R5: Team #13 ~ The Clever Coven

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Team #13
Captain: Dana

Members:
Ming
Kelly
Kate
Dana
Nici

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Virtual BINGO Card
Shelf names listed are to be filled in top to bottom under each letter listed

B
1. urban-fantasy
2. *Reader's Choice
3. *New2You: series
4. shifters
5. *Series Catch-Up
I
6. psychic
7. dragons
8. angels
9. new-series
10. male-lead
N
11. young-adult-paranormal
12. paranormal-fantasy
N#. FREE SPACE
13. kick-ass-heroine
14. paranormal-romance
G
15. favorite-series
16. magic
17. *Favorite Supe
18. *New2You: author
19. vampires
O
20. 2011
21. ghosts
22. sci-fi-romance
23. dark-fantasy
24. demons

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Link to print your own copy: BINGO card

[Steph, Serious series addict]

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[Steph, Serious series addict]

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[Kate]

Lucky team #13... :P

Hi guys. I'm Kate. I'm pretty excited to be participating in another bookshelf bingo. Round 4 was my first time and I had a great time.

[Nici]

hi team! I am in nici and I live in Iowa. Happy to play again: )

[Kelly]

Hi! I'm Kelly and look forward to playing again.

[Dana]

Team 13 Info Post


Week (N/A): Free Space
Completed: 5/5
Ming: A Blood Seduction June 20th ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: The Summoning June 25th ★ ★ ★ Review
Kate: Sin Undone June 20th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Dana: Raven Cursed June 17th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Nici: Kiss of Frost June 19th ★ ★ ★ ½ Review


Week 1: YA paranormal
Dates: June 17th to 23rd, 2012
Completed: 5/5
Ming: Silence June 17th ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: Shadow Kiss June 17th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kate: Marked June 23rd ★ ★ ½ Review
Dana: Divergent June 21st ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Nici: Fade June 23rd ★ ★ ★ ½ Review



Week 2: favorite series
Dates: June 24th to 30th, 2012
Completed: 5/5
Ming: Once Burned June 27th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: The Darkest Passion June 25th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kate: Succubus Dreams July 2nd ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Dana: Dying Wish June 24th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Nici: Archangel's Blade June 27th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review



Week 3: New 2 You: Series
Dates: July 1st to 7th, 2012
Completed: 5/5
Ming: Tarnished July 5th ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: Wicked Lovely July 1st ★ ★ Review
Kate: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf July 1st ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Dana: The Thief July 7th ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Nici: Minion July 10th ★ ★ ★ Review



Week 4: shifters
Dates: July 8th to 14th, 2012
Completed: 5/5
Ming: Darkness Devours July 8th ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: Slave to Sensation July 17th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kate: Succubus Heat July 9th ★ ★ ★ ½ Review
Dana: Storm's Heart July 8th ★ ★ ★ ½ Review
Nici: Pride Mates July 12th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review



Week 5: ghosts
Dates: June 15th to 21st, 2012
Completed: 5/5
Ming: Cloaked in Malice July 20th ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: Grave Memory July 22th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kate: The Awakening July 17th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Dana: Greywalker July 27th ★ ★ ★ Review
Nici: Project 17 July 19th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review



Week 6: demons
Dates: July 22nd to 28th, 2012
Completed: 5/5
Ming: The Devil You Know July 25th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: Sins of the Demon July 30th ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kate: A Discovery Of Witches July 27th ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Dana: Demon July 28th ★ ★ ½ Review
Nici: Invincible July 25th ★ ★ ★ Review



Week 7: urban fantasy
Dates: July 29th to August 4th, 2012
Completed: 5/5
Ming: Darklands August 9th ★ ★ ★ Review
Kelly: Chasing Magic August 5rd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Review
Kate: Shiver August 8th ★ ★ Review
Dana: Kiss the Dead July 30th ★ Review
Nici: Magic Strikes August 3rd ★ ★ ★ ★ Review




Kate:
Dana: Branded by Fire
Nici: The Golden Lily

[Nici]

Any team names ladies? My first suggestion is the black cats lol

[Kate]

Lucky people - enjoying Summer.

