2-3-4 Challenge discussion

July Plan
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2-3-4 Challenge
✔The Secrets She Kept (#2) by Brenda Novak (Fairham Island) (NG) ★★★★
✔When Maidens Mourn (#7) by C. S. Harris (Sebastian St. Cyr) (GR - 2-3-4) ★★★★
✔First Strike (#5.9) by Pamela Clare (I-Team) (GR - TDD) ★★★★
✔Black Friday (#7) by Alex Kava (Maggie O'Dell) (GR - 2-3-4) ★★★
✔Burn Down the Night (#3) by Molly O'Keefe (Everything I Left Unsaid) (NG) ★★★★1/2
✔Fatal Identity (#10) by Marie Force (Fatal) (AR) ★★★★
✔Taking Fire (#4) by Cindy Gerard ★★★★
Can't Get Over You (#2) by Shirley Jump (Fortune's Island) (NG)
✔Bound by Flames (#3) by Jeaniene Frost (Night Prince) (BR - 2-3-4) ★★★★
Midnight Fear (#2) by Leslie Tentler (Chasing Evil)

Author Review Requests
Back Again by Susan May (AR)
Rock Spider by Mira Gibson (New Hampshire Mysteries) (AR)
✔Stranded With the Scottish Earl by Anna Campbell (AR) ★★★★

Group Reads/Other
✔Barely Breathing (#1) by Pamela Clare (Colorado High) (NG) ★★★★★
Mrs. John Doe by Tom Savage (NG)
The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley (NG)
Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz (NG)
✔The Candidate's Daughter by Catherine Lea (NG) ★★★★
Deadline by Jessica James (JRS giveaway)

Audiobooks to Consider
✔Bird Box by Josh Malerman (GR - LOR) ★★★
✔Discovering You (#10) by Brenda Novak (Whiskey Creek) (NG) ★★★★
✔Blood Work (#1) (#7) by Michael Connelly (Terry Caleb) (Harry Bosch Universe) (GR - 2-3-4) ★★★★
✔Striking Distance (#6) by Pamela Clare (I-Team) (GR - TDD) ★★★★★
✔The Rock (#11) by Monica McCarty (Highland Guard) (PR - Tantor Audio) ★★★1/2
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (GR - LOR)
Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica (NG)
One with You (#5) by Sylvia Day (Crossfire)
The Poison Artist by Jonathan Moore
Passions of the Dead (#4) by L. J. Sellers (Detective Jackson)
Long Lost (#4.5) by Linda Castillo (Kate Burkholder)
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman (GR - LOR)
Criminal (#6) by Karin Slaughter (Will Trent)
Hunting Ground (#2) by Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega)
The House on Tradd Street (#1) by Karen White (Tradd Street)
I Am Pilgrim (#1) by Terry Hayes (Pilgrim) (GR - LOR)
The Silent Sister (#1) by Diane Chamberlain (Riley MacPherson) (GR - LOR)
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
Confess by Colleen Hoover
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Tuesday's Gone (#2) by Nicci French (Frieda Klein) (Audible)
Lord of Darkness (#5) by Elizabeth Hoyt (Maiden Lane) (RA - Narrator)
After the Crash by Michael Bussi (PR - Hachette Audio)
Coming Home (#1) by Mariah Stewart (Chesapeake Diaries) (Romance Audiobooks)
Raven Black (#1) by Ann Cleeves (Shetland)
Between the Devil and Desire (#2) by Lorraine Heath (Scoundrels of St. James)
Midnight Bites (#8.5 & #10.5) by Chloe Neill (Chicagoland Vampires) (PR - Tantor Audio)
The Bourbon King (#1) by J. R. Ward (The Bourbon Kings) (PR - Penguin/RH Audio)
☊The Lost Girls by John Glatt (PR - Tantor)
Magic Breaks (#7) by Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels)
Cold-Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas
Bound to Darkness (#13) by Lara Adrian (Midnight Breed) (PR - Tantor Audio)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Kiss of a Demon King (#7) by Kresley Cole (IAD)
The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Review


Barely Breathing
Bird Box
When Maidens Mourn
First Strike
Taking Fire
Discovering You
Black Friday
Fatal Identity
Burn Down the Night
Blood Work
Bound By Flames
Stranded with the Scottish Earl
Striking Distance
The Secrets She Kept
The Candidates Daughter
The Rock

No shortage of options, that's for sure. Happy reading!

I like that you have so many options. Cool to see thst you have Cindy Gerard. I really need to continue that series.

Great list, Jonetta.

I also have . If you want to buddy read, let me know.

Stephanie wrote: "Awesome list, Jonetta!! Happy July reading!!!! :D"

Thanks, Stephanie! Just a couple of stragglers from June this time.

Veronica wrote: "No shortage of options, that's for sure. Happy reading!"

Thanks, Veronica. The first few audiobooks are what I'm targeting to read but I have the whole list for mood listening:)

Viki wrote: "I like that you have so many options. Cool to see thst you have Cindy Gerard. I really need to continue that series."

I've loved every book in Girard's series except the last one. Fingers crossed that this one's better.

Lauren wrote: "Great list, Jonetta.

I also have . If you want to buddy read, let me know."

I'd love to do a buddy read, sometime after the middle of the month. Does that work for you?

Jonetta wrote: "I'd love to do a buddy read, sometime after the middle of the month. Does that work for you? "

Absolutely.

Lauren wrote: "Absolutely."

Yes! I'll set it up.

You have several books that are on my tbr Jonetta. Especially Don't You Cry and 11/22/63. Would love to hear your thoughts on those if you get to it. My Dad read The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and he highly recommends it. He keeps trying to get me to read it.

Mary wrote: "You have several books that are on my tbr Jonetta. Especially Don't You Cry and 11/22/63. Would love to hear your thoughts on those if you get to it. My Dad read [book:The Boys in t..."

Probably won't get Don't You Cry in this month but definitely next month.

Jonetta wrote: "Lauren wrote: "Great list, Jonetta.

I also have . If you want to buddy read, let me know."

I'd love to do a buddy read, sometime after the middle of the month..."

Enjoy Vlad!

You have some great choices for this month.

Thanks Kris & Robin!

Great list Jonetta. Hope you enjoy Cold-Hearted Rake. I love Lisa Kleypas.

Thanks, Angela! I'm a Kleypas fan, too.

Impressive list as always. Many I want to get to sometime.

Thanks, Laura.