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20.3 Winners!Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
1996 - COOL award Joint winner for Section 3 Fiction for older Readers
It must be around 20 years since I first read this, and we recently saw the first episode of the tv series that had been made locally (and whilst it was very good, we forgot to watch the rest of it), which inspired me to want to revisit this one. And buy the entire series for my daughter.
On reading it, she is perhaps a little young to read this one just yet - the characters are all late teens and besides coping with an invasion to their country that occurred whilst they were away in a hidden place, they are dealing with all the feelings of young men and women living in close proximity to people that they may feel attracted to. Not quite the books for a 9 year old that I thought they might be.
It was probably when Marsden was writing this series, and this book in particular, that I got the chance to see and meet him at a Writer's festival through my school. He is a man who understands young adults so well, and can find inspiration and beauty in words anywhere. Not that there is any particularly beautiful prose in this, but he does, I feel, capture the characters of the teenagers well.
The premise of this series is not that inconceivable, which is what makes it a good read. It is perhaps improbable that a group of teenagers would be able to last in hiding for the period that they do, even within this book on its own, but it is interesting to see how they manage to look after themselves and pursue their activities against the invaders as they do.
I am going to try to make my way through the rest of the series, as I don't think I made it very far the first time (I don't think all of the books were written at the time), and we now have them all on our shelves, so they are all readily available.
+20 Task
+10 review
+10 combos (10.5, 20.4)
Task Total = 40
Grand Total = 155
20.2 The Gods!Menagerie by Rachel Vincent
+20 Task: includes a minotaur, Erinyes (furies) and some other creatures from Greek mythology
+10 Combo: 10.7 First Letter (Tien's Task) / 10.8 Come to the Fair (takes place in a menagerie)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 130
20.3 Winners!The Vegetarian by Han Kang
+20 Task: Man Booker International Prize (2016)
+10 Lost in Translation
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 160
20.7 U. S.Cafe Scheherazade byArnold Zable
+20 Task (AZ - Arizona)
+5 Combo (10.7)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 160
10.7 First LetterInside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer by John E. Douglas
Review:
The events detailed in this book are so horrifying that they don't feel real. To me, it is unfathomable that one person could think and act like this is real life. This is one of the reasons I read true crime; I find it interesting knowing how other people think. Similar to Helter Skelter, John Douglas was so close to the crimes that he provides a detailed and accurate account of the case beginning in the 1970's until 2005. I had no idea that the BTK case had ended so recently.
This book reads like a case file, it is very much a presentation of fact. Douglas wanted to de-sensationalize Rader's crimes and he accomplished just that. I occasionally found some of the details to be overwhelming and convoluted (mostly names and timelines). If one is interested in reading true crime for the purpose of understanding what goes on inside a serial killer's head, I think that this is one of the best examples I have read.
+10 Task
+ 10 Review
Task Total: 20pts
Grand Total: 85 pts
10.7 First LetterLittle Black Lies by Sharon Bolton
I just cannot get enough of Sharon Bolton's writing! Even when the premise doesn't sound amazing at the start, I've never failed to be hooked into her stories. This book centers around a string of missing children in the Falkland Islands, and the connections of Catrin, her former best friend Rachel, and her maybe-boyfriend Callum. There are constant surprises, secrets, and twists, partly enabled by the fact that the story is told in three parts - part one narrated by Catrin, part two by Callum, and part three by Rachel. Sharon Bolton is wonderful at creating a sense of place, and the Falkland Islands are a place I had never really thought much about. She also does a terrific job, always, of building interesting characters. There is always more to see below the surface.
+10 task
+10 review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 50
10.7 First LetterLies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
+10 task
(Low lexile; no styles)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 60
15.3 - FYTS - Time Traveler1968 - 2013
Heartstone by Phillip Margolin - 1978
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 45
10.7 First LetterMarny by Anthea Sharp
This book is a good continuation of Sharp's series where highly developed virtual reality games have breached the walls to the old world of faerie and the bargains of the light and dark courts. If I was reading them all at once I think they'd get tiresome in the sameness of the plot - human gets sucked in and must be rescued - but reading them every so often I have found them enjoyable.
