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Week 6~Old Spot 35 Rolled 8New Spot 43
Alternative #43~2011
Minttu~
ReviewSandy~
ReviewJulie~
ReviewLaurLa~
ReviewAngie~
Review
I'm going to go with alternative option
by Beth Revis
This one has been in my TBR pile since it was published :D
Ubah wrote: "Week 5 spot 35 
Finished: 4/23/15
Rated:5 stars
Review:
This book by Cassandra Clare is absolutely amazing I love Clary and Jace and everything to do with shado..."
I really liked this series and I thought it got better with each book. My favorite character is Simon! :-)
ARGGHH!!!! I am an hour away from finishing
. I even started it last night and stayed up way too late reading. I should have know better - the odds of us getting 40-something were pretty good. Definitely didn't think that one through. Ah well - diving into TBR now for something else...
I'm waiting to see what my Bingo book is. I've had good luck with using 1 book for both games!
Minttu wrote: "I'm going to go with alternative optionby Beth Revis
This one has been in my TBR pile since it was published :D"
Great book!
Ubah wrote: "How many more weeks do we have?"We play until someone gets to the end (100). Maybe 4 - 6 more weeks (?)
We're in week 6 on spot 43. There's a team on #53.
So until we randomly roll a 100 then we still have to play
Ubah wrote: "So until we randomly roll a 100 then we still have to play"If you need to drop out of the game, it's ok! Just let us know. :-)
Minttu wrote: "I'm going to go with alternative optionby Beth Revis
This one has been in my TBR pile since it was published :D"
OK I have to add this to my TBR too!
Sandy wrote: "Ubah wrote: "So until we randomly roll a 100 then we still have to play"If you need to drop out of the game, it's ok! Just let us know. :-)"
No i dont want to drop out of th game i was just wondering
Ubah wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Ubah wrote: "So until we randomly roll a 100 then we still have to play"If you need to drop out of the game, it's ok! Just let us know. :-)"
No i dont want to drop out of the game i was just wondering"
Week 6~Spot 43
by Annette BlairFinished:4/25/15
Rating:4 Stars
Review:Lady Jade Smithfield runs a home for battered and abused women. Jade hires Marcus Fitzalan to be her man of affairs to discover what was stolen from Jade's accounts. Sparks fly between Jade and Marcus but Jade can't let Marcus into her heart. Can Marcus change Jade's mind
How are everyone's books coming along?
I'm loving Across the Universe. I will finish it tomorrow but due to work will probably post my review quite late my time (gmt +2), before Friday though :)
I'll also finish it before friday and have my review before friday
RL has squeezed me tight this week. I'll be reading my book tonight but may not have my review in before Friday morning my time (US eastern). I'll have it in as soon as possible Friday. So sorry to hold us up on the roll. :-(
RL has kicked my butt too!Hope to finish tonight, but it will be late!
Week 6 spot 43
Finished: 4/30/15
Rating: 3 stars
Review: I really really loved Sabriel. It is one of my favorite books. I am unsure if I would have liked Clariel more if I hadn’t read the first one or if the book really was just mediocre. Clariel spent the first hundred pages telling everyone repeatedly she just wanted to go home and she was going to leave the first chance she got. If that was repeated less I would have found her far less annoying. I was also frustrated when she complained about the king and lack of action. It was hypocritical of her, she thought he should step up and help his country, when all she wanted to do was leave the city and go back to her forest. It did get better after a while and I did enjoy the writing style.
Week 6 - spot 43 - alternate 2011
By Beth Revis
Read: 30th April 2015
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
I was a bit vary of this book, although I've only heard good things about it, because it's set in space and future and me and scifi have not always seen eye to eye. However the story was easy to get into and the characters very relatable.
We meet Amy whose parents have been deemed essential to NASAs space mission to find and inhabit a new planet. They all need to be frozen and will spend the next 300 years on board the spaceship. Then we meet Elder, who has been born on Godspeed the century ship travelling in space. He is to become the future leader of these people. Then Amy is accidently unfrozen and other strange things begin to happen on board the ship.
I loved how this book was so much more than just YA romance or scifi. There are underlying themes of equality and technology versus humanity. How not all progress is maybe for the good and if being similar to one another is really the only way to get along. It's a very captivating and interesting read and made me think, which is what I always love.
Week 6, spot 43
Finished 4/30/15
Rating: ★★★★
Review: In this installment Harry Dresden is caught between two warring Faerie courts. He's also in trouble with the council for inciting a war with the Vampire Red Court. A person he thought was dead comes back, and he continues to feel guilt for (view spoiler). I'm amazed with Jim Butcher's intricate plot lines, and I keep wondering how much more damage Harry can endure to his body. I also wish I had a dollar for every time he says Hell's bells. On to the next book!
Week 6Spot 43: Fourth in series
Book:
Read: 04.30.15 [or very very early May 1 ;-)]
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
I am loving this series by Jill Shalvis - each one gets better in my opinion. What I most enjoyed about this one was how strong the heroine, Kate, is. She is a nurturer and needs to take care of those around her (often to her own detriment) but she doesn't do it out of martyrdom or with any feelings of resentment. Kate truly loves taking care of those she loves. But I also loved how she was willing to let the Grifin take care of her some as well. She knew the power of taking something for herself, whether in the form of quiet time to be by herself, going after 'naked adventure' or letting someone take care of her for a bit. Griffin was so very good for Kate in this way, not to mention deliciously sexy ;-) Can't wait for the next installment.
