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Team 4 Players
Captain: Krissy
Susan A
Amanda A
Katherine

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ALTERNATE LIST:
*Titles exclude leading articles like A, An, The)
❀Each number corresponds with the spot on the board.
❀ Colors: The cover has to be at least 50%
❀ Locations: As long as the book takes part at all in the given location .
❀ Shelves: Any book on the given shelf
❀ Publication Years: I'll be using how GR has it's publication date listed.
❀ Authors Names: The first, middle, or last name of the author is ok.
❀ Cover Items: Must have the given item on the cover
❀ Titles: Only the first word of the title. A, An, And, and The do not count.
So if the letter is B: The Best Day would be ok. Dear Betty would not be ok.



LIST:
2. Non-fiction
3. Title E
4. Europe
5. Goodreads Choice Awards 2014 or Published in 2014
6. Cover White
7. Cover Item: 2 or more People
8. Shapeshifter
9. Cover Brown
10. Florida
11. Humor
12. Fairy Tale Retellings
13. Goodreads Choice Awards 2015 or Published in 2015
14. Cover: Pink
15. Freebie/Kindle Unlimited/ARC
16. Best Book Boyfriends
17. Title R
18. Taboo Romance
19. Cover Item Food
20. Author J
21. New York
22. Cover: Blue
23. Multi-Colored (3 or More Colors)
24. Cover Item Building(s)
25. Title S
26. Book that one of your teammates read shelf rated a 5-star
27. Set in the South
28. Author A
29. Sports/Athletes
30. Cover: Yellow
31. Music/Instrument
32. Author H
33. Cover Item No People
34. Law Enforcement/Military
35. Debut Novel or Debut Author
36. Cover: Gray/Silver
37. Teammate recommends (at least one from your TBR and at least one NOT on your TBR)
38. College
39. Cover Item Moon or Sun
40. LGBT
41. Single Parent or Widower
42. Three Word Title excluding like A, An, The (i.e. Behind Closed Doors or Etched in Bone)
43. Shirtless Cover
44. Enemies to lovers (must state how book qualifies i.e. listopia or precis)
45. Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 or Published in 2016
46. Paranormal
47. Friends to Lovers (must state how book qualifies i.e. listopia or precis)
48. Magic
49. Series featuring Groups such as Sisters or Brothers or BFFs
50. Science Fiction
51. Seasonal Theme (i.e Christmas, Halloween etc)
52. Cover Orange
53. Series featuring Groups such as Sisters or Brothers or BFFs
54. Title D
55. Male Author
56. One Word Title excluding articles like A, An, The (i.e. The Witness or Divergent)
57. Cover Green
58. Contemporary Romance
59. Suspense/Thriller
60. 20th Century Novels (January 1, 1901 - December 31, 2000)
61. Cover Item Water
62. Title C
63. Cover Item An Animal
64. Cover: Purple
65. Goodreads Choice Awards 2012 or Published in 2012
66. Two Word Title excluding like A, An, The (i.e. Deadly Silence or The Hunger Games )
67. Standalone
68. Four or more Words Title excluding like A, An, The (i.e. The Girl on the Train or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
69. Favorite Author
70. Author S
71. Set in a Fictional Location/Universe
72. Title W
73. Erotica
74. Second chance love (must state how book qualifies i.e. listopia or precis)
75. Cover: Black
76. Tattoos
77. Young Adult/New Adult
78. Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 or Published in 2013
79. New Release (first Published within 6 months of this challenge)
80. MC is a minority (Non-Caucasian)
81. Cover Item Weapon(s)
82. Love Triangle or Ménage
83. Book to Movie (must state how book qualifies i.e. listopia or precis
84. Dystopian
85. Title L
86. California
87. Number in the Title (i.e. Third Grave Dead Ahead or Every Fifteen Minutes)
88. MC has a Pet
89. Female Author
90. Set in the Midwest
91. Space Opera
92. Cover Item Vehicle/Mode of Transport
93. Aliens
94. Depression/Mental Illness/Disability (I’ll accept drug abuse, self-harm etc)
95. England
96. Crime or MC is a criminal
97. Fantasy
98. Detective/Law Enforcement
99. Cover Red
100. Horror
101. Road Trip
102. Author L
103. Love Triangle or Ménage
104. Title G
105. Author B
106. Mystery
107. Set in the Pacific Northwest
108. Steampunk
109. Multicultural
110. Inspirational
111. Title T

Hi ladies!