Marny is a character with an appearance I don't see often in fantasy novels - she's a tall Samoan - and it's relevant. Not in a, only this background would work sort of way, but in a, looking the way I do and interacting with people has informed my personality and personal challenges sort of way, which was well done.
This feels like a YA romance. But it's not shelved at the BPL, so, if I understand correctly, I get style points ;).
+10 task
+10 review
+5 combo 10.9
Task total: 25
Grand total: 205
20.3 Winners!Startide Rising by David Brin
1984 Hugo Award Winner
The overarching story was simple - a stranded ship needs to escape multiple pursuers and survive - but the overall situation was complex and the way the story was told from multiple perspectives also added depth.
I didn't realize this wasn't the first in a series until too late, but I don't think I actually needed to read the first one. All that I wish I'd known more about was tied specifically to this event. The author did an excellent job of giving me what I needed to know, plus richness in personality and history, and still leaving me wishing there was more, not because the story needed it, but because I wanted to spend more time within it.
I love the idea of sentient dolphins having multiple levels of languages, including whistled poetry, and a ship with dolphin, human, (and chimp) crewmembers. The technology required for that to work was deeply integrated into the story and enriched without detracting.
A great read and I'm looking forward to reading the next one.
+20 task
+10 review
+5 combo 10.7
Task total: 35
Grand total: 240
10.5 Mod task.The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
+10 Task (#13 on American list)
+10 Canon
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 180
15.2 5 yrs through summer -time traveler (2015 to 1970)2010
The Bird Detective : Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds by Bridget Stutchbury
15 task
5 non fiction bonus
____
20
Running total 150
Post 97 Rosemary wrote: "10.7 - First LetterSisterland by Linda Newbery
Lexile 770 - no styles
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 150"
This is not shelved as YA/Juv at BPL, so if there were styles you wanted, feel free.
Task 10.7 First Letter (Tien's Task)Read a book with a title that starts with a letter found in OLYMPICS.
Into the Dim (Into The Dim #1) (2016) by Janet B. Taylor (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 428 pages)
Lexile HL710L
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 100 + 10 = 110
20.5 London CallingMoon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
Review:
I am glad that someone recommended this series to me, and even more glad to have found the audio versions. The narrator is fantastic and I think it's his performance that is really making this an enjoyable series. He manages to do voices for different characters and different accents quite smoothly. This installment continues the world-building that started in the first book and makes the characters and their backgrounds more complete. I hope there's more magic in the next books in the series -- the magic was the one piece of the world-building that seemed to get left behind in this installment. We got a lot of family relationships and character histories, but not much new on the magical side.
+20 Task (#122)
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.7 - M)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 225
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 97 Rosemary wrote: "10.7 - First LetterSisterland by Linda Newbery
Lexile 770 - no styles
+10 Task
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 150"
This is not shelved as YA/Juv at BPL, so if there were styles you wanted, feel free."
Thank you! They must have changed that since I put it on my TBR - which was a few years ago!
But I don't think I have any styles to claim.
10.6 Traveling the DDC wayThe World: Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
Jan Morris has always been one of my favorite travel writers and this tome is a compilation of her pieces over a fifty year period. Morris doesn't travel to follow some war or controversy (usually) but to give us a sense of place and of the people. She has a keen insight into the vibe of a city that it might take much longer for others to realize. She finds people in Sydney to be particularly happy and straightforward. People in New York particularly kind despite the outward appearance. She soaks in a place by just relaxing in a coastal restaurant, having a good meal with a local wine and reading local folktales. The book is almost always positive and so it was a surprise to have it end on a pessimistic note because she finds the world becoming more imperialistic with questionable technological advances, the corruption of money, etc. And just as she decides to end her travels and writings... a new age is ushered in with the attacks of September 11, 2001.
task +10
review +10
total =20
grand total= 170
20.7 U.S.Ball & Chain by Abigail Roux
Review: If you tried to start this series at this book, you wouldn’t have a freaking clue what was going on. I kind of wish the mysteries were more focused on Ty and Zane’s job, because these later books are completely convoluted. The books are still fun, and the guys are still working on figuring out the forces at work that have been guiding them for decades. I personally liked the injection of Kelly and Nick into the story – Ty and Nick fascinate me. This one is set on an isolated Scottish island, so it’s like a big locked room mystery, and I can tell Roux had fun with it. It wasn’t my favorite of the later novels, but I still love this series to bits.
