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R21: Team #6 ~ Six Degrees of Reading Celebration
Lady Jaye wrote: "Shelf: Magic/UsersTitle: Sapphire Flames, by Ilona Andrews
Date finished: 02 Mar r=2022
Series: Catalina Baylor #1
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
What a wild ride! The plot was top-notch: nonstop acti..."
I really love this entire family. I love that we can always count on Ilona and Gordon to write smart, capable, clever female leads.
I have a book, I'm reading. But it's difficult to update on my phone, so I'll do it when I get home. Also, good day, ladies. I hope you are all doing well
I’m having trouble picking a book. I think I’ve read almost every shifter book on the first five pages.
Danielle, do you have a shifter or shifters shelf? If so, have a look there.
Lol, Danielle, you and me both! I'd either read them, or they were books from series I'd stopped following awhile back. It took awhile, but I finally found one. Also, like Sandra suggested, the SOS shelf is also good ( it's much less cluttered!)
I'm not quite sure anymore how far into the list I went, but it was probably around page 10 or so haha.
I have read for the SHIFTERS shelf Beast Behaving Badly, by Shelly Laurenston
Shelved 250x as Shifters
379 pages
Shelf: ShiftersTitle: Beast Behaving Badly, by Shelly Laurenston
Date finished: 04 Mar 2022
Series: Pride #5
Rating: ★★★★
Review: I finished this book in one sitting - that is how much I liked it. I loved everything about Bo. He was as perfect a male lead as Ms Laurenston ever came up with - crazy, yes, but orderly and with a clear sense of boundaries. Loved him. I deducted one star, however for the female lead. Blayne really grew on me as the plot progressed, but in general, just....no. Nope. All in all, this book was big fun.
Yes shifters were my favorite supe for a long time so I ran through a lot of series. They are still one of my faves but I’m starting to enjoy magic users lately.
Danielle Book Boss wrote: "Yes shifters were my favorite supe for a long time so I ran through a lot of series. They are still one of my faves but I’m starting to enjoy magic users lately."Shifters are the best!
Hi ladies, hope your week is going great. I've been pissed off by what an author is doing to my favorite character for a couple of days now.
Also, I want to change my favorite couples book, since I am apparently reading EVERYTHING but Grace Draven at the moment.
So I am reading Emerald Blaze, by Ilona Andrews.
392 pages
It has been shelved 4x as favorite couple (not couples)
It also fits the alternative reader option of HAIL MARY (a book that shoulda been on the shelf but isn't - I mean, all we are missing is one 's').
So yeah. I started that today and am almost done. Review to come soon.
Shelf:Favorite Couples (Alternative Choice: Hail Mary)Title: Emerald Blaze, by Ilona Andrews
Date finished: 07 Mar 2022
Series: Catalina Baylor #2
Rating: ★★★½
Review: I mean, what else is there to say? Catalina and Alessandro's second adventure was fun, fast-paced, intriguing, but it left me with more questions than answers. What is it about Linus that Alessandro figured out? Why aren't we following it? Why won't someone just put Victoria Tremaine out of her misery already and free us all (she irks me). I liked seeing Nevada and Rogan again and am excited for the next book. I preordered it straight away!
Lady Jaye wrote: "Shelf: ShiftersTitle: Beast Behaving Badly, by Shelly Laurenston
Date finished: 04 Mar 2022
Series: Pride #5
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
I finished this book in one sitting - that is how much I lik..."
I was a huge Blayne fan before she got a book. She ranks up there as one of the most nnoying characters I've ever encountered.
Heheheh, I love it when a book throws up so many questions and leaves you raging and salivating because you want answers NOW but have to wait until the next book comes out. I mean, I hate it of course, but at the same time I just love it :-)
Lady Jaye wrote: "Hi ladies, hope your week is going great. I've been pissed off by what an author is doing to my favorite character for a couple of days now. "
I am intrigued now! What is happening to your favourite character??
Using your fav couple book for the alternative since unfortunately that 's' is missing and is needed for the shelf call. Definitely should be on that shelf as well though!
Favorite Couples stamp has been requested :-)
I really like the Hail Mary option!!
Yes! That was a really good idea to add as an alternative! Especially for shelves such as this one :-)
Eldarwen wrote: "Lady Jaye wrote: "Hi ladies, hope your week is going great. I've been pissed off by what an author is doing to my favorite character for a couple of days now. "
I am intrigued now! What is happe..."
I don't know how you feel about spoilers, so I will answer your question when you post your Wild Sign review.
Danielle Book Boss wrote: "Lady Jaye wrote: "Shelf: ShiftersTitle: Beast Behaving Badly, by Shelly Laurenston
Date finished: 04 Mar 2022
Series: Pride #5
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
I finished this book in one sitting - that ..."
I agree. Even though I got her more and more as the story went by, just...NO. No, no no! Nope.
Lady Jaye wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Lady Jaye wrote: "Hi ladies, hope your week is going great. I've been pissed off by what an author is doing to my favorite character for a couple of days now. "
I am intrigued n..."
Oh my god.... What is Patricia Briggs doing??? o.O
Now I'm scared haha. I just finished my Toby Daye book, so I'll start diving into Wild Sign tonight.
Well, she's not doing it to the main characters, so you may not care, but I am positively livid.