I'm from Queensland, Australia and whilst we don't get anywhere near as cold as most places in the world, it's colder than I would like in winter. :P

the black cats is a good team name but it seems really familiar. Was the 13th team last round the black cats?

[Nici]

I can't recall. What's the temp down under?

[Nici]

For the free space I am going to see if I can get my hands on Kiss of Frost

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yep Team #13 were the Black Cats last round, and I can tell you it wasn't a lucky name :))))

[Nici]

How about the wicked witches coven?

[Dana]

I was thinking about witches as well for the whole '13 in a coven' thing.

[Ming]

checking in

[Kelly]

YAY first shelf is up 'young adult paranormal'

I'm going to read
Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)
by Richelle Mead

[Nici]

Yay! But ladies, any thoughts on names?

[Ming]

Terrible's 13

[Ming]

YA is not my thing.. so give me a few to find something

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Nici wrote: "For the free space I am going to see if I can get my hands on Kiss of Frost"

That would actually work for YA Pnr, Nici.

[Dana]

So the phrase GR Grimoire keeps getting stuck in my head but I'm not sure how to make it a name or if it even fits.

The GR Grimoire?
The GR Grimoire Gals?
The Clever Coven?
or something similar...

I kind of like the GR Grimoire Gals since it has a reference to GR and has a 'book' in the title but would love to see what you all are thinking of in this line.

[Dana]

Oh how opportune! YA paranormal. I just brought home City of Fallen Angels-perfect. :)



I will be reading

Week 1: YA paranormal

[Dana]

For my free space I will be reading...



Free Space: 'on SOS bookshelf'

[Dana]

Also, who would like to do the captain bit? This is my 4th BSB and I have done the captain thing so new blood is called for. :) Anyone game?

[Ming]

For YA I'll do with
Silence (The Queen of the Dead #1)
by Michelle Sagara

[Nici]

I am partial to the clever coven

[Nici]

If the library has it in, I will be reading Fade for the YA. Paranormal shelf. I am trying to work on series I have already started before starting any more.

[Kate]

I quite like the Clever Coven too :)

For YA paranormal I'll read Marked

I bought a copy a few months ago in a boxed set with two other books I wanted and just haven't gotten around to reading Marked yet so this is a great excuse :)

And I don't think I'm enough of an organized person to be team captain.

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Happy shelf-day, everyone!

The virtual tracker of all shelves stamped & all bingo cards is up. I copied up the cards from each thread, and need other eyes to check that there are no mistakes. If the captain or an enthusiastic teammate could pop over to check the notice, then your card and let me know it's OK, I would really appreciate it! Many, many thanks!

Link to SOS Book Shelf Bingo ROUND FIVE Stats post in the BSB R5 Discussion thread

[Kate]

checked and it was correct :)

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Thanks, Kate!

[Dana]

I have to return Raven Cursed to the library soon so I decided to read my free space book really quick before reading my YA para book. I was up really late but got through 3/4 of it (read: I'm really tired C=) so I should be able to finish it by tonight. Good stuff here so far. I love Jane Yellowrock!

[Dana]

And thanks Judithe! It's so nice to have a quicky summary to reference. :)

[Kelly]

For my free space
Rise from Darkness (Battle for Souls #1)
by Ciara Knight

The GR Grimoire Gals, sounds good to me.
Dana I think you should be captain, since you have alot of experience already :) If you don't mind doing it.

[Dana]

I don't mind doing it at all if that is what you ladies all agree to. Just want to make sure that if someone is itchin' to be mon capitan they speak up. We'll see what Nici and Ming think. If neither of them is hot for the job, I'll set up some links and get our listings going.

Making Father's Day brunch right now so I'm off to cook. We're having make your own crepes buffet. Fresh strawberries or bananas w/ Nutella (my fav) YUM!!!