+20 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 120
20.7 U.S.Cross & Crown by Abigail Roux
Review: The second book in the Sidewinders spinoff series gives more of a glimpse into Nick’s life, rather than having him just as a peripheral character. He lives on a boat and works at Boston PD and gets himself into just as much trouble as Zane and Ty do in the Cut & Run series. I read all of these in such quick succession that not all that much stands out to me from this one. Nick and Ty don’t have much interaction, which is more interesting to me than Nick and Kelly, quite frankly, but it’s still worth reading in my opinion – just not without reading all of the rest of both series first.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.7)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 155
20.7 U.S.Crash & Burn by Abigail Roux
Review: This is, sadly, the final book in the Cut & Run series, and I’m so glad Roux is still writing the spinoff series so I can keep in touch with these guys for a bit longer. As a final installment it definitely has the crazy conspiracy shenanigans of the rest of the books, but wraps things up in a pretty reasonable way – a happy ending, but not a safe and boring one for Ty and Zane. There are casualties on the way, and Ty and Nick’s friendship is still suffering, but it’s a really good book. The plot may be completely unbelievable (as I said before, I really hope all these alphabet agencies aren’t really going around doing all the crap they do in these books), but it’s a heck of a lot of fun. I don’t even mind the non-stop action sequences, and usually I need more of a break. I’ll miss these guys – I think I’ll have to track down the audiobooks so I can reread.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.7)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 190
20.5 London callingPygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
#14 on the list
I couldn't read this without the My Fair Lady musical dancing in my head. Much less was shown in the play than the movie, making it a more intimate setting for a stage with a small cast and minimal staging. No "rain in Spain falling mainly in the plain" either.
But one thing that was awesome is that Shaw wrote an afterword. I was always bugged by the "fetch slippers" and ambiguous ending of the movie. Turns out the spirit of it came directly from the play, although it's done slightly differently. Shaw had determined ideas of what would have happened after regarding how Eliza would have lived and why, which I found satisfactory if a bit odd.
+20 task
+10 review
+10 canon
+5 combo (10.7 - P) (Pygmalion is not a character in the play, just the classical reference, so doesn't qualify for 10.9 even though it's a person's name.)
Task total: 45
Grand total: 285
10.2 Picador/ViragoBrooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Eilis lives in a small Irish village in the early 1950s with her sister and widowed mother. At about twenty years old, she is unsophisticated and had never been away from home. There are few job prospects--or marital prospects--in the village so her mother and sister give Eilis an opportunity to immigrate to America. Eilis had no great desire to leave Ireland, and she just accepts other people planning her life. She comes from a family that is placid on the surface, with little discussion of their emotions.
An Irish-American priest in Brooklyn arranges for Eilis to work in a department store, live in a boardinghouse with other Irish girls, and take night courses in bookkeeping. When she meets a handsome, cheerful, Italian man who genuinely cares for her, Eilis seems to just fall into the relationship. Their relationship and her bookkeeping courses fill her time so she feels less homesick for Ireland.
When a family tragedy occurs, Eilis is called back to Ireland. She gets into a comfortable routine with her old friends who admire her new American clothes and hairstyle, and feel her new confidence. Eilis has roots in Ireland, but now also has opportunities and obligations in America. Is she going to make her own choices, or will other people and circumstances make the choice for her? Along with the usual coming-of-age challenges, Eilis was also trying to find out where she wanted to call home.
