R3 TEAM THREAD: Team #4 ~ Seriesly Hawt Sirens

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, Seriesly Hawt Sirens!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'urban fantasy'.

[Your new BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]

Good Job!! :D

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Hooray US!

[Dana]

Go SHS! :)

[Lala]

Yay :D

[Zaanodes]

and another one bites the dust...
Woot!

[Rosina]

R we all caught up other than the current shelf.

[Sarah]

No haha I need to finish my dragon pick! Sorry this one is really dragging for me!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Sarah's right but you can always look at the list just under our Bingo card on page 1, I try to keep it up to date :)

[Rosina]

Thnx Sandra. I knew there had to be a way. One other thing in order to win do all shelves called have to finished or just the shelves that make up the bingo?

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Just the shelves that make up Bingo ;)

[Dana]

Well I took a gander around at the other team's cards and we are doing VERY well. ;)

No other team has as many ways to win as us. (Yippee!) Most teams have only one or two. One team has three but still has to get the stamps for one or two squares to make the third happen. If we finish up our angels in a timely manner, as well as our dragon spot, we will have four ways to win. It will be a 1 in 3 chance of a winner being called. Luckily, most of the other winners are spots that would be winners for us too. We would just have to be 'speed readers'.

Lookin' good ladies!

[Sarah]

I will be all caught up hopefully *crosses fingers* by the time the next shelf is called! I just have a lot going on this week but tomorrow night and Friday I can read all I want! haha

[Dana]

I know what you are saying Sarah since I had the same issue last week. :) You'll get there!

[Dana]

So the last 36 hours has seen an explosion in other teams cleaning up old stamps that they needed to finish. I was poking around and cam across this post that Laura Lulu made and I had to swipe it. (bad me!)

These are the teams that can win for each of the remaining shelves:


Paranormal Romance - 1, 2, 3

Male Author - 1, 4, 5, 6

GR Author - 2, 3

Trilogy - 3, 4, 6

Ghosts - 5, 6

Vampires - 5, 7

Futuristic - 2

Speculative Fiction - 4

Series to Read - 4

Post Apocalyptic - 7

There's only one shelf left that won't give anyone a win - Magic. (The way this game is going, I am half expecting 'magic' as the next shelf. :) I like plaing but it is starting to seem odd that no one has yet won.

[Sarah]

Yikes well if it isn't the Magic shelf hopefully it will be speculative fiction or series to read! Wow that is crazy!

[Dana]

If it is 'male author' this is going to be one heck of a race! ;)

[Sarah]

exactly! yikes I'll have to figure out what I'll read for that. I have my picks for speculative fiction and series to read ready to go.

[Sarah]

I just realized I said yikes in two different comments.... weirdo over here haha who even says yikes anymore?? Obviously, I do haha

[Rosina]

I was trying to find a book that would in all shelves for the win for our team. I think I found one that I have but searching those shelves and cross referencing is confusing.

I am about 50% done. Working overtime some evenings is cutting into my reading time.
Hope to be done on sat am.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Got my fingers crossed for a #4 Seriesly Hawt Sirens win!!! LOL

Get ready for some quick reading teamsters.

[Sarah]

I agree with Sandra! haha

[Zaanodes]

Zina wrote: "I was trying to find a book that would in all shelves for the win for our team. I think I found one that I have but searching those shelves and cross referencing is confusing.

I am about 50% do..."

Oh, let me know if you find one!!

My current planned Male Author is 662 pages (The Name of the Wind) and for a tight race that is a bit much! Currently, I am leaning towards my next Kate Daniels

But if you find a book that fits all of the shelves for the win...That would be awesome!!

[Dana]

10/20 ★ ★


Enjoyable in some ways and I liked some of the main ideas of this world but for the most part I found this story to have no 'believability'. There is no expalnation or basis for the worlds, why everyone is a vampire, etc.

The whole book I was reminded of J.R. Ward's BDB series. (Only I really like BDB.) They both have a band of vampire warriors in the story but that wasn't what felt familiar. It was the disconnection in some aspects of the language. If I heard the words 'lavender' or 'cardamom' one more time I was going to go crazy. It took on the qualities of Ward's 'shitkickers' for me and I just couldn't get past it. There were dozens of points in which the story just could have been written better and I would have been able to get a bit more into this story. I may try another in the series (or at least read some reviews) to see if the writing improves, but I'm not going to be ordering the book today or anytime soon.


AND, even though they all have angel wings and this is on the 'angel' shelf...there are no angels in it. *sigh*

[Dana]

Angels shelf is looking like this at present.