TRACKING

Week #1
Thursday: Spot 4
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✓Krissy: Healing Touch, Rags and Riches #4
✓Susan A: Out for the Night, Browerton University #4
✓Amanda A: Be Mine Forever, St. Helena Vineyard #4
✓Katherine: The Earl's Scandalous Wife, Marriage by Scandal #4
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Sunday: Spot 10
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✓Krissy: Falling Into Bed with a Duke, The Hellions of Havisham #1
✓Susan A: Fishy Riot, Standalone
✓Amanda A: Where Azaleas Bloom, Sweet Magnolias #10
✓Katherine: This Plague of Days, Season 1, This Plague of Days #1
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Week #2
Thursday: Spot 15
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✓Krissy: Shadow Fray, Shadow Fray #1
✓Susan A: The Unexpected Heiress, A Nick Williams Mystery #1
✓Amanda A: If You Were Mine, The Sullivans #5
✓Katherine: The Spook's Mistake, The Last Apprentice #5
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Sunday: Spot 17
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✓Krissy: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Standalone
✓Susan A: Taking, Voices #7
✓Amanda A: Roman, Cold Fury Hockey #7
✓Katherine: With Spring Comes the Fall, Living with the Dead #1
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Week #3
Thursday: Spot 21
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✓Krissy: An Arresting Ride, Survivors Find Love #2
✓Susan A: Damaged Goods, Standalone
✓Amanda A: Gifted Thief, Highland Magic #1
✓Katherine: The Black Cauldron, The Chronicles of Prydain #2
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Sunday: Spot 22
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✓Krissy: Spencer Cohen, Book Two, Spencer Cohen #2
✓Susan A: The Mystery of the Curiosities, Snow & Winter #2
✓Amanda A: Truffled to Death, A Chocolate Covered Mystery #2
✓Katherine: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter #2
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Week #4
Thursday: Spot 26
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✓Krissy: Asa, Marked Men #6
✓Susan A: The Queen & the Homo Jock King, At First Sight #2
✓Amanda A: Town in a Lobster Stew, A Candy Holliday Mystery #2
✓Katherine: The Spook's Sacrifice, The Last Apprentice #6
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Sunday: Spot 31
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✓Krissy: The Sum of All Kisses, Smythe-Smith Quartet #3
✓Susan A: Alien Baby, The Traveler #3
✓Amanda A: Dating You / Hating You, Standalone
✓Katherine: Pride and Prejudice, Standalone
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Week #5
Thursday: Spot 35
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✓Krissy: Hard Wired, Cyberlove #3
✓Susan A: The Archer's Arrow, A Ren Faire Romance #3
✓Amanda A: Decaffeinated Corpse, Coffeehouse Mystery #5
✓Katherine: The Earl's Wallflower Bride, Marriage by Arrangement #3
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Sunday: Spot 37
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✓Krissy: The Countess Conspiracy, Brothers Sinister #3
✓Susan A: Bold, Blue Boy #3
✓Amanda A: The Firework Exploded, The Holidays #3
✓Katherine: Perilous Princess, Scandalous Sirens #3
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Week #6
Thursday: Spot 41
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✓Krissy: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries, Boystown #1
✓Susan A: Raider, Norse Saga #1
✓Amanda A: Among the Hidden, Shadow Children #1
✓Katherine: The Sword in the Stone, The Once and Future King #1
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Sunday: Spot 43
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✓Krissy: Whispers in the Night, The Moonlight Breed #3
✓Susan A: Feral Dust Bunnies, Offbeat Crimes #4
✓Amanda A: Buns, Hudson Valley #3
✓Katherine: The House of Hades, The Heroes of Olympus #4
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Hello! I've been waiting for this challenge to start up again. I'm happy to be playing again. I like the alternate list for this round. Not too many lists, which I always find difficult. I try not to use it, but I can see I don't have many options for 8.

