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R2 TEAM THREAD: Team #2 Scratch & Sniff
Oh, and does anyone know what the HTML is for half stars? I can make the whole ones, but I'm not cool enough yet for half. :)
AND...Super-congrats to you Rebecca you medical genius! I used to work for a medical staffing agency so I know for a fact that the work is out there. As preventative care becomes more the norm than the exception, diagnostic testing and tools just keep going on the rise. Great choice and good luck to you! I'm sure you will be very content with what you are doing.
Three cheers for knowing what you want to be when you grow up! ;P
Sorry to hear your YA Fantasy book sucketh thee ass, Kristin. =( But congrats on finishing it!LOL @ Dana's review! I've heard about the icky situation in that book. I've also heard that even if it wasn't there, the book would be crap-which is why I'm staying far far away. Love your new word, YA-Fantasy-itis. There is definitely a lot of that going on in the YA genre. Congrats on finishing your book.
Go team, Go! Woo!
I'm not a fan of the fact we can't put half stars as part of our reviews.I remember when COB came out and out of impulse I bought it. I never read it and ended up giving it away because I had a feeling I wouldn't read it. But anyway before I start in a circle...
ONE SITTING?
Get. Out.
I've never done that with a book before so I'm amazed.
After reading your review, I don't know if I want to read this. I get the feeling it might be alright to pass.
Kristen, I have the Wicked Lovely series ready to read. I've never read them, but I've kept up with them as they come out. Makes me wonder if I more of a collector than a reader...Anyway, I've heard so much about this series that I was looking forward to it.
I don't know. I think with your review and Dana's review of City of Bones, I'll read the books to see what I think about them but not anytime soon. KWIM? :-)
Kimberly wrote: "But anyway before I start in a circle...ONE SITTING?
Get. Out.
I've never done that with a book before so I'm amazed.
..."
Never? Really? Why could you have possibly wanted to be friends with me you nice girl? You are obviously centered and well adjusted and completely in control of your neurotic impulses, if you have any. ;) (Never mind...you book shop like a nut, right? OK, all is well then.)
Well, when I say one sitting, I obviously got up to grab a drink or attend to nature's call. I should admit though that I do this all the time. Hence, why I am pretty sure I am considered a nut. When I finally broke down and decided to read Harry Potter, I read the first 6 books in 5 days. I am a little manic that way.
"Who needs sleep?!?!?!" Dana screeches as she furtively glances around the room and then with shaking hands drops a fresh bag of Hawaiian Blend to drip in her IV.
I must take a moment to be grateful for my Kindle. (moment, moment, ......) I am leaving on vacation today to hang at the beach for a week, and if it wasn't for my Kindle, how would I get this week's book? Oh, the horror! I can just grab an e-copy of whatever fills this weeks bingo book, yeah!
Patiently waiting for the next shelf.
I'll be posting a bit early since I may not be online much tomorrow. Finally gettin' a full day with hubby, if work doesn't call him in. :DSo... stay tuned!
Steph wrote: "I'll be posting a bit early since I may not be online much tomorrow. Finally gettin' a full day with hubby, if work doesn't call him in. :DSo... stay tuned!"
YAY!
Team, please don't take this the wrong way, but we've got to step up our game. The 5th shelf is getting ready to be announced & we've only got one stamp. Every other team has at least two & Team #3 has four stamps. I'd like us to win this game (& have fun doing it) but we won't have a chance lagging so far behind as we are. So GO TEAM, GO! LET'S DO THIS!
And I wanted you all to know that even if we don't win this game, I appreciate all of you for partipating & staying on my team. You guys are great.
Nice! I found a book I plan on reading for a challenge this month on the first page. Woot woot!I'm going to read
for the Demons shelf.
WOO HOO!!!I finished just in time!!!
I'll have a review for you later because I'm too tired to put anything together other than Vampire Academy sounds like the vampire version of Harry Potter.
Have a great day with your hubby Steph!
Got Team Scratch & Sniff! We're so close to getting a bunch of stamps and kicking some major book binding butt!!
Thanks, Kim! Happy reading, ya'll!!
Shifters I10 7/8Rec'd:
√Lethal: Soulless-★★★½
√Kimberly: No Mercy Dark-Hunter 19-★★★
√Shannon: Pride-★★★★½
Rebecca: No Rest for the Wicked
√Kristen: Unraveled-★★★
√Mary: Dark Peril-★★★★
√Dana: Blood Cross-★★★
√Rachel: When He Was Bad-★★★★
Paranormal N11 8/8 !!!
