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Michelle wrote: "Michelle's Week 10 Completion Post
Book - Fade Out
Author - Rachel Caine
Date - 4/30/24
Pages - 237
Rating - 1 star
Review/Rant - Sadly..."
You made it further than me. I really wasn’t enjoying that series, and the cliffhangers made me so mad. 10 years ago I wasn’t very good at stopping a series. Book 6 didn’t have a cliffy, so I stopped there.
Laura wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Michelle's Week 10 Completion PostBook - Fade Out
Author - Rachel Caine
Date - 4/30/24
Pages - 237
Rating - 1 star
Re..."
I should have stopped at book 6 as well, but because it was Rachel Caine I kept going. This one was so bad that I decided enough was enough. Claire is just TSTL and the attempted suicide one of the old ass vampires did was just really ridiculous and stupid.
Completion Post - Week 11Spot: 78
Book: Seventh Seal
Date Read: 5/2
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 285
How it fits: Lovin' the Coven #7
Review: It's been awhile since I read the last book, but I was able to continue the series without to much head-scratching. There were 6 books of lead-up to this ending, and then it felt pretty rushed. Also, I was reminded that I paused because the way Dot keeps adding to her harem was really annoying. She sees; she likes; the other guys convince her to add.
I haven't seen any posts from Samantha this week about picking any books. Did she decide to leave the challenge?Also, is this Week 10 or Week 11? I know we sat out a week, but it still existed. :)
Laura wrote: "I haven't seen any posts from Samantha this week about picking any books. Did she decide to leave the challenge?Also, is this Week 10 or Week 11? I know we sat out a week, but it still existed. :)"
I asked, but received no answer, so I think that is a no.
We are in Week 11
..WEEK 11 SPOT 78 COMPLETION POSTS.LAURA
Book - Seventh Seal
Author - Jacquelyn Faye
Spot: 78
Date Read: 5/2
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 285
How it fits: Lovin' the Coven #7
Review: It's been awhile since I read the last book, but I was able to continue the series without to much head-scratching. There were 6 books of lead-up to this ending, and then it felt pretty rushed. Also, I was reminded that I paused because the way Dot keeps adding to her harem was really annoying. She sees; she likes; the other guys convince her to add
MICHELLE
Book - Fade Out
Author - Rachel Caine
Date - 4/30/24
Pages - 237
Rating - 1 star
Review/Rant - Sadly, The Morganville Vampire Series and I need to part ways. I'm done with whatever ridiculousness is going on in that town and the idiot characters living there. This is book 7 and I have not seen a single character have any growth. Not a one. How is this even possible? Claire is still a naive dip shit who lets herself continuously get bullied by the mean girl and her entourage, but still goes out of her way to help them while being bullied. She's not afraid of them, nor are they vampires so what's the deal? Why has Claire not gotten her drivers license yet. You would think after 7 books of being harassed every time she walks somewhere she would do something to avoid it. Nope.
Michael is the most boring vampire in existence. Shane has anger issues and still is uptight with Michael being a vampire. What Clare sees in him blows my mind. Eve is phony. She's a little girl playing goth dress up with the IQ of a grapefruit. The vampires in the town are still fighting over the same old shit. Nothing is new in this series except for a few characters here and there. It's still not enough to keep me interested. I hope the entire town eventually burns to the ground taking every single character with it. I'm out!
MAMACITA
Shelter for Adeline
Author - Susan Stoker
Rating - 3.5*
Date Read - 4/28
Pages ~ 350 pages
How qualifies ~ Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Series #7
Review ~ Crash & Adeline meet when her date walks out cause she's let's him know she has to get somewhere safe because her service dog, Coco, is alerting her that she is about to have a seizure.
Crash comes to the rescue and takes her across the street and then to the fire station, (he's a paramedic), for a safe place for her to ride out her seizure. Not only does he stay with her during the seizure, but he proceeds her to take her to lunch afterwards.