Hi team!

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Week #7
Thursday: Spot 46
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✓Krissy: One Grave at a Time, Night Huntress #6
✓Susan A: Taming the Omega, The Rogue Pack #4
✓Amanda A: Cowboy After Dark, Thunder Mountain Brotherhood #6
Katherine: Critical Failures IV, Caverns and Creatures #4
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Sunday: Spot 52
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✓Krissy: The Apprentice, Rizzoli & Isles #2
✓Susan A: The Monet Murders, The Art of Murder #2
✓Amanda A: Atlantis Redeemed, Warriors of Poseidon #5
✓Katherine: The Bunker, The Infected #2
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Week #8
Thursday: Spot 53
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✓Krissy: Cowboy Way, Blaecleah Brothers #3
✓Susan A: Glen & Tyler's Paris Double-cross, Glen & Tyler #3
✓Amanda A: Oh Say Can You Fudge, Candy-Coated #3
✓Katherine: The Hungry Land, Living with the Dead #3
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Sunday: Spot 59
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✓Krissy: The Secret of Shadow Ranch, Nancy Drew #5
✓Susan A: Coach's Challenge, Scoring Chances #5
✓Amanda A: Caramel Crush, Cupcake Bakery Mystery #9
✓Katherine: The Blood of Olympus, The Heroes of Olympus #5
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Week #9
Thursday: Spot 62
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✓Krissy: Don't Twunk With My Heart, Loving You #2
✓Susan A: Barbarian Alien, Ice Planet Barbarians #2
✓Amanda A: The Dead Will Tell, Kate Burkholder #6
✓Katherine: Playing with Fire, Skulduggery Pleasant #2
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Sunday: Spot 67
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✓Krissy: Heart of the Steal, Alt: Standalone
✓Susan A: A.W.O.L., Mad Dogs #6
✓Amanda A: Night's Honor, Elder Races #7
✓Katherine: The Magician's Nephew, Chronicles of Narnia #6
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Week #10
Thursday: Spot 70
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✓Krissy: Come Unto These Yellow Sands, Standalone
✓Susan A: His Quiet Agent, Standalone
✓Amanda A: Until Harry, Standalone
✓Katherine: United States Of Apocalypse, Standalone
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Sunday: Spot 71
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✓Krissy: The Clue in the Diary, Nancy Drew #7
✓Susan A: Summer Heat, Standalone
✓Amanda A: Speak No Evil, No Evil Trilogy #1
✓Katherine: Birth of a Killer, The Saga of Larten Crepsley #1
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Week #11
Thursday: Spot 75
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✓Krissy: Desert Foxe, Skyler Foxe Mysteries #5
✓Susan A: Shoulda Been a Cowboy, Rough Riders #7
✓Amanda A: Undeniably Yours, Lucy Valentine #5
✓Katherine: The Road to Oz, Oz #5
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Sunday: Spot 79
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Krissy: Draakenwood, Whyborne & Griffin #9
✓Susan A: Draakenwood, Whyborne & Griffin #9
✓Amanda A: Quarterback Draw, Play-by-Play #9
✓Katherine: Spooks: I Am Grimalkin, The Last Apprentice #9
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Week #12
Thursday: Spot 83
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✓Krissy: The Wide Window, A Series of Unfortunate Events #3
Susan A: *Vacation*
✓Amanda A: Club Dead, Sookie Stackhouse #3
✓Katherine: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Chronicles of Narnia #3
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Sunday: Spot 88
Krissy: As I Am, Rags and Riches #8
Susan A: *Vacation*
Amanda A:
Katherine:

Want to be captain? Not particularly, but I am willing to do it if no one else wants to. However, I am not a good person to roll the die. I am in EST, so the timing isn't very convenient. You'd likely be waiting for me to wake up the next day and roll.

