R22: Team #1 ~ First Ladies

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Team #1
Captain: Rosina

Members:
Moondance
Rosina
Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Just a Hop, Skip & Click Away
Happy Reading!

Shelf Announcements ~ Check for the latest shelf announcement & review the requirements for each shelf
Captain's Log ~ Share team shelf stats prior to requesting a stamp
Stamp Me! ~ Request a stamp for your bingo card
Discussions ~ Throughout the game, head here to chat with other players & shelf chant til your heart's content
Bingo Rules ~ Rules of the game
Free Space Rules ~ Where to look when pickin' your free space book
Bingo FAQ ~ Don't hesitate! If you have a question, let us know.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Hiya, Team Caps! Thanks for volunteering to guide your team through a round of BookShelf Bingo!

Your job, should you choose to accept it, will require a few things:
1 ~ Be our go-to person should we have any questions about your team
2 ~ Organize your teammate's weekly reads for each shelf/category so that the BSB Ninjas can quickly and easily verify and approve your stamp request(s)
2a ~ Create a master list in a post (preferably on the first page of your team's thread) and update it weekly or as often as necessary
2b ~ Post your team's stats on the Captain's Log prior to requesting a stamp
3 ~ Encourage and motivate your team (you may also ask to borrow Judithe's whip whenever necessary)
4 ~ Post regularly to ensure your team is communicating and on track each week
4a ~ Send them a PM and friendly poke if they haven't posted at least once a week, noted their book choice, and/or appear to have dropped out of webspace
5 ~ Send us a PM (Steph, Sandra or Judithe) should you need us for any reason throughout the game

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Link to print a copy of your bingo card: https://imgur.com/sJpHYyP.jpeg

[Steph, Serious series addict]

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[Rosina]

Hi great to be back for bingo....
Looking forward to some spooky reads this month...
Think ive been on teams with you both at some point....ive been with SOS for 11 years....time flies wowsa...

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Just checking in from Las Vegas (PST time zone).

Have played before. No burning desire to be team captain. Team name suggestions "One Up" or "One and All" (not set on either, just what popped up first).

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Rosina wrote: ".ive been with SOS for 11 years....time flies wowsa..."

🥰 Thanks for stickin' with us, y'all! We love that we have such long-term members.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

For my free space, I'll read Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill from group bookshelves. Unless fits tomorrow's shelf call.

I'm likely selecting some books from a recent Story Bundle deal https://storybundle.com/witches

[Moondance]

Hi! It’s nice to see familiar “faces”! I’m looking forward to playing. I prefer not to captain this round. I’m terrible with names. I’ll think a bit snd get back with you.

[Rosina]

hi Moondance & Debbie.....I don't mind being captain...
I'm in Alberta so MST...
team names hmmm....

The First Ladies
One and Done
won Direction

[Moondance]

I like the First Ladies.

I'm in NC so EST. Thank you for offering to captain, Rosina. I'm a mod on a group that we are doing a blackout bingo. We are in week 19 and I'm a bit overwhelmed. It seemed like a good idea at the time...

[Moondance]

Selection Post

Free Space

Venom in the Veins Jennifer Estep

Qualification: The Elemental Assassin series is on the group's best of UF list.

[Rosina]

reserved for Master List

[Rosina]

Suggestions for team name

One Up
One and All
The First Ladies
One and Done
Won Direction

Debbie what's your preference?

[Rosina]

Team 1 "First Ladies" ~ Week 0 ~ Free Space / Stamp Req'd

✔️ Moondance ~ Venom in the Veins by Jennifer Estep 4✮ Oct 9 2022 Review
✔️Rosina ~ The Veil by Chloe Neill 4✮ Oct 19 2022 Review
✔️Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) ~ Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill 4✮ Oct 10 2022 Review

Team 1 "First Ladies" ~ Week 1 ~ Vampire(s) / Stamp Req'd

✔️Moondance Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter 3✮ Oct 11 2022 Review
✔️Rosina Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead 4✮ Oct 10 2022 Review
✔️Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) The Hob and Hound Pub by Seana Kelly 3.5✮ rating Oct 9 2022 Review

Team 1 "First Ladies" ~ Week 2 ~ Witch(s) / Stamp Req'd

✔️Moondance Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur 4✮ Oct 18 2022 Review
✔️Rosina The Sight by Chloe Neill 4✮ Oct 24 2022 Review
✔️Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn 2.5✮ Oct 18 2022
Review

