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📦Completion Post📦 Week: 6
Option 1: Task: 5 The French Institut national de l'audiovisuel defines K-pop as a "fusion of synthesized music, sharp dance routines and fashionable, colorful outfits."
* Read a book with a colorful (energetic) cover. The cover must have at least 5 separately identifiable colours from: White, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink, Purple, Blue, Aqua, Green, Grey & Black.
Please state your identified colors.
Book: Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison Varnes
Link: Property of the Rebel Librarian
Allison Varnes
Pages: 288 KE
How it fits: Cover has: yellow, blue, red, green and orange
Completed: 5/14/2022
Rating: 4
Review: I love books about books… although this was slightly over the top and at times unbelievable. I thought it took on a very serious topic, banning books/censorship etc and for the age group it was written for, it was a start.
Week 7Completion Post
Shiver by Jocelynn Drake & Rinda Elliott
320 pages
#6 Millionaire MM
date read: 5/15/22
4 stars
I liked this. The story between Andrei and Lucas. Andrei who didn't know if he was gay or not and then millionaire Lucas, who meets Andrei after Andrei is assigned to be his bodyguard following a street mugging.
An interesting story and Iook forward to reading the rest of the series.
Week 7 Completion PostRead a book from one of the three lists posted about billionaires/millionaires.
Clutch by Piper Scott & Virginia Kelly
Pages: 240
Qualification: #49 on MM Romace w/ Millionaire List
Read: 5/15/22
Rating: ★★★★
I don't think I've read a dragon egg book before but this was super fun. Nate's snarky personality made it for me. Alistair was just the sweetest but his family sure leaves something to be desired. They did nothing but insult him through the whole book. The other characters were great and the story itself was completely entertaining. Will definitely continue with the series. Dragons, who knew?
[*book:Clutch|42208487]
Week 7 - Selection PostRead a book from one of the three lists posted about billionaires/millionaires.
Book:
Pages: 206
How it qualifies: no 688 on the listBest falling in love with a millionaire/billionaire/king/wealthy man
[*book:Melting Steel|31299479]
📦Selection Post📦 Week: 7
Option 3
How it fits: PASS
📦Completion Post📦 Week: 7
Option 3
How it fits: PASS
Week 8- Selection PostRead a book with a character who is struggling with mental health or works in the medical field.
Book: The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun
Pages: 358
Qualification: Main character with anxiety per main page genre: Health > Mental Health, and per summary: In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.
Week 8 Selection PostRead a book with a character who is struggling with mental health or works in the medical field.
Heartscape by Garrett Leigh
Pages: 240
Qualification: MPG Mental Health
[*book:Heartscape|56403162]
Week 7 - Completion PostRead a book from one of the three lists posted about billionaires/millionaires.
Book:
Pages: 206
Read: 20 May
Rating: 3⭐️
How it qualifies: no 688 on the listBest falling in love with a millionaire/billionaire/king/wealthy man
Review: Henry wanted to be a knight as a child. He met Keeley who was 2 years younger than him and looked like she needed protecting. Her mum was having an argument with his friend Abby’s dad. Henry gave Keeley his sword so she could use it to protect herself from bad people. Years later they meet again although they don’t make the connection. Keeley again needs help and Henry has the need to be the one to protect her from her situation.
[*book:Melting Steel|31299479]
Week 8 Selection PostRead a book with a character who is struggling with mental health or works in the medical field.
Book:
Pages: 366 as per kindle edition in above link
How it qualifies: Tagged mental health by 8 people p1, c3
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
[*book:Inappropriate|50540689]
Week 8 Completion PostRead a book with a character who is struggling with mental health or works in the medical field.
Heartscape by Garrett Leigh
Pages: 240
Qualification: MPG Mental Health
Read: 5/21/22
Rating: ★★★★
The book rating was hard for me on this one. Between 3 and 4 stars but I'll go with four because it did keep me coming back. It was quite the slow burn, friendship turns to romance type book with a whole lot of inner dialogue and giving each other space even if they didn't want to. They seemed to tip toe around each other even though they both said they didn't want that. We got to know Jax better because he was more open with his past and by the time we got to Tanner it just fell kind of flat for me. Not sure why. Maybe all the build up? Not sure. Anyways, like their romance a whole lot.
[*book:Heartscape|56403162]
Week 8 Completion PostRead a book with a character who is struggling with mental health or works in the medical field.
Book:
Pages: 366 as per kindle edition in above link
Read: 22 May
Rating: 4⭐️
How it qualifies: Tagged mental health by 8 people p1, c3
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: Starting off quite light hearted and funny with Ireland contacting the CEO of her company because she was wrongly fired. A relationship develops between her and her CEO Grant and all seems to be progressing nicely until he tells her he never wants children.
The story is told in dual POV and covers that Grant was fostered and his parents also took in a girl called Lilly who eventually he marries. Lilly develops the same mental health condition her mum has and a horrific event happens with their baby leaving Grant feeling he unable to love. Ireland also has experienced traumatic incidents in her child hood.