Rec'd: 4/4/11
√Lethal: Magic Strikes-★★★★★
√Kimberly: Slave to Sensation-★★★
√Shannon: Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter, #2)-★★★
√Rebecca: Laird of Darkness-★★★★
√Kristen: Evernight-★★★
√Mary: The Dead Travel Fast-★★★★
√Dana: Mindhealer-★★★
√Rachel: The Native Star-★★★
YA Fantasy N13 7/8
Rec'd:
Lethal: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
√Kimberly: Vampire Academy-★★
√Shannon: Fire-★★★★
√Rebecca: Falcondance-★★½
√Kristen: Wicked Lovely-★
√Mary: Clockwork Angel-★★★
√Dana: City of Bones-★★★½
√Rachel: Burned-★★★
Demons I8 5/8
Rec'd:
√Lethal: Working for the Devil-★★½
√Kimberly: Storm Born-★★★★
Shannon: My Soul to Take
Rebecca: TBD
√Kristen: Kitty Goes to Washington-★★★★
√Mary: Ill Wind-★★★★
Dana:
√Rachel: Demonglass-★★★★
I'll be using
for the demons shelf. I need to read this for a paperbackswap game and have been putting it off in hopes of using it for this this. And lucky me 9 people have it shelved "demons"
Ugh. 2 starsIt felt like Vampire Academy took forever to get through. I guess I just wasn't into it.
Now here's a kicker, my pre-planned choice for the demon shelf, Storm Born.
Maybe this book will be less painful?
Good luck team!! Enjoy your reads!
Congrats on finishing your picks, Mary & Kimberly! I'm sorry VA didn't work out for you, Kimberly. =( I enjoyed it more when I read it. Then again, I was like 15 then & didn't have the best tastes in books.
I'm on vacation right now and I have a few books with me. What's the most "demon"-like?? 
or
I'll read whichever one next. I know they are both mostly vamps and shifters...
Great picks, Kristen! I didn't much care for "Evernight" but I plan on reading "Kitty Goes to Washington" this month for a challenge. I hope you enjoy it if you pick it.
I just finished The Vampire Voss, which I switched for my Free Space. I've also decided to read Falcondance for the YA shelf and only have about half of it left and will have it done tomorrow. Right now, it's time for sleep, haha. 2.30AM. Oh well! The Demon shelf will probably be Desire Unchained or Falling Under. Will have to think about that. ;)
Free Space
Finished: 02-04-2011
Rating: ★★★★
I don't think I can shorten this down at a moment and still get my feelings through, so I'll just give you ladies a link! http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Free Space
Finished: 02-04-2011
Rating: ★★★★
I don't think I can shorten this down at a moment and still get my feelings through, so I'll just give you ladies a link! http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
YAY! Congrats on reading your Free Space book, Rebecca! I'll keep your "Demon" pick blank until you make a decision.Freespace 8/8 !!!
Rec'd:
√Lethal: Mockingjay-★★★
√Kimberly: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf-★★★★
√Shannon: Rogue-★★★★
√Rebecca: The Vampire Voss-★★★★
√Kristen: Darkfever-★★★★
√Mary: Trace's Psychic-★★★
√Dana: Shadowfever-★★★★
√Rachel: An Ice Cold Grave-★★★★
LethalLovely~Trust in Me & Fall As Well wrote: "I'm sorry VA didn't work out for you, Kimberly. =( I enjoyed it more when I read it. Then again, I was like 15 then & didn't have the best tastes in books. "Yeah, it's not that it was a bad book, I'm just not that age anymore.
We got another stamp!!! YAY TEAM!!!
is that a new stamp? Hooray ladies!
Feel like I always start my posts with sorry...but I'm so absent from here at the moment - feeling bad for being a part-time member!Anyhow - I finally finished Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter, #2) for shelf Paranormal (finished 31st March) I rated it 3 stars (was nearly a 2...)
I think maybe it was just a bad pick for a bad week for me. I'm going to put it on my 'to-re-read' shelf cause I had higher expectations.
When reading series, I like the sequels to be a not of the same pattern as the previous books. That's where I think this fell down. It was just really predictable, and followed the same basic formula as the previous books....yawn! Even at the height of suspense, I was looking for more.
I have the rest of the series...sure hope it gets better....
Congrats on your new stamp!!!