Completion Post
Magic / Magic Users
Book: An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
How it fits: shelved 5 times as magic users
Date Read: 8th March
Pages: 354
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
I am enjoying the wild ride that are the October Daye books, and I am definitely enjoying the banter with Tybalt. The King of Cats has a certain something that makes me swoon just a tad. I can't wait to see what Toby's next adventure will be. This one was a bit confusing at times, I have to admit, but I've decided to not try and wrap my head around all these things faerie that I keep forgetting in between books, and just enjoy the story and the characters!
Lady Jaye wrote: "Well, she's not doing it to the main characters, so you may not care, but I am positively livid."That depends entirely on the secondary character because some I really love.
Magic / Magic Users stamp has also been requested :-)
CONGRATULATIONS, Six Degrees!You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'favorite couples' and 'magic/users'.
[Your updated BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]
Good Job!! :D
Congratulations on the stamps 6°!
Completion PostShelf: Shifters
Book: Burn For Me by Cynthia Eden
Date Finished: 3/8
Rating: 2 stars
Review:
This was an action adventure novel so lots of running from here to there, fighting bad guys, meeting new characters who were betrayers as well as allies. But I can’t say I liked it. First, I don’t like shifter novels where the characters don’t fully shift. 2. I can’t stand the annoying reporter female lead trope. They are always written TSTL to me. 3. The male lead is written as the growly alpha and maybe that was okay for me a decade ago but I just need more. I don't like male leads who make relationship decisions and don't take time to talk to the female lead about the decision. At one point, this guy straight ditched her at a gas station. 4. Because of the ripping and running, I felt like the sexual relationship advanced while the emotional part was more of a trauma bond. Idk.
Some of the writing left something to be desired. After hearing the word fire for the 492nd time, I just rolled my eyes everytime it came around. Also - the narrator was fine for a woman but the male lead sounded like a boy in late teens.
Not for me and not interested in continuing the series.
D'aww, the name of the series sounded like something I might want to read. Surprisingly I like phoenixes ;-)Sounds like a terrible book though!
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who has a problem with Cynthia Eden..........As to Phoenixes, Eldarwen, have you read Helen Harper's
1st book in the Firebrand series. I really liked this series.
No, I have not! I shall have to take a look - thanks for the tip! :-)
Shelf #6 ~ 9 Mar 22: Urban FantasyDIRECT LINK - Urban Fantasy (+ SOS' UF & SOS' UF w/romantic elements)
Eldarwen wrote: "D'aww, the name of the series sounded like something I might want to read. Surprisingly I like phoenixes ;-)Sounds like a terrible book though!"
Lots of potential. Poor execution. Cynthia Eden is an author I have been circling around for years and was finally like okay let’s do this but it fell very flat for me. I like Phoenixes too! I’m going to try the Helen Harper series.
Danielle Book Boss wrote: "I’m going to try the Helen Harper series...."Eldarwen wrote: "No, I have not! I shall have to take a look - thanks for the tip! :-)"
Glad I could
For the Urban Fantasy Shelf, I will read Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep. Shelved 887x as urban fantasy
357 pages
Full disclosure: This book has been on my currently reading shelf since 2017. I start and stop immediately because Jennifer Estep's inability to use personal pronouns aggravate me to no end. It is not a re-read, nor have I made any headway through it. I will be reading from the beginning.
Yes... that tendency is somewhat annoying after a while (as well as mentioning full names on a very regular basis), but it gets better over the course of the series. I think. Or I have just grown immune to it?!I'm considering reading Heart of Venom for this shelf, but I'm not entirely certain yet. Will decide after I've finished Wild Sign.
Also, the audios for these books are good. I am not much of an audio fan - most voices/tones tend to grate on my ears very quickly - but these go down rather well.
Eldarwen wrote: "Yes... that tendency is somewhat annoying after a while (as well as mentioning full names on a very regular basis), but it gets better over the course of the series. I think. Or I have just grown i..."OMG thank you!!!! I don't know how her editors completely glossed over these writing crimes of war and let her get away with it
Selection Post - Urban Fantasy
Book: Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep
Pages: 358
Shelved 441 times as "urban fantasy"
Completion Post
Urban Fantasy
Book: Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep
How it fits: shelved 441 times as "urban fantasy"
Date Read: 15th March
Pages: 358
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
Thinking about it, this book was actually nothing extraordinary. And yet, it had a certain something that made me read it almost in one single sitting. Gin has her flaws but she is also loyal to a fault, which is something I admire about her character. If a wrong has been done, she will not rest until it has been righted, and a massive wrong has been done in this case. The recipe works, and Estep follows it with - sometimes - little variation. So far, I'm still hooked and interested in seeing what comes next.
Great review, Eldarwen. You are so right about this series. It somehow works, even with the editors letting those atrocities slide. KMT
Thanks! :-)It makes me curious and yet weary to try her other series, wanting to see whether the style has varied some or not. Maybe once I'm done with this series I might dip a toe into a different pond, but for now I'll just stick with the one.
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Is this the first of the Night Huntress spin-offs you've read?"
A while back I read Mencheres and Ian's stories. I don't remember loving them. And my ratings are 3 stars for those so I must have found them just okay. But I really enjoyed this one. And I actually went on to read the second book. That one was okay.