Week 13#: Angels, B4
Read: 4/6
*October 16 - October 22*

Zina: Clockwork Angel
Zaanodes: Archangel's Consort 10/17 ★ ★ ★ ★
Sarah: City of Fallen Angels
Sandra: Surrender the Dark 10/17 ★ ★ ★
Laura: Unearthly 10/17 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Dana: Ascension 10/20 ★ ★




You are working on your dragon pick, right Sarah? :)

[Rosina]

Zaanodes wrote: Oh, let me know if you find one!!

"

I think this one fits



male author
series to read

speculative fiction

trilogy

[Dana]

I think that I have books on my shelf right now for current challenges that fit all the shelves left....but dang! I'm so excited!

[Sarah]

Alright so I just finished Kiss of Fury by Deborah Cooke. I gave it 3 stars. I found myself kind of reading the dialogue and every couple pages. I like Donovan and Alex, I like the world they inhabit but for some reason these books are just not keeping me interested. I'm not sure I'll read the next one in the series.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yay Sarah! That means we're up for our Dragons stamp please Missie Steph :)

[Dana]

Yeah Sarah!

[Sarah]

Thanks guys! Your enthusiasm has made up for the not so great read haha.

[Zaanodes]

Yeah, Sarah!

Thanks, Zina! And The Golden Compass has a Kindle edition!

Do I even want to know how many hours you spent on that?

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Our Next Shelf is: 'Goodreads Author'
DIRECT LINK: Goodreads author

This shelf gives TWO teams BINGO ~ Double Trouble (#2) and Serious Series Sluts (#3). But, Double Trouble first needs to get their 'dragons' stamp, whereas SSS only needs to read, rate & review their books for this shelf to win.

Good luck to both teams! Happy Reading!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

CONGRATULATIONS, Seriesly Hawt Sirens!
You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'dragons'.

[Your new BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]

Good Job!! :D

[Sarah]

For Goodreads Author I'll read Frostbite by Richelle Mead

[Zaanodes]

Goodreads Author: Haunted

Good luck to DT and SSS!

And the race is on...

[Sarah]

So sad that we're not in the race :( but hopefully if they fail... I mean if they don't get them read in time we can still make it haha

[Steph, Serious series addict]

:) True, Sarah. Ya never can tell.

[Dana]

Oh! Bummer ladies. :( I was almost expecting to be part of the 'last leg' since we had more possibilities than any other team, but man this round was fun! I'm off to to see if any of my October books fit the category so I'm not adding to my already huge list.

Enjoy the (more casual) week to read. :)

[Dana]

I'm off to read

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Hi gals, been out all day at a BBQ, it was yummy, but sad to see we're just about at the end of Bingo R3.

For GR Author shelf I'm going to read

[Lala]

:(

for this week i will read

[Rosina]

Hi Ladies....oh darn was looking forward to having a fun race to the finish line....

yesterday was spent with family at my DH's aunt's funeral....

I am about 3/4 through my angel read hoping to finish it off today...

for this weeks shelf I am going to read

[Rosina]

Does anyone know if Laura has been affected by the earthquake in turkey?

[Lala]

Im ok...i live in middle of Turkey so we dont get so much earthquake in Ankara only small ones...the earthquake was in east and it was quite bad :S

[Dana]

Laura wrote: ":(

for this week i will read"


Oh i hope you like it! I loved this book/series. I still have to read the last one...I've kind of been saving it like a special treat. :) Enjoy!

[Lala]

Dana wrote: "Laura wrote: ":(

for this week i will read"


Oh i hope you like it! I loved this book/series. I still have to read the last one...I've kind of been saving i..."

So far its promising :)

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Laura wrote: "Im ok...i live in middle of Turkey so we dont get so much earthquake in Ankara only small ones...the earthquake was in east and it was quite bad :S"

Thank goodness you're OK, sorry to hear of the loss of life :(

[Zaanodes]

Zina: Condolences on DH's aunt.

Prayers for Turkey. Laura, glad you are ok.

[Zaanodes]

Goodreads Author: Haunted Finished 1 or 2 am 10/24 (could NOT sleep, so I read!) ★ ★ ★ ★

Wow. Previous books really can lead you astray. I try to keep an open mind about people (and characters) because inner thoughts that lead to outer actions are just that, inner thoughts, and therefore private. But dang! Sometimes I just don't allow quite enough wiggle room and I get surprised. I liked it.

[Sarah]

I finished City of Fallen Angels yesterday morning but I couldn't find the words to write the review until today.

I gave it 5 stars. I think it's a really great transition into the second half of the series. I liked that Simon had a more prominent role in this one. The ending was frustrating! But I expected that, because of everything I'd read about it. Definitely a big cliffhanger and I see why everyone is going insane over it.