Thanks all!I'm sorry to hear you didn't like your pick as much as you wanted to, Shannon. =( Hopefully the series will get better for you. I found this series to be very repetitive myself, which is why I eventually quit it. But that was way down the line.
YAY TEAM! Now we have TWO stamps!!!
Paranormal N11 8/8 !!!
Rec'd:
√Lethal: Magic Strikes-★★★★★
√Kimberly: Slave to Sensation-★★★
√Shannon: Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter, #2)-★★★
√Rebecca: Laird of Darkness-★★★★
√Kristen: Evernight-★★★
√Mary: The Dead Travel Fast-★★★★
√Dana: Mindhealer-★★★
√Rachel: The Native Star-★★★
YAY TEAM!! Two stamps in one weekend!!This is great!!!
No that's 2 stamps total right? We got one last week and now the paranormal stamp.
We still need YA-fantasy, Shifters and Free Space. OK the free space one must still be pending? Because that would make it 3 stamps.
We have Free Space now, it's just not stamped officially yet. :)
Kimberly wrote: "YAY TEAM!! Two stamps in one weekend!!This is great!!!"
I know! Woo!
Mary, I meant we have two new stamps pending. Shannon posted her book for "Paranormal" today & Rebecca posted her book for "Free Space" yesterday. Now we're just waiting for Steph to mark both received. ☺
That's what I thought too but then Lethal posted that we now have 2 stamps.(I just noticed that it was Lethal posting again).
It would be really helpful if next week either dragons, favorite-covers, witches or paranormal-romance were called. Especially if we can get the demons and ya-fantasy stamps this week.I got about 70pages of my demons book read. I like it so far. Good thing since I have others of the series already.
That was fast. Woo hoo! I read 118 pages of my demons book. I'm hoping to finish it by Wed so I can start another book I need to mail for PBS.
Yahoo!!I'm going with
for my demon book. There's bound to be one in there, somewhere....
WTG, S&S!! Two stamps comin' your way! :D YAY! Hope everyone is enjoying their reads! {Team Stats Updated}
CONGRATULATIONS, Scratch & Sniff! You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'FREE SPACE' AND '_paranormal'.
[Your new BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]
Good Job!! :D
Hooray & congrats S&S!!!!
Rachel wrote: "Finished my book for Demon shelf. Demonglass 4-2-11 My Review"Congrats on finishing your "Demons" book, Rachel! I have the first book in this series on my TBR.
Hey everyone!! Happy Tuesday!Storm Born is going so much better than Vampire Academy! I think I should be finished by Thursday at the latest.
Go TEAM!!!
Finished my book for Demons.Working for the Devil ★★½☆☆ 4/5/11
I've read two other series by Saintcrow (Strange Angels & Jill Kismet) so I'm familiar with her style by now. I was hoping WFTD would be awesomesauce, but it was totally...not. The reader is dropped into a futuristic world with no warning, no explanation, no freaking glossary! Half of the time, I didn't know WTF was going on. Dante was such a bitch. She didn't even have snarky humor to soften her crappy attitude. We're told that Dante is good friends with Gabe & Eddie, but there is almost no backstory to support it. Jace is her ex-boyfriend who she hates with all of her bitchy heart & soul, but when we find out why she hates him, it's really not that big of a deal. Japhrimel is this Super Demon who's job is to take her into hell & help her complete a job given to her by the DEVIL! Sounds interesting, right? NOT! When I wasn't confused as hells, I was bored out of my mind. The only character I liked in this book was Japh & even he got on my nerves after awhile with his broody, Angel-esque attitude. The ending was kind of creepy but I've read creepier.
Suffice it to say, I was not impressed with WFTD. Far from it. Saintcrow did not create likeable characters in this book, or even relatable ones. It's just a bunch of futuristic, wannabe badasses smoking "synth hash" & trying their best to get their asses handed to them. I'm going to give this series another go (against my better judgement) & hopefully book #2 will blow me away like WFTD didn't. Or at the very least, make me feel something. Because at this this point, all I feel is apathy towards this series. I know Saintcrow can do better than this.
Finished my demon book:
Four stars!!
Review: I really like this series. Kitty is a great hero and the secondary characters are fun, too. The vampires and government intervention made it fun read. The story moved quickly and never got boring.
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Here's my Dana's City of Bones Review. As you can see from my wildy variant star rating, this book was a bit difficult for me to file away cleanly. Grrr!