Team 1 "First Ladies" ~ Week 3 ~ Haunted/Magical House / Stamp Req'd

✔️Moondance Be My Ghost by Carol J. Perry 4✮ Oct 24 2022 Review
✔️Rosina The Ghost of Marlow House by Bobbi Holmes] 3.5✮ Oct 26 2022 Review
✔️Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) Ghostly Charms by Lily Harper Hart 3.5✮ Oct 31 2022 Review

Team 1 "First Ladies" ~ Week 4 ~ Paranormal Romance/ Stamp Req'd

✔️Moondance Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews 5✮ Nov 3 2022 Review
✔️Rosina Running Hot by Jayne Ann Krentz 4✮ Nov 5 2022 Review
✔️Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) Charmed and Dangerous by Lindsay Buroker 4✮ Nov 3 2022Review

Team 1 "First Ladies" ~Shelf 5: Ghoul, Ghost, Spirit, Poltergeist

✔️Moondance The Trouble with Twelfth Grave by Darynda Jones 5✮ Nov 11 2022 Review
✔️Rosina Ghostly Interests by Lily Harper Hart 4✮ Nov 11 2022 Review
✔️Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) Gone With The Ghost by Erin McCarthy 4✮ Nov 8 2022 Review

Shelf #6 ~ 12 Nov: Urban Fantasy

✔️Moondance Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews 5✮ Nov 17 2022 Review
✔️RosinaOcean's Justice by Demelza Carlton 3✮ Nov 13 2022 Review
✔️Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) Bitter Bite by Jennifer Estep 4✮ Nov 12 2022 Review

[Rosina]

My Free Space Choice is found on the bookshelf 2015-rls

by Chloe Neill

[Rosina]

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "For my free space, I'll read Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill from group bookshelves. Unless fits tomorrow's shelf call.

I'm likely selecting some books from a recent..."

Thanks for providing the StoryBundle link. I hadnt heard of it before. Love supporting Indie Authors!

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I vote "First Ladies" (2nd choice "One and All").

[Rosina]

Thanks Debbie will go submit our name First Ladies

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Rosina wrote: "Thanks for providing the StoryBundle link. I hadnt heard of it before. Love supporting Indie Authors..."

YW. Not all indie authors, though. A mix and some like Klasky are hybrid.

[Rosina]

First Shelf called

Shelf #1 ~ 8 Oct: Vampire(s)
DIRECT LINK(s) ~
vampire
vampires
SOS' "vampire" shelf

[Moondance]

Selection Post

Shelf 1: Vampire(s)

Twice Tempted Jeaniene Frost

Tagged 1030 times on vampires shelf

[Rosina]

Selection Post
Shelf 1: Vampires
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
On page 23 of SOS shelf Vampires Tagged 5162 times

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

For vampires from SOS shelf The Hob and Hound Pub by Seana Kelly.

[Moondance]

I need to change my Vampire book. After I started listening to it I realized that I had already read it. I'll find something else today.

[Moondance]

Selection Post

Mercy Blade Faith Hunter

On page 9 of Vampires shelf-tagged 284 times

[Moondance]

Completion Post

Free Space

Venom in the Veins Jennifer Estep


Read: 10.09.22
Rating: 4 stars
Review:

"Tonight is going to be awesome."

Finn's boss Stuart Mosley is attacked after a dinner with Finn and Gin. As Gin looks into the assault she is drawn into a web involving a former hit and the long reaching tendrils of now dead Mab Monroe.

I was binge reading this series for a while and then just let it go for a bit. This installment did not disappoint. Gin's dream sequences give us a glimpse into her past. I kept waiting for her to
realize that the dreams were a clue to the current situation.

The mysterious Hugh Tucker of the even more mysterious Circle plays a big part in the plot. I'm not sure how I feel about his actions towards Gin. He is such a contradiction.

Alanna Eaton is a wicked vampire who is back in Ashland to recover her family estate. The fact that Alanna has ties to Gin through her work as the Spider is intriguing and adds lots of action to the story.

This book is filled with vicious fights, family secrets, and lots of good food. (Although the Pork Pit is not as front and center as usual.)

I both read and listened to this book. Even knowing that it is set in the South (and being a Southern), the narrator threw me a bit in the beginning. Finn's voice did not sound at all like it does in my head. It was still enjoyable.

I highly recommend this series if you have not had the chance to meet Gin Blanco.