I especially liked the author's use of local color in Ireland, on the ship crossing the Atlantic, and various places in New York such as Coney Island and a Brooklyn Dodgers game. He did a great job of imagining 1950s New York. I often wondered how many emotions Eilis was hiding below the surface and wished I could see more into her mind, especially at the end of the book.
+10 task
+ 5 combo (20.7 US-initials CT)
+10 review
Task total: 25
Grand total:205
10.9 It's Personal (Rosemary's Task)Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
+10 Task: The MC has many names, one of which is Shantaram
+10 Combo: 10.5 Mod Task / 10.7 First Letter (Tien's Task)
+20 Jumbo (936)
Task Total: 40
Grand Total: 200
20.7 U.S. (Rebekah's Task)Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
+20 Task: PA
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 220
15.3 5 yrs through summer -time traveler (2015 to 1970)2005
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
15 task
5 bonus for nonfiction
____
20
Running total 170
20.6 WarCorelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Review:
I wasn't thrilled by this book. I've been meaning to read this since at least 2007 and it's been sitting on my shelf unloved and unread since then. I finally picked it up, and I have to say I'm disappointed. The writing was good, mostly. But the pacing was just terrible. The first half of the book was an interesting but somewhat dragging story of a little-known pocket of WWII: the Italian and German occupation of Cephalonia (a Greek island). Then, the book moved to a post-war roundup wherein implausible fates were assigned to various characters and an infuriating ending was presented. I plan to watch the 2001 movie with Nicolas Cage even though he seems like a terrible pick for the lead.
+20 Task (WWII list)
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.7 - C)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 260
From Post 89Joanna wrote: "10.10 Group Reads
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Review:
I don't know how I managed not to hear about this book sooner. It's not as though it isn't famous, but it had never ..."
+5 Combo 10.2-Picador List
Karen Michele wrote: "20.2 The Gods!Menagerie by Rachel Vincent
+20 Task: includes a minotaur, Erinyes (furies) and some other creatures from Greek mythology
+10 Combo: 10.7 First Lett..."
I am struggling to find enough information for my inquisitive mind, Karen. I see there are several mythological characters in this book, but after reading (while reading?) did you find this book was about the mythological characters? And were the majority of the cryptids creatures from ancient Greek and/or Roman mythology?
Menagerie was a surprise to me, too. I'll post some more info tomorrow when I'm on the computer instead of my phone.
Karen Michele wrote: "Menagerie was a surprise to me, too. I'll post some more info tomorrow when I'm on the computer instead of my phone."Perfect, thanks, Karen!
20.3 - Winners!:The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (won the UK National Book Awards for International Author of the Year in 2012)
This is the one book that I started in spring but wasn't halfway through by the end of May.
Review:
This was a hauntingly beautiful novel and I really enjoyed reading it. I liked the writing a lot. That's quite a feat, considering it's the author's first novel!
I'd say it bordered on being literary fantasy, as Mabel, one of the main characters, remembered an old fairy tale she read as a child and then suddenly events in her life started to be eerily similar to that tale.
It's a tale of an elderly couple living in the Alaskan wilderness. They have no children of their own after a stillbirth years ago, which really upsets Mabel. Then one night, when the first snow of the season falls, they build a snow child out of the snow just for fun. The next day, the mittens and hat they used for the snow child are gone, and a trail leads away from it. They start seeing a child in a bright blue coat in the woods. Who is she? How did she get to the woods and where does she live? How is it possible that a small girl can survive the rough Alaskan winter on her own? As the mystery unravels, it changes the lives of everyone.
The descriptions of nature, animals, woods and mountains, changing seasons are really good and form an important part of the story itself.