The book covers some heavy topics relating to mental health and infant death but I thought it was written about very well by Vi Keeland.
[*book:Inappropriate|50540689]
Week 8 - Completion PostRead a book with a character who is struggling with mental health or works in the medical field.
Book: The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun
Pages: 358
Qualification: Main character with anxiety per main page genre: Health > Mental Health, and per summary: In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.
Read: 5/23/22
Rating: ★★★★★
Review:
Yeah, so this book was written for me. I loved it. I loved Charlie. He was absolutely perfect. I also related to him so much, and I have never ever read any book with such a good description of asexuality. I'm not demisexual so I can't speak on that aspect, but this book legit described feelings and thoughts that I thought I was the only person in the world having. A+ on that. I've read some really horrible characterizations of asexuality (I'm looking at YOU, The Love Hypothesis) and this one was excellent!
The mental health aspect of this book was also really well done. These two characters were so sweet and supported one another. I'm here for it. The secondary characters were great, the queer representation was good, I thought, and I actually really liked the backdrop of the reality tv show. The plot was great, and I loved it all up to the very end.
Five stars for me.
Jodi wrote: "📦Completion Post📦 Week: 7
Option 3
How it fits: PASS"
Hi Jodi - don't forget to get your selection for Week 8 in before I announce the next call in 15 hours or so.
Up to date other than Jodi's selection for the current week.
Week 9- Selection PostRead a book with an handsome man on the cover.
Book: Thick as Thieves - Lucy Lennox
Pages: 278
Qualification: Per cover above, handsome male on cover.
Week 9 Selection PostRead a book with an handsome man on the cover.
Lethal by Reese Knightley
Pages: 260
Qualification: Ooh la la!!
[*book:Lethal|60501525]
Week 9 Completion PostRead a book with an handsome man on the cover.
Lethal by Reese Knightley
Pages: 260
Qualification: Ooh la la!!
Read: 5/28/22
Rating: ★★★★
This is one of those book where you're just waiting for one of the MCs to figure out the big secret. And you wait and wait and they find out and it's no big deal. Hmm. That was anticlimactic. I did enjoy the book but I was more invested in the action adventure aspect than the romance. I mean the romance was nice but the other parts I loved. I guess you could read this before reading her previous series but you'll enjoy it more if you read them first. Will definitely continue with these guys.
[*book:Lethal|60501525]
Hi! I’m going to have to drop this challenge. I am so sorry. I’m having to much trouble getting links to work and GR to work on my iPad. Maybe it’s my internet but this particular challenge is hard when you can’t access links and posts, I just can’t stress about it right now. Maybe I’ll give it another go when I get my electronic situation figured out. Thank you everyone! Happy Reading!!
Week 9 - Completion PostRead a book with a handsome man on the cover.
Book: Thick as Thieves - Lucy Lennox
Pages: 278
Qualification: Per cover above, handsome man on cover.
Read: 5/29/22
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
I'm a complete sucker for a good best friends to lovers romance, and this one was a really good one. I loved Julian and Parker both, and I loved all their friends (though there were maybe TOO many characters, but I think that's probably because this was a part of a series and I haven't read the other books) and I even liked Erin even though she did some questionable things. The dialogue was witty and clever and so was the storyline and the characters motivations. It was just well done in general. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of a few personal preferences which I don't even need to mention, but it's not the author's fault. Great book, highly recommended!
Jodi wrote: "Hi! I’m going to have to drop this challenge. I am so sorry. I’m having to much trouble getting links to work and GR to work on my iPad. Maybe it’s my internet but this particular challenge is hard..."Sorry, Jodi! Hope to see you back later! I know I can't read this challenge at all from my phone.... it just keeps crashing! I definitely have to use my laptop. The goodreads app just sucks!
They need to make the app user friendly! Hope to see u in some other challenges down the road!
Week 9- Selection PostRead a book with an handsome man on the cover.
Book:
Pages: 168
How it qualifies: Handsome man on the cover
[*book:Blackburn|40511093]
Week 9- Completion PostRead a book with an handsome man on the cover.
Book:
Pages: 168
Read: 31 May
Rating: 3⭐️
How it qualifies: Handsome man on the cover
Review: This was a short story but covered a lot. Lillian travelling with the boss of the company in South America when they are kidnapped and held for ransom. Usually Gabe is standoffish with her and he’s grumpy on the trip as well. Lillian wasn’t aware that he was being standoffish as he was attracted to her.
Luckily Gabe used to be in the Army and uses his training to get them out the hostage situation and makes his feelings clear to Lillian.
I think the book could definitely have been longer as I struggled to get much of a sense of both characters beyond Gabe being a strong, moody, protective type and Lillian being bubbly and fun with inner strength
[*book:Blackburn|40511093]
Week 9- Selection PostHandsome man on cover
165 pages
Week 9 Completion PostPortals and Puppy Dogs
165 pages
Date read: 5/31/22
3.5 stars
I am not really sure why I dont gel with this series as I like Amy Lane and also like magic books. The coven just seem to be languishing trying to prevent an even bigger problem.