[Rosina]

Moondance wrote: "Completion Post

Free Space

Venom in the Veins Jennifer Estep


Read: 10.09.22
Rating: 4 stars
Review:

"Tonight is going to ..."

Great review....I read the first many years ago and really enjoyed...then started collecting the books but just didnt get back to it....perhaps its time....

[Moondance]

Rosina wrote: "Moondance wrote: "Completion Post

Free Space

Venom in the Veins Jennifer Estep


Read: 10.09.22
Rating: 4 stars
Review:

"To..."

I read six or seven back to back. I knew I needed to get back to it to see what was going on with The Circle. There was a bit of a bombshell at the end. I probably should have read the next one for vampires.

[Rosina]

Completion Post

Week 1 Vampires
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead


Read: 10.10.22
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
I really enjoyed this read. This was a quick light read. I will continue the series. Different take on vampires. They are called Moroi and they feed but do not kill their feeders. There are Strigori who are undead and are out to kill the Moroi. Then here are Guardians who pledge to protect the Moroi. They story is a typical YA story. Nothing earth shattering.

[Moondance]

I finished my vamp book Tuesday night. Yesterday was a 14 hour day and today is looking like that or more. I’ll get the review in before the next shelf call.

[Rosina]

Hows is everyone doing this week? Had a busy work week. Hubby is sick with a cold.
Monday I started a book for another BR I am doing and thought "oh I just read couple chapters and day and be ready for the discussion on Sunday. Well I have only 1 hour left to read. "
Unfortunately is not on SOS shelves for a free space read.
really enjoying the book.

Hope to start my free space read tonite.

[Moondance]

Rosina wrote: "Hows is everyone doing this week? Had a busy work week. Hubby is sick with a cold.
Monday I started a book for another BR I am doing and thought "oh I just read couple chapters and day and be read..."

I hope hubby feels better. That book looks interesting.

Today should be a normal 8-9 hours. At least I’m seeing patients today and not in the OR. I’m getting too old to stand for 12+ hours at a time.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Rosina wrote: "Hows is everyone doing this week? Had a busy work week. Hubby is sick with a cold.
Monday I started a book for another BR I am doing and thought "oh I just read couple chapters and day and be read..."

Hope hubby feels better.

I finished my vampire book and the free space read. Will have posted before shelf call, hopefully today.

I enjoyed Vampire Academy well enough. The last few books really got better. Liked the bloodlines spinoff much better.

Anyone watching the Peacock/NBC/Universal channel tv series? So far, I like it well enough. They moved setting from USA to undisclosed Eastern Europe looking location which was okay (all the slavic sounding names and customs plus "court" stuff works better in a castle setting). Most of the characters seem softened and younger but at least aren't as angsty.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Vampires shelf

The Hob and Hound Pub by Seana Kelly
Finished: October 9, 2022
Series: Sam Quinn, #4
Rating: ★★★½☆
Number of pages: 377

Review: A good book. But, honestly, didn't seem to be a part of the series. Maybe because a change of location away from pub and lack of familiar characters that gave the series its "flavor."

Sam and Clive take their honeymoon in Europe. A few opening romantic pages then off to briefly (and boringly) hit various countries with murky stalkers and "battles" or murkier conversations with fae, dragons, vampires -- including notorious historical figures she should have been excited to meet that were bland -- finishing with some resolution to the dragon's story.

Had this been a short story of the beginning and ending, would have liked it better. I love the series and this installment did move the storyline along. But the originality of worldbuilding and depth of characters I enjoyed was missing.

There was a bonus short set back in the pub and a prequel to this that made the read worthwhile and improved my star rating. Not sure it's included in every edition.

Still continuing the series. Hopefully next book returns to what it was in first three books. I noticed author was blogging about her real life European trip so possibly this book was some chunked in notes from that versus actually Sam and her pub and love of reading and interesting gang of characters.

[Rosina]

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "Rosina wrote: "Hows is everyone doing this week? Had a busy work week. Hubby is sick with a cold.
Monday I started a book for another BR I am doing and thought "oh I just read couple chapters and ..."