+20 task
+10 review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 30
15.1 FYTS: Time Traveler2016-1971
The Girls by Emma Cline
+15 Task
Points this post: 15
RwS total: -
FYTS total: 15
Season Total: 15
10.1 Square PegA Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
+10 Task
+10 LiT
Points this post: 20
RwS total: 20
FYTS total: 15
Season Total: 35
10.2 Picador/Virago(Virago)
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Mary Rothschild
+10 Task
Points this post: 10
RwS total: 30
FYTS total: 15
Season Total: 45
20.3 Winners!Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
+20 Task (Dylan Thomas Prize 2016)
Points this post: 20
RwS total: 50
FYTS total: 15
Season Total: 65
20.7 U.S. (Rebekah's Task)The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
+20 Task
+10 LiT
Points this post: 30
RwS total: 80
FYTS total: 15
Season Total: 95
10.5 Mod taskThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The novel is #19 on the Australian list
Review:
The lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne marries the lovely and determined Isabel and brings her to the small island of Janus where his lighthouse is located. Happiness ensues for the couple, but when their repeated attempts at having a baby results in abortions and a still birth, Isabel becomes increasingly desperate for a baby. Thus when a rowing boat with a dead man and a small baby washes to shore, the couple makes a choice which will haunt them for years to come.
This is a very good book and it was beautifully translated to Danish, but it is the sort of book that is very painful to read - I even went to bed feeling nauseous one evening. There is very little which is black and white in this book, it is all shades of grey. It would make a tremendous book club read.
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.3 (Goodreads Choice Award Winner 2012), 20.4 (takes place in Australia))
+10 LiT (read in Danish
+10 Review
Task total: 40 pts
Grand total: 125 pts
20.2 The Gods!Ilium by Dan Simmons
Review:
What an epic! I am not sure how he did it, but Dan Simmons managed to transplant the entire Iliad to the plains beneath Mons Olympus on Mars and actually make it work.
The narrative switches evenly between three perspectives: Cyborgs from the Jupiter space, who are wondering why there is so much quantum activity on Mars; genetically modified so-called old style humans back on Earth, who are aptly nicknamed Eloi; and that of Hockenberry an Iliad scholar from the 20th century who watches the Trojan War on Mars and reports any discrepancies between fiction and reality to the pantheon of Greek gods.
It has a bigger than life feel, and even though it is a brick of a book, it never felt slow, maybe because I was listening to the audio version which was very well performed by Kevin Pariseau.
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.7, 20.3 (Won the Locus Award in 2004)
+10 Review
+10 Jumbo (752 pages)
Task total: 50 pts
Grand total: 175 pts
20.5 London CallingSoulless by Gail Carriger
#107 on the list
Review:
Alexia Tarabotti is an old maid in Queen Victoria's London. In her mid-20's she's unlikely to attract a husband, what with her olive skin, curtesy of her dead father, and her unfashionably forward way of speaking, curtesy of herself, her mother gave up on her before she even came out in society.
Alexia doen't mind much, she's more interested in the goings-on in the supernatural world of ghosts, vampires and werewolves (one werewolf in particular) which has been integrated in Daylight-society since the Renaissance. Due to her status as preternatural, or soulless, and her own inability to keep to herself, Miss Tarabotti becomes embroiled in the mystery of why so many werewolves and vampires have disappeared. A mystery which quickly becomes very dangerous for her.
This is a silly book, but it is supposed to be so that's okay, though the language in places was a bit too cutesy for me. Also, the translation to Danish was quite back, which frequently took me out of the story. If I am going to read the second book in the series, and I might at some point, I'll be reading it in English, maybe the language will be less disturbing then.
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7)
+10 LiT (Read it in Danish
+10 Review
Task total: 45 pts
Grand total: 220 pts
20.7 U.S. (Rebekah's Task)I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
I read this because it is on the 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die list and because I do enjoy Isaac Asimov's essays on Shakespeare's works. Yet, my bias against sci-fi was not diminished by this set of connected stories. I am sure that these stories were quite innovative when they were published in 1950...but now seem very dated. Robots struggling with emotions or able to read minds just don't do it for me. Also, all the stories are tied to the first principle of robotics that robots may not cause harm to humans...and yet several paradoxes develop. The resolution to several dilemmas reside in adherence to the first rule and yet the discerning reader might ask...why couldn't someone evilly re-program the robot without the first rule? I can't say I was very disappointed because I really just don't have high hopes for any sci-fi...but it is probably on the 1001 list for its historical significance.
task +20
review +10
combo +5 (10.7)
total = 35
grand total= 205
Kate S wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Menagerie was a surprise to me, too. I'll post some more info tomorrow when I'm on the computer instead of my phone."Perfect, thanks, Karen!"
