Crimson Bound, by Rosamund Hodge → Start Date: July 19, 2015

[Vicki]

Trisha, Krista, and I would love to have you join us!

[Krista]

Yay! Exciting :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

woohoo!! thx for making the thread Vicki!

[Krista]

Now I just need to put a hold on the book at the library.

[Vicki]

No problem, Trisha. :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

YES! My book is already in at the library! I'll be ready :)

[Amanda]

I'll join. I just brought this home from the library last night.

[Vicki]

Awesome, Amanda!

[[deleted user]]

This sounds awesome!
I'll definitely join in! :)

[Rebecca (pagescollective)]

This one looks so good, but I have other reading commitments right now. I hope you guys have fun!

[Vicki]

Good to have you, Missy!

Thanks, Rebecca. :o)

[Amanda]

I started this yesterday but did not have time to post comments yet. I will read a little more later this afternoon and post then :)

[Vicki]

I still don't have my book and I also have an audiobook on hold. Hopefully I'll get one or the other soon!!

[Amanda]

I hope you get one of your copies soon :) It can be frustrating waiting for a hold to come in.

[Vicki]

YES!!! It didn't show on the website but when I went to pick up another book today, there were FOUR waiting for me and this one is one of them. So I have my book!!! YIPPEE!

Has anyone started yet?

[Krista]

I think mine is at the library I just need time to go pick it up lol.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

crap, I forgot (I haven't been updating my buddy read thread :D)

I have my copy...I'll start tomorrow!

[Krista]

I've been so busy with end of the year stuff at school I haven't even been reading this week. Fail :/

[Vicki]

Trisha, it's okay! We all understand! :)

Krista, I understand very well!! The last two weeks of school are crazy! I have to grade and clean my classroom and then I try reading at night and fall asleep. Then I'll wake up and stay up till 2:00 or 3:00 to try to read. LOL

[Krista]

Yes! It's crazy. Plus, I'm changing grades because I got offered a teaching job for next year. So I'm getting stuff together for that! I'm dog sitting this week so I'm like I want to read but can't find the time! Lol. I need to make the time.

[Vicki]

Krista, what grade are you going from and to?

[Krista]

7th as an aid to 6th grade science

[Vicki]

Are you guys K-8 or middle school 6-8?

[Krista]

6-8

[Vicki]

Where I grew up our junior high was 7-9. Where my kids grew up (20 miles from here) junior high was 7-8. In the district I teach it goes from elementary (K-8) to high school. LOL

[Amanda]

This one has been a little tough for me to get into and slightly confused by everything going on so I've not read very much of this in the last few days.

8 chapters in.

Rachelle (view spoiler)[what a scary encounter she had in those woods and then faced with the decision to kill someone and live on as a bloodbound or die. Then to have to try and retain as much of herself to not become a forestborn. I think I got that right anyways. (hide spoiler)]

I'll try to read more of this tonight.

[Krista]

Haha. Yeah it's all crazy

[Vicki]

I plan to get to this one either today or tomorrow.

How's everyone else doing?

[Amanda]

I've dropped this one for now. I had a hard time getting into it and I found it confusing :(

[Vicki]

I understand, Ananda. Sorry you didn't care for it.

[Amanda]

Thanks. I hope you enjoy it.

[Vicki]

Thanks, me too! Lol

[Krista]

I started this today :) Sorry all for some reason lately I've been kind of eh about reading which doesn't happen very often. When it does does though it usually lasts a few weeks. So heres to getting back on track!

[Krista]

Ch. 4-

(view spoiler)[Anyone else think this King's clothing ritual is weird? I'm not sure I knew they did this. Hmmmm.

Other than that it's a little weird but I'm still reading on. (hide spoiler)]

[Krista]

Ch. 10

(view spoiler)[It is getting more interesting to me now. This world I think was hard to set up partly because I'm still not totally sure what a bloodbound is. I understand how their made though. I do wonder who Rachelle is going to end up with. Also, the door I think is in the king's chambers and she just didn't find it the first time. Haha. (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

No worries, Krista. I haven't even started it yet.

[Krista]

I'm a little over half way now. Things are getting more interesting. I will post thoughts tomorrow morning.

[Krista]

Ch. 21

Rachelle(view spoiler)[this character is starting to grow on me more and more. I knew from the beginning that she only killed because it was that or her own life, which I think would be a hard decision for her. I'm glad she has realized that although she has done some bad things she is doing her best to fix what she can. (hide spoiler)]

Armand(view spoiler)[- I'm not totally sure what I think about him. I hope Rachelle is right in her about him and trusting him. He seems like a good guy or as good as he can be in his situation. (hide spoiler)]

Amelie-(view spoiler)[I feel like she's hiding something. I just think she is smarter than she want Rachelle to think. I could be totally wrong though about that. She as least knows more about what's going on than we know she does. (hide spoiler)]

[Krista]

Ch. 24

Ah

Armand-(view spoiler)[ I KNEW IT! I KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Something kept telling me not to trust that guy and I just kept remembering the Red Queen book. I don't want to believe it but ya ugh. I don't know how I feel about it all now. I"m too invested on what will happen to not finish but I'm mad right now. (hide spoiler)]

Ok back to reading.

[Krista]

Finished it:

Rachelle(view spoiler)[I'm glad everything worked out for her in the end! Her character was rather interesting and I enjoyed getting to know her. By the the I finished Cruel Beauty I wanted to know more about the story, this one I felt like it ended just right. (hide spoiler)]

There were a lot of up's and down's but it was a good book. I gave it three stars because there were times when I felt it was dragging on. The love story part was okay. There were times where I felt like it was a little fake though.

I like the concept the book came from if you read the acknowledgements it talks about how the book is based off of Little Red Righting-hood meets A girl with no Hands. This is the second book by this author that I have read and each time it takes me awhile to go behind the book. I don't get sucked in from the beginning like most books. When the author comes out with another book I'll probably give it a try.

[Vicki]

Congrats on finishing!

[Krista]

Thanks!! Now it's all about what to read next....

[Vicki]

Right? I can never decide so I end up reading a few. LOL

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Vicki wrote: "Congrats on finishing! "

Hey Vicki, I still have this!

want to start soon??

[Vicki]

Yes! Let's do it! I have it, too. Oh my...what a GREAT comeback! LOL

How about Monday for this one, or is that too late for you?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Monday is perfect!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Are you okay to change the date??

[Vicki]

Yes, I'm good. What are you thinking? Or are you asking me to change the date on the thread to Monday?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

yes, change the date above on the thread! :) it's a good reminder for me

[Krista]

I can't wait to hear your thoughts :)