I havent started the series yet. Thinking i might after I read the 2nd one. It does look interesting. I watched the movie but I dont remember it all that well.
I do have all the books and the spinoff series. Hoping to get them all read in the next 6 months.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Free Space from group bookshelves

Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill
Finished: October 10, 2022
Series: Heirs of Chicagoland, #3
Rating: ★★★★☆
Number of pages: 336

Review: Enjoyable read. Still missing the action and intensity of the root Chicagoland series -- but Elisa and Connor are really growing on me as they grow as adults and in their relationship. That's the enjoyable part. Yes, they are standing on their own two feet but it was disappointing how little support they had from Ombudsman and others. The battles and villain didn't do it for me; I hope they don't keep introducing new characters as red herrings or murky intentions.

Enjoyed it a lot, partly because author is a very good writer. It did feel like it was a filler episode rather than move plot significantly along. Looking forward to more in series.

[Moondance]

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "Rosina wrote: "Hows is everyone doing this week? Had a busy work week. Hubby is sick with a cold.
Monday I started a book for another BR I am doing and thought "oh I just read couple chapters and ..."

I think I read the first Vampire Academy book and didn't go any further. I've never seen the series.

[Moondance]

Completion Post

Mercy Blade Faith Hunter


On page 9 of Vampires shelf-tagged 284 times

Read: 10.11.22
Rating: 3 stars
Review:

I rolled over, taking most of the covers with me as I stretched.

The third book in the Jane Yellowrock series opens with Jane and her new boyfriend Rick clearing out her apartment in the NC mountains. She has accepted a long-term contract with Leo, the Master of New Orleans. Without warning, weres come out to the general public and all hell breaks loose.

I really liked the ftrst two books in this series. This one fell a bit flat for me. I still adore Jane and her kickass ways, but she seemed a bit whiny and clingy about Rick and his "disappearance". Personally, I would rather see her with Bruiser. Although Bruiser's loyalty to Leo could be a problem.

Jane is set up time and again in situations that could easily lead to her death. Fortunately, Girrard "Gee" DiMercy comes to her rescue when he is introduced. Gee is Leo's former Mercy Blade and is trying to get back in his good graces.

The whole situation with Rick drove me nuts. I know he is an undercover cop and has to do things that do not blow his cover. However, I think he really pushed it to the limit. I was feeling pretty good about him when the book opened with him and Jane in the mountains. It quickly went downhill after that. And I not sure I can even come to terms with his ending in the book. Of course, as much as this book didn't speak to me, I will have to read the next one to see what the heck happens.

Then we have Molly's sister, Evangeline. I don't know what scheme she is running but it does not bode well for Jane.

The book had some great battle scenes. The ongoing good vs evil and evil vs evil is a great storyline. Perhaps I wasn't feeling the book because I listened to it rather than reading it. Although the narrator did a good job. Sometimes I just have to go back and hold the book in my hand to get the full effect. I really do like Jane and her inner Beast/Big Cat and want to continue with the series.

Actually, more of a 3.5 than a true 3-star rating.

[Rosina]

Shelf #2 ~ 15 Oct: Witch(es)
DIRECT LINK(s) ~ Witch, Witches or SOS' "witches/magic" shelf

SOS Witches
witches
witch

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I'll read Karma Inc. by Melanie James for witches (from group shelf).

Unless it sucks -- new to me author -- at which point I'll pick something else.

[Moondance]

Shelf 2: WITCH(ES)

Hell's Bell Keri Arthur


Tagged 31 times as witches

[Rosina]

Happy weekend. I submitted for our Vampire stamp. Im about 50% done on my FS read and quite liking it.

Will take a look at what I can find for witch week.

[Rosina]

I will continue with The Devil Isle series and read

One person shelved it as witch.

[Moondance]

Rosina wrote: "I will continue with The Devil Isle series and read

One person shelved it as witch."

Gotta love that one person.

[Rosina]

I was thinking that too...

I've read Keri Arthur....enjoy her writing..

Deb I have that one on my kindle....must have been a freebie....hope it works for you...

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I'm switching my Witches book to Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, 139 people shelved as "Witches."

Karma Inc. didn't hold my interest. I love a good coneuppance but I did not engage with any of the characters because they didn't seem to be engaged with anyone or anything. It was trying too hard to be funny.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Moondance wrote: "Shelf 2: WITCH(ES)

Hell's Bell Keri Arthur..."

I love her Lizzie Kate series!

[Moondance]

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "I'm switching my Witches book to Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, 139 people shelved as "Witches."

Karma Inc. didn't hold my interest. I love a good co..."

Good to know because I think I have it on Kindle as well.

I really enjoyed the first book in the series. I started listening to this one last evening.