The main character, Delilah, doesn't know what she is when she is captured and kept in a cage in the menagerie. It is revealed though, that she is (view spoiler)
15.3 - 5 Years Time Traveler2004
Fifteen Years in Hell An Autobiography by Luther Benson
task +15
non-fiction +5
total = 20
grand total = 225
20.7 U.S.Part & Parcel by Abigail Roux
Review: When I read this, I thought it was the final book in the Sidewinders series, and therefore the final book where I could hang out with Ty Grady and all the guys who are so important to him. I’m really glad it’s not actually the last one, but it would have worked as one. This is a road trip novel, and has all the surviving Sidewinders (plus Zane) doing basically a scavenger hunt for their dead comrade. It made me wish Eli hadn’t been dead from book one – he would have been a great addition to the crew. Nick deals with a lot – I’m beginning to think he’s Roux’s favorite character rather than Ty or Zane – and has to face up to himself, his decisions, and all of the complicated relationships in his life. He comes out of it more solid in his relationships with Ty and Kelly, and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next. One criticism I read about this book was about some of the clunkier dialog, and I noticed it too, but I think Roux is trying very hard to be sensitive to all kinds of sexualities, even if it means having the crew have an almost clinical discussion of their own feelings. I’m okay with that, and honestly I could see some of those conversations actually happening with these characters anyway.
+20 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.7)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 225
10.4 Opposite ListsThe Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Review: The Nanny Diaries reminded me of a show called Odd Mom Out that I watched last summer, which technically came after this but has a similar tone. I liked the show better, but I guess I can’t blame this book for not giving me that same thing, since it came first. I don’t love the genre of books that blasts rich Manhattanites – I’d rather blast them myself while watching The Real Housewives of New York (I have a thing for Bravo) – but I didn’t get the impression this was aiming to be more than it was, which was mostly fun. Still, it was super cringe-inducing, and when I found out the sequel follows up ten years later after the main character has married the love interest in this book, I started nitpicking all the characterizations. I doubt I’ll pick up the sequel, especially after peeking at reviews.
+10 Task
+10 Review
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 245
20.4 Go for the Gold! Tigerland by Sean Kennedy
Review: Tigerland is the second in the Tigers and Devils series, which follows Simon and Dec through their lives as a couple. In the first book, they got together and the closeted Australian rules football player Dec was publicly outed. Their relationship has survived years after, and this one finds them settled and happy, but an old nemesis threatens their happiness. This was a nice change from the high stakes of the previous romance series I’d been reading, and it’s interesting to read about a gay couple in Australia. I always assume the US is kind of behind the times in terms of western culture with things like that, but it turns out we have gay marriage before Australia, and it sounds like maybe the macho culture is worse there than it is here. I wish the next in the series could have Simon and Dec get married, but it isn’t to be – yet.
+20 Task (set entirely in Australia)
+10 Review
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 275
15.2 FYTS Time Traveler1965-2015
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
+15 Task
+ 5 over 500 pages bonus
Task total = 20
Grand Total = 120
10.7 First LetterCart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones
This is definitely a YA book but it is only listed as an e-book on BPL and has no lexile score. Hopefully it is okay to claim!
+10 Task
Grand Total: 95 pts
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Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux
Review: Shock & Awe is a spinoff from the Cut & Run series, a novella that gets us more familiar with two side characters as they begin a relationship with each other. A lot of other reviewers seemed not to really care much for the integration of Kelly and Nick’s story into the greater Cut & Run universe, but I’m a total sucker for it. It’s about as close to gay-for-you as I can get behind, but I love Nick so much I don’t blame Kelly for wanting to try him out. The Sidewinders series this kicks off gives a lot more dimension to Ty’s spec ops team, and I would be okay if the whole group ended up being gay if I got more.
+10 Task
+10 Review
+5 Combo (20.7)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 90