Hey is it okay if i pause playing the game for a while. ☺
Week 7~Old Spot 43 Rolled 8New Spot 51
Alternative #51~2002
Minttu~
ReviewSandy~
ReviewJulie~
ReviewLaurLa~
ReviewAngie~
Review
Week 7 spot 51
Read:5/7/2015
Rating:4 stars
Review: I started this series because I liked the television show. One of the best characters in the tv show was Edgar. I was wondering where the character had come from, then we were introduced to him here in book five. I found it weirdly exciting.
Week 7Spot 51: Standalone
By Marian Keyes
Week 7~Spot 51
by Sherrilyn KenyonFinished:5/4/15
Rating:5 Stars
Review:Nykrian is a League assassin of the highest order but his last job left a bitter taste in his mouth. Nykrian creates the role of Nemesis to keep from being hunted done. Kiara Zamir is a dancer by trade yet she's very unhappy with her life. She's kidnapped and nearly raped before being rescued by Nemesis' team. Will She seen behind the lie? Find out in Born of Night.
Week 7: Spot 51
(standalone)Finished: 5/3/15
Rating: ★★
Review: Set in Boston in the late 19th century, a group of literary leaders gathers to translate Dante's Inferno and bring the Italian poem to the States. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell realize that a serial killer is using Inferno as a guide to his grisly acts. Their task is to find the murderer before he strikes again. This book should have been right up my alley since I was an English major and I love literary mysteries. Unfortunately, the author was more interested in showing off how much he knows about Dante than creating a good story that makes the reader wants to keep turning the pages. This book was painful to read and terribly boring. If I wasn't reading it for another group challenge, I probably would have shelved it under DNF.
Week 7Spot 51: Fifth in series
Book:
Read: 05.05
Rating: ★★★1/2
Review:
I mostly liked this book - I've really enjoyed the series but the first person narration bothered me a bit this time where I don't remember even noticing it in the previous books. I also thought this one sounded a lot more NA than I remember the others. Don't know if there's a real difference in this one or if it just hit me differently for some reason. The storyline was good. Flynn was almost too good, too perfect. He knows he has a hero complex but it he doesn't care. He does what he feels he has to do even when he knows he's going to take shit for it. I really thought the conflict would come from there but there is no conflict on his part. He started out wanting to help Rowan because of said complex but he knew it and it didn't cloud his ability to see her as a person. He started to fall for her after being around her for awhile and he fully realized that she didn't need fixing - she was down on her luck but would survive with or without him. His feelings for her were perfectly healthy. The conflict was with her and her inability to trust and to be open to others. Near the end, I got really frustrated with her wishy washiness and I never felt she took responsibility for her own actions that caused her to end up in New York alone. We can all blame our parents for our baggage and she had legitimate reasons for hers, but she chose to continue to act out so much that she ended up disowned. She could have made different choices, so to keep blaming her parents after 5 years for her inability to trust in feelings just seemed self-indulgent to me.
I liked how it ended - Flynn did end up saving her, just not in a physical way. Without his actions, Rowan would never have been able to move forward and they would never have been able to have their HEA. I will say that as much as Rowan frustrated me at times, I did appreciate that she recognized how much Flynn did for her and gave her and never took it for granted.
How are your books Minttu and Julie?
I have a couple of chapters left. Reading right now :)
Week 7Spot 51: standalone
by Marian Keyes
Read: 7th May
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
The Woman Who Stole My Life tells a story of Stella Sweeney, a self-help author whose first and only book, One Blink At a Time became quite the phenomenon. She was whisked around the US on book tours, wore designer clothes and was living the dream.
When the book begins, we are in Dublin, Stella has a writer's block, her clothes have magically shrunk, her teenaged son seems to hate her and her ex-husband has decided to get his own 15 minutes of fame by giving away all his material possessions.
The book follows two different stories; Stella now and Stella's bestselling book telling her story, how she fell ill all of a sudden and her life as she knew it was over in a blink of an eye.
The beginning was a bit confusing and there was a lot of things left unsaid, but I kind of liked that it was purposefully vague. I as a reader knew things were kept from me and wanted to read on to find out why.
Ultimately this is a love story and a story of one woman discovering and re-discovering herself. I absolutely loved the premise of a self-help guru fallen back on her old behaviors, struggling to take her own advice and make sense of this life.
Week 8~Old Spot 51 Rolled 6New Spot 57
Alternative #57~France
Minttu~
ReviewSandy~
ReviewLaurLa~
ReviewJulie~
ReviewAngie~
Review
Week 8 spot 57Book:
.Read:5/14/15
Rating:3 stars
Review: This is another series I started because I liked the television show. My biggest problem with these books is Brennan tends to go off and do stupid things without consulting anyone else. I would have hoped by book number 7 she would have learned that lesson. I do like Ryan and most of the scenes with him are fun.
Week 8~Spot 57
by Guy Stanton IIIFinished:5/8/15
Rating:4 Stars
Review:Loric Ta'lont world changed when an unknown enemy attacked everyone he knows or cares about on Thunder Ridge. Loric's life is taken in the hands of his enemies. He becomes the ultimate warrior and soldier for them. Loric's life changes again because of Kana. How will Kana change Loric? find out in A Warrior's Revenge.
I'll be reading a book set in France
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Finished: 4/23/15
Rated:5 stars
Review:
This book by Cassandra Clare is absolutely amazing I love Clary and Jace and everything to do with shadowhunting. The action is on point all I want to do is get inside the book and kick some Demon a** Clary knows nothing about her supernatural heritage her mom and dad are both shadowhunters which are humans with angel blood. The bad guy Valentine which you soon find out he's Clary's dad wants this thing called the Mortal Cup supposedly Clary's mom hid the Cup from valentine and ran away. Now Clary and Jaces brother and sister (not by blood) are trying to find it first. It is just crazy how Clary falls for Have and how in the end she can't be with him because.... you have to find that out by your self. All I'm saying is that this book is amazing and you should read it.