

Jannene wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Holy Smoke, Jannene!”
I agree about the twins that’s why I couldn’t stop. Then at times I was cursing their stupidity. I’m off work today, I may leave you in my dust!"

Lol. They sound worst in the audiobook. I was cursing them!

[Cherie]

Dom,
My library doesn’t have the audiobook. Is the narrator good?
I am at part two, chapter 18. I am reading an ebook in ePub format. How is the audiobook divided up?
I noticed Jannene had posted once at chapter 108. In my book:
Part one has 55 chapters.
Part two has 31 chapters.
Part three has 28 chapters.
Part four has 36 chapters.
Part five has 30 chapters.
Darn - this is a looong book.

[Jannene]

They are in parts but the chapters do not restart at one. I just started part four. The end of part three has me worried.

[Jannene]

Okay, so the audio says the progress as combining all of the chapters but when you listen they do break them up. I was incorrect as they do say part 4, chapter 1.

I finished the book. Cherie, I can’t wait for you to finish to hear your thoughts and discuss.

[Cherie]

I just got to part three, which my ebook says is %50.3 So, I‘m half way done.

I am not sure how much I can get done during the week. I am getting a new laptop this week and have to spend a few hours at our work site. I haven’t been in the building since March of 2019. I have a new router to install and I need to clean out my office to move stuff that is all piled up around my desk. And work - sheesh!
I have been hit by so many request that I have had to create a priority list. New projects are starting up an older ones are trying to get promoted, which means ECOs are required for me to write or approve. 🤣

[Jannene]

No worries, Cherie. Take your time. The book was so engrossing that I couldn’t stop. I’m now back to my paperback. 😆