Little does she know, he noticed her when she first walked in the restaurant. Crash asks Adeline out for a date the following weekend & takes her on the first day of a lifetime. They go to a glass blowing demonstration where he makes a special trinket for her. Then he takes her to dinner then he brings her back to the fire station to get on the ladder in bucket to go up and watch the sunset from the ladder and bucket of the fire truck. He was all alpha & very dreamy!
Unfortunately there's the bad guy who is obsessed with Adeline in between that and her seizures they have a hard row to hoe. But all the fire station are there to help them through it.
What I love most about Susan Stoker books is even the best most gorgeous & fit guys love ordinary women. Even women with disabilities are not looked down on and instead treated with love and respect.
I know that alot of people don't like the instalove, but I still like the thought of love at first sight.
MICHELLE
Week #8: Spot 78
Death of a Crafty Knitter
Author - Angela Pepper
Pages: 348
How it fits: Starts with D
Rating: 5/5
Loved it!!!! This is how cozy mysteries should be like! Well... kind of. I think I loved the idea of this book more than the actual book. Like it has a great rating for me but reread value is zero.
I really loved the main character but the other characters were meh like Tony was just so annoying and Dimples too himbo
STORMIE
Book - Daisy Darker
Author - Alice Feeney
Week 10: Spot 78
Alternate: Starts with 'D'
Pages:338
Rating 5 stars
Review
This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and I must say she is a master (0r is the proper term mistress) of locked room mysteries. Daisy is the youngest sister of a dysfunctional family. Rose is the oldest, a veterinarian, Lily is unemployed and milking the (British) unemployment system and Daisy does volunteer work. Nancy and Frank, their parents are divorced and tolerate each other. Nana, the matriarch of the family lives on an Island in the Atlantic Ocean in a house named Seaglass. Nana had her fortune told long ago by a Palm Reader in Land's End, so she is expecting to die on her 80th birthday. Trixie is Lily's fifteen-year-old daughter and is a lot nicer than her mother is or is she?
Daisy "was born with a broken heart" is how the novel begins, her family was going to let her die, but the midwife had other plans. Her mother didn't want her, she was hoping for a son after two daughters. She became the least favorite child. She died again on her fifth birthday, trying to swim to America, but her sister Rose performed CPR on her. She was the broken child no one thought that she would live beyond the age of fifteen.
The night before Nana's 80th birthday, they gather at the house for the family reunion, and then one by one the family members are murdered. Nana is expecting it, but what about the rest of them? Nana had made her money by illustrating children's books and then she wrote her own about Daisy. The family all want her money because, besides Rose and Frank, none of them worked, they just sponged off Nana. We wouldn't be complete without the lights going out and finding dead bodies. So, first, Nana's head is bashed in, Frank is poisoned, and Trixie is found with Nana and Frank in the cupboard, left for dead, she had blood between her toes, possibly from an insulin injection. Lily is found poisoned by her perfume Poison and Trixie shoots Rose. But as far as Daisy is concerned, Triex told her that she could not kill her because she was already dead. Conner and her sisters killed her when she was thirteen by throwing her off a cliff because they thought that she had died when Conner hit her with his car. I was wondering if Daisy was dead for this story just by the way that no one seems to notice her. Trixie also had the same heart condition as Daisy, but had the surgery that she never did, to fix her heart.
*No review from Samantha for the 2nd time*
We are in week 11. That week we skipped had me confused. This week will be Week 12.
Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Mama's Ready Reader One Completion Post Week # 10 ~ Spot #78
Book ~ Shelter for Adeline 3.5* ✔️ 4/28
Author ~ [author:Susan Stoker|82471..."
I was confused, we are actually in week 11. Sorry about that!
@Stormie & MichelleAre you y'all good with your books this week? Will you be posting today or tomorrow?
Completion post. Week #11Week #8: Spot 78
Book: Death of a Crafty Knitter
Pages: 348
How it fits: Starts with D
Rating: 5/5
Loved it!!!! This is how cozy mysteries should be like! Well... kind of. I think I loved the idea of this book more than the actual book. Like it has a great rating for me but reread value is zero.
I really loved the main character but the other characters were meh like Tony was just so annoying and Dimples too himbo.
Who is rolling this week?
Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Who is rolling this week?"Looks like the schedule only goes through last week. But if we start at the beginning again it will be Michelle (Captain).
I have had a rough week, but I will still get my book read, reviewed, and posted before the deadline.
Mod
I have now sent her a message as well asking for her to let either the team or me directly know whether you should wait for her.
Without a firm answer from her either way, you'll have to wait out the deadline before you can roll. Hopefully she'll check in.
Denise wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I asked, but received no answer, so I think that is a no."I have now sent her a message as well asking for her to let either the team or me directly know whether you should wait ..."
Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Who is rolling this week?"Laura wrote: "Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Who is rolling this week?"
Looks like the schedule only goes through last week. But if we start at the beginning again it will be Michelle (Captain)."
I'll roll since I will be up.
I am working on my review now...
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "I am working on my review now..."Sounds good
For a minute I forgot that we’re using Central time, not Eastern. Glad we still have a little time!
I've been meaning to ask...US Times are so confusing. What does Central Time even mean? Is it like the one that you have UTC-6 from March to November and UTC-5 the other months?
Week 10: Spot 78
Alternate: Starts with 'D'
Pages:338
Rating 5 stars
Review
This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and I must say she is a master (0r is the proper term mistress) of locked room mysteries. Daisy is the youngest sister of a dysfunctional family. Rose is the oldest, a veterinarian, Lily is unemployed and milking the (British) unemployment system and Daisy does volunteer work. Nancy and Frank, their parents are divorced and tolerate each other. Nana, the matriarch of the family lives on an Island in the Atlantic Ocean in a house named Seaglass. Nana had her fortune told long ago by a Palm Reader in Land's End, so she is expecting to die on her 80th birthday. Trixie is Lily's fifteen-year-old daughter and is a lot nicer than her mother is or is she?
Daisy "was born with a broken heart" is how the novel begins, her family was going to let her die, but the midwife had other plans. Her mother didn't want her, she was hoping for a son after two daughters. She became the least favorite child. She died again on her fifth birthday, trying to swim to America, but her sister Rose performed CPR on her. She was the broken child no one thought that she would live beyond the age of fifteen.
The night before Nana's 80th birthday, they gather at the house for the family reunion, and then one by one the family members are murdered. Nana is expecting it, but what about the rest of them? Nana had made her money by illustrating children's books and then she wrote her own about Daisy. The family all want her money because, besides Rose and Frank, none of them worked, they just sponged off Nana. We wouldn't be complete without the lights going out and finding dead bodies. So, first, Nana's head is bashed in, Frank is poisoned, and Trixie is found with Nana and Frank in the cupboard, left for dead, she had blood between her toes, possibly from an insulin injection. Lily is found poisoned by her perfume Poison and Trixie shoots Rose. But as far as Daisy is concerned, Triex told her that she could not kill her because she was already dead. Conner and her sisters killed her when she was thirteen by throwing her off a cliff because they thought that she had died when Conner hit her with his car. I was wondering if Daisy was dead for this story just by the way that no one seems to notice her. Trixie also had the same heart condition as Daisy, but had the surgery that she never did, to fix her heart.
*Sorry this is late, not my best review as I haven't been feeling well the last few days.
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "I am working on my review now..."We have about 15 minutes left. The review doesn't have to be very long.
Michelle wrote: "Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "I am working on my review now..."We have about 15 minutes left. The review doesn't have to be very long."
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Michelle wrote: "I've been meaning to ask...US Times are so confusing. What does Central Time even mean? Is it like the one that you have UTC-6 from March to November and UTC-5 the other months?"It's one of the 9 time zones we have in the US. The ones that are colored in yellow are the ones in the central. The area it's in is considered the central part of the country.
www.timetemperature.com
Week # 12Previous Spot - 78
Roll - 6+3=9
New spot - 87
Alternative - 87. Award Winner (must state which/when)
Do we wanna use bonus points this week?
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "Week 10: Spot 78
Alternate: Starts with 'D'
Pages:338
Rating 5 stars
Review
This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and I must say she is a master (0r ..."
I really liked this book as well.