Is anyone in a more convenient time zone?

I can be captain. No problem.

How about name suggestions?

Here are a few ideas...

Chapter Chicks
Book Divas
We Be Book'N
Series Sirens
Fictionaries
Furious Four
Pajama Page Turners
4 Fo' Sho'
Fourtunate 4

I like Series Sirens.

Krissy wrote: "I can be captain. No problem.

How about name suggestions?"

Thanks Krissy!

Amanda A wrote: "I like Series Sirens."

I like this one too

I'll vote for Series Sirens too. I'll let Ezi know.

Cool team name. :D

Krissy --

How do we handle rolling? Just whoever is awake at the right time will roll and post it?

Well I'm in central time zone so I should be able to do it without a problem. But if it's 12:15 and I haven't rolled yet then whoever is up can go ahead and do it.

First roll is in only 9.5 hours! Is everybody ready? This hasn't really been a chatty team so far but I hope everybody is here and ready to play!

Yes! I'd like anything other than 8!

I'm existed! :D

I'm good with anything :)

You guys look ready. I kind of wish I was playing

I'm ready! :-)

Ezinwanyi wrote: "You guys look ready. I kind of wish I was playing"

Maybe next time :)

Krissy wrote: "Ezinwanyi wrote: "You guys look ready. I kind of wish I was playing"

Maybe next time :)"

There's always a drop out so I'll just hang out until then (hehehe)

WEEK #1- Thursday

Rolled: 4
Spot: 4


-4th in a series
-Alt: Europe

Week #1 - Thursday Reviews
Spot #4

✓Krissy: Msg 44
Healing Touch, Rags and Riches #4
✓Susan A: Msg 34
Out for the Night, Browerton University #4
✓Amanda A: Msg 42
Be Mine Forever, St. Helena Vineyard #4
✓Katherine: Msg 43
The Earl's Scandalous Wife, Marriage by Scandal #4

SELECTION POST
Week #1 - Thursday

Spot: 4
My Choice: Healing Touch
Pages: 153
How it Fits: Rags and Riches #4

Selection Post
Week #1 - Thursday

Spot: 4
Book: Out for the Night by A.J. Truman
Pages: 266
how it fits: Browerton University #4

Selection Post: WEEK #1 - Thursday

Spot: 4
Book: The Earl's Scandalous Wife
Pages: 248
How it Fits: Marriage By Scandal #4

Selection Post
WEEK #1 - Thursday

Spot: 4
Book: Be Mine Forever
Pages: 296
How it Fits: St. Helena Vineyard, #4

Completion Post
Week #1 - Thursday

Spot: 4
Book: Out for the Night by A.J. Truman
Pages: 266
how it fits: Browerton University #4

date read: 6/1/17
rating: ★★★

Out for the Night by A.J. Truman is the fourth book in the Browerton University series. The book can be read as a stand alone.
Although this story was funny at times, I thought part of the plot made no sense and it interfered with my enjoyment of the story. Coop hires himself as a G rated gigolo -- someone to make your boyfriend jealous, meet your parents, be your date. Awesome job! He gets hired by a fellow student to distract a classmate who is scoring too high in a class, thus wrecking the curve. This is that part I am not okay with. I like the idea of the fake boyfriend or friend as a plot...it's just paying someone to wreck someone's grades...well actually I think that would make an interesting plot too...ugghh I'm making a mess of this.

Matty was scoring high grades in a robotics class. He was getting As and the rest of the class was getting Cs. His classmates were actively mad at him and tried to push him into scoring lower so that they would get a higher curve. This makes no sense to me . Why would anyone expect or think it was even possible to convince Matty to score lower on his tests so that they could score higher? I can see being passively mad...like a general, wow it sucks that one person is wrecking the curve, but not taking it personally and expecting that person to change to their own detriment and your benefit.