[Dana]

Soooooo...I just finished my book. W-O-W. How's about that for a lot of action? Whew!



Week (N/A): free space
Completed: June 17th, 2012
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Review: I was a huge fan of Faith Hunter's Rogue Mage series so I was skeptical about switching over from her post-apoc success to an urban-fantasy based on Native American lore. Native American based faction can be so poorly executed, and more often than not, is. This series however was just another reassurance to me that Faith Hunter always puts her big girl panties on before she writes. She is awesome!

I really dislike writers who try so hard for complete stand alone novels when writing a series that they repeat insane amount of info in each installment. Hunter doesn't do that and she gets a big nod of respect from me in that regard. Her JY novels never repeat info unless it is immediate and pertinent. For that I am truly grateful. :)

This book in the series was super action-packed. So much so that there were points where I was forgetting all the junk that Jane needed to take care of. Even with all the secondary and tertiary plot threads happening, it was well balanced and the tie ins were all reasonable and feasible and therefore added to the story. I never feel like Hunter overworks her plot elements and this was just another example of her well worked craft.

I only had one complaint which was in regard to the ending. This one had a bit of that, "Oh, right. We're done now." These just kind of stop and don't allude to what may happen in the next book. I'm just left wondering. *crap* Some might call this quality writing. I call it cruel and unusual punishment.

Regardless, I would definitely recommend the book and will continue on with the series. (a.k.a.: When is that next book coming out, dang it?!? C= )

[Ming]

Dana 4 leader

[Nici]

Wooten Woot Dana as captain! Also, Dana that series sounds interesting. I will have to check it out

[Dana]

Well, my team has spoken. C= I'll do my best ladies. I'm feeling good about this round...I feel victory on the wind. (Or is that my 'stuffed like a goose' sated and happy feeling from brunch.....hhmmm.) We're so going to kick some butt!

I'm going to convert my first post above into an info post then so all our stuff is right on page one. Let me know if there is any other info you want to see there.

[Ming]

Silence (The Queen of the Dead #1)
by Michelle Sagara
***
Finished 6/17 PDT

Not a bad little YA gothic. I might check out the next one. Might not. And a bit more.

[Ming]

Dana takes a bow from the balcony ....

[Ming]

for my Free Space
God Save the Queen
by Kate Locke

[Dana]

I'm supposed to blow kisses to my fans now right? *dang...where did I put those fans?* I knew I forgot something! C=

I have converted my first check-in post into a team stats post. I added some extra info and links to try to keep the post as small as possible. These stats posts can get half a page long if the game goes on very long. (that 'spoiler' at the bottom is just me condensing my original words in that post so disregard that)

We do still need a name though. Any other suggestions for names? The Clever Coven had a few votes so far but we can take some more suggestions. Let your creativity flow! What do you ladies think?

ETA: Oh, and sorry if I got your time zone wrong. It has been a few decades since geography captured my attention.

[Dana]

Just a reminder to everyone as well. When you do start posting reviews they need to include the date you completed them, the star rating, and a review of the book. The review doesn't need to be as long as all the babble that I posted above (that's for sure!) but per the game rules, it does need to have noted what you liked and didn't like about the book and whether or not you will continue with the series if it is part of one.

Just a reminder! Later C=

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Ming wrote: "Silence (The Queen of the Dead #1)
by Michelle Sagara
***
Finished 6/17 PDT

Not a bad little YA gothic. I might check out the next one. Might not."

You write the absolute shortest reviews, Ming. Not gonna give us more than that, huh? :p

[Kate]

For my free space I'm going to go with Sin Undone by Larissa Ione. - It's on the SOS bookshelf

It just arrived in the mail so I feel like that's a sign :P

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Dana wrote: "And thanks Judithe! It's so nice to have a quicky summary to reference. :)"

Pleased to help out (and my memory needs those little reminders...though some names are unforgettable!)

[Kelly]

I can't find my free space read on any of the SOS bookshelves. Sorry I thought I saw it on one. So now I'm going to read The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong. It's on the y/a bookshelf.