Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Finished my book! :)

Yay! I hope you liked it!

I did, very much! And 93 points I like too haha

I just finished one of the weirdest worst books I have ever encountered. It was on par with Mirror Awakening as far as writing "style" and "plot" in that it lacked both. Wow. I was given this book as a joke, and silly me, I decided to read it. I was hoping for a new bit of wonderfully bad and therefore good, but alas.

oh, that sucks. I hate when a book wastes my time! LOL

I have read mainly enjoyable books so far, but that one- yuck.
Of course, I just poured myself some coffee, and started one of the short KU books on my kist, and on the first page is this line...

"I'd always had an infinity for birds."

Really? Ever heard of an editor or a dictionary?

Just an FYI, it says that my Sin Bingo was read by Rina (team Envy)... my "(Envy)" on the tracking spreadsheet was just to indicate that the sin specification applied to Envy. I don't know what team Rina is on, I got the Sin Bingo suggestion off of the tracking spreadsheet.

I can go find her!

Rina is on Team Luxuria.

I will fix it. Thanks Steven!

Jenny wrote: "I will fix it. Thanks Steven!"

Sorry I wasn't more clear in