In addition, Matty's personality as originally presented, would not have allowed for him to perform so poorly. I think it was inconsistent. Spending too much time with his boyfriend might make his grades slip a little bit, but the person presented in the beginning of the book would not let their grades slip that much. After the heartbreak, sure. Before, I don't buy it.

And now, I'm picking it apart. I really liked that boy on the cover & I liked the gigolo plot.

Krissy -- please let me know if you want me to change the format of the completion post.

Susan A wrote: "Krissy -- please let me know if you want me to change the format of the completion post."

Looks good to me :)

Krissy wrote: "Susan A wrote: "Krissy -- please let me know if you want me to change the format of the completion post."

Looks good to me :)"

Looks great to me too

New roll in just under 13 hours :)

I'm finishing up my book now. How is everybody else doing?

I'm half way done, I'll be finished in a couple of hours. :D

Awesome! Remember there is no rush though. So take your time. I just wanted to check in with everybody :)

I read my book yesterday and will post it now.

Completion

Spot 4
Book: Be Mine Forever by Marina Adair
Date Read: 6/2/17
Rating: ★★★★

This was a cute romance with some humor mingled in. I love the DeLuca family and how each brother has found their HEA so far. Trey was commitment phobic with no plans of ever settling down but I liked how Sara changed his plans. It was also sweet how he became involved with Sara's son, Cooper, and helped him out. Marina Adair's books remind me a little Jill Shalvis, who is one of my favorite contemporary romance authors. I am enjoying this series and definitely plan to continue with it and look for other books by this author.

Completion Post: Week #1 - Thursday

Spot: 4
Book: The Earl's Scandalous Wife

Pages: 248
How it Fits: Marriage By Scandal #4
Date Read: 3rd June
Rating: ★★

Review:
This was my least liked book in this series and it kinda bored me. The plot revolves around the heroine's secret past and her evil brother which is obvious. She doesn't act as innocent as she should pretend be, to be believable to society as a whole to be fooled by it. The whole needless melodrama caused by the heroine not trusting her husband kinda vexed me to no end, I was close to grinding my teeth at points. The inconsistencies in the era it was set in and country, couldn't be overlooked. Sadly because I enjoyed the other installments.

COMPLETION POST
Week #1 - Thursday

Spot #4

Healing Touch
Completed: 6/03
Rating: ★★
Review: Easily my least favorite of the series so far. The pace was very wacky. As soon as there is a glimmer of a beginning to their relationship the time jumps and all of a sudden they have "been fooling around for weeks." So we never got to experience their growing feelings for each other. It was basically I find you attractive then jumps immediately to I'm in love with you. Normally I don't mind insta love but in this case I just wasn't feeling it. I think it's because it is an insta love story trying to disguise itself as a slow burn story. Sorry, wasn't buying it.

AND I have to complain about that cover. Who the fuck are those guys? Not Dereck and Rodney. That's for sure. Dereck is supposed to be 17/18. Does that white model look 18 to you? Rodney is in his 20s (I think). Both guys on the cover look my age.

GREAT JOB, TEAM!!

Lol. Not 18.

WEEK #1- Sunday

Rolled: 6
Spot: 10


-1st in a series
-10th in a series
-Standalone
-Alt: Florida

SELECTION POST
Week #1 - Sunday

Spot: 10
My Choice: Falling Into Bed with a Duke
Pages: 372 pages
How it Fits: The Hellions of Havisham #1

SELECTION POST: WEEK #1- Sunday

Rolled: 6
Spot: 10
Book: This Plague of Days, Season 1

Pages: 300
How it Fits: 1st in a series: This Plague of Days, Season 1

Selection Post
Week #1 - Sunday

Spot: 10
Book: Fishy Riot
Pages: 236 pgs
how it fits: stand alone