Yes, please. We have 3, right? So we can go to 90. And if we do that, we can claim the last 2 next week, and hopefully use them to put us over 100! Unless someone wins this week.
I am okay with using bonus points.
Laura wrote: "Yes, please. We have 3, right? So we can go to 90. And if we do that, we can claim the last 2 next week, and hopefully use them to put us over 100! Unless someone wins this week."Yes we have 3 bonus points left.
@Mamacita & MichelleAre you two ok with using bonus points this week?
I'm headed to bed now and I will check back in the morning.
Mod
Sure. If that's what y'all want to do.I guess it doesn't really matter with somebody else having rolled past 100 this week anyway. And to be honest I'm fine playing just us until we get to 100 if you want to
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "Week 10: Spot 78
Alternate: Starts with 'D'
Pages:338
Rating 5 stars
Review
This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and I must say she is a master (0r ..."
Not sure what a locked room mystery is but I'm glad you enjoyed the book.
Sorry you're under the weather. Hope you feel better!
Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "Week 10: Spot 78
Alternate: Starts with 'D'
Pages:338
Rating 5 stars
Review
This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and..."
Thanks, Mamacita! I am feeling a bit better now.
A locked room mystery is where the characters are stuck somewhere and cannot escape. In this case, they were stuck on an island for eight hours and could not get out until the tide went out.
Week # 12Previous Spot - 78
Roll - 6+3=9
Bonus Points used 3
New spot - 90
Altwrnative - 90. Author 'B
Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Sure. If that's what y'all want to do.I guess it doesn't really matter with somebody else having rolled past 100 this week anyway. And to be honest I'm fine playing just us until we get to 100 if..."
Me too. I'll play to 100.
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "Week 10: Spot 78
Alternate: Starts with 'D'
Pages:338
Rating 5 stars
Review
This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and I must say she is a master (0r ..."
I hope you're feeling better.
Sorry about not updating till this afternoon. My head and my throat hurt last night. Tis the season of dueling lawnmowers and Grass makes my sinuses go bonkers. I'm allergic to most everything outside and spring and fall try to make my life as difficult as possible. So I took some benadryl. Hence why I woke up at 1 pm.
Michelle wrote: "Sorry about not updating till this afternoon. My head and my throat hurt last night. Tis the season of dueling lawnmowers and Grass makes my sinuses go bonkers. I'm allergic to most everything outs..."
Well you stay up late so I don't blame you for sleeping in at all girl. Lol
Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Sorry about not updating till this afternoon. My head and my throat hurt last night. Tis the season of dueling lawnmowers and Grass makes my sinuses go bonkers. I'm allergic to mos..."Thanks
I started my current read before our roll, but I have another stand alone up next.
Just FYI, the game has been won by team 7.
Does everybody want to continue till we roll 100?
Actually, not really anymore but I will if everybody else wants to. It just hit me that it's Mother's Day weekend. I haven't even started my book because I've been packing ing all day cuz I'm going to take the grandbabies on Monday. I only have two choices for #9 book & I really don't want to read either of them at the moment. I have options for standalones. I'm just such a serious girl that they don't appeal to me very much either. If everybody does want to continue till we get to 100 if we could just have two weeks for this role it would help me out greatly. But I'm fine just stopping where we are.
I’m fine either way, but an extra week would be good. Because a team won I didn’t prioritize my stand alone yet this week.
I did finish my book, but it sucked and I hated it. Most of my books lately have been kinda sucky. Either that or I'm just not in the mood for them. I'll go along with the group consensus. I'm fine with whatever though. Once Michelle and Stormie chime in, we can make a decision.
I have been reading my book, even though I have been sick. I am trying to finish so I can post my review. I am okay with continung.
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "I have been reading my book, even though I have been sick. I am trying to finish so I can post my review. I am okay with continung."No need to rush. It looks like Laura and Mama have not gotten to their books and want to take an extra week to get their current reads done. Go get some rest. I hope you feel better soon.
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Week # 7 ~ Spot #78
Book ~ Shelter for Adeline 3.5* ✔️ 4/28
Author ~ ..."
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