A short book took a long time to read.
All up to date!Sorry you had to pull out Jodi, but I completely understand. I don't do any GR stuff on the App...
Week 10 Selection PostOption 1
* Read a book with a 9 in the page numbers.
Fool Hearts by Emmy Sanders
Pages: 294
[*book:Fool Hearts|60387417]
Week 10- Selection PostRead a book with a 9 in the page number.
Book: Sweet as Honey - Lucy Lennox
Pages: 319
Qualification: 9 in page number.
Week 10 Completion PostMy Past, Your Future
109 pages
Date read: 6/4/22
4 stars
An unusual pairing of a history professor and a ghost from the Civil War. The ghost begins to rematerialize and the 2 develope a relationship. Might have been nice to have a slightly longer book to flesh out the story.
Week 10 Completion PostOption 1
* Read a book with a 9 in the page numbers.
Fool Hearts by Emmy Sanders
Pages: 294
Read: 6/4/22
Rating: ★★★★★
It took these forever to get together but the ride to get there was so sweet, sad, frustrating, heartbreaking....So good! Easton was the kind of friend we all wish we had. He stuck by Wyatt through thick and thin even when it was painful. Their son was freaking hilarious and played a great part in this book. I cried, I laughed, just loved it!
[*book:Fool Hearts|60387417]
Week 10- Selection PostRead a book with a 9 in the page number.
Book: Sweet as Honey - Lucy Lennox
Pages: 319
Qualification: 9 in page number.
Read: 6/7/22
Rating: ★★★
Review:
So... I've read two other books in this series and this is my least favorite one. The writing is decent, and I'm still interested in the overall story of the series. It's just that the romance did absolutely nothing for me, and I really did not like Truman. I found nothing about Truman/Sam sexy or romantic. Yikes. Also, half of this book is NOT a romance, it's some half baked mystery instead, which is not my genre of choice. Besides being interested in Mikey and Tiller's continued story, the only thing in here that really interested me was Sam and his relationship with his toxic family. In fact, the first 30% of this book damn near put me to sleep.
So how to rate this? I don't feel like this deserves the three stars I'm giving it, but I also gave The Love Hypothesis 2 stars and that book was absolutely horrendous, so I don't feel like it deserves that either. So I guess 2.5? This is definitely the worst book in the series so far. I hope the next one is better.
Week 10 SelectionBook:
Pages: 291 as per kindle edition in above link
How it qualifies: Has a 9 in the page count
[*book:Dominate|40780723]
Week 10 Completion Book:
Pages: 291 as per kindle edition in above link
Read: 7 June
Rating: 4.5⭐️
How it qualifies: 9 in the page count
The conclusion of the Harris books was very fitting. I loved that we got to see more of Vaughn and that him and Gareth were able to try and heal their damaged relationship. I also liked the development in the actual relationship with Gareth and Sloan and how they worked that out between them and built their families into the story. A very good series and I’m looking forward to reading more from Any Daws in the future
Week 11 Selection postBook:
Pages: 183
How it qualifies: Number 125 on the list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Royal Playboy
Hazel wrote: "Week 11 Selection postBook:
Pages: 183
How it qualifies: Number 125 on the list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
[book:Royal Playboy|4..."
An unfortunate cover until you click on it. Looks like the fellow has a spangly bra on if you just look at your post!!
Week 11 Selection PostOption 1
Take by Ella Frank
Pages: 346
Qualification: #21 on Best Gay Romance
[*book:Take|17798654]
Week 11- Selection PostRead a book from a list featuring the "perfect" character.
Book: Shock and Awe - Abigail Roux
Pages: 125
Qualification: #33 on the following list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Jane (PS) wrote: "Hazel wrote: "Week 11 Selection postBook:
Pages: 183
How it qualifies: Number 125 on the list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
[book:R..."
😂😂 I never noticed that until you said.
Thanks for a fin round. See you all next time
Thanks everyone. Enjoyed playing this round with you all x
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Read a book from one of the three lists posted about billionaires/millionaires.
[Book: The Real Thing - Melissa Foster
Pages: 288
Qualification: #310 on List--> Billionaires, Millionaires, Tycoons and Other Utterly Rich Romance Heroes
Read: 5/14/22
Rating: ★
Review:
First off, I really can't stand alpha male heros, but it seems like every book in this category is filled with them, so I just found a KU book I could read for free. I'm not sure if that was a mistake because this one was BAD.
This whole book is just two characters lusting after each other for no reason. There is not much of a plot, just a bunch of sickeningly sweet interactions that made me want to puke. I felt absolutely no romance for them, and they were both so annoying that I had a permanent look of annoyance or disgust on my face all the way through. I lost count of how many times I rolled my eyes.
This may be someone's thing, but it's not mine. One star.
Note: a well done alpha hero with some good vulnerability... sign me up. Where are those books? I'm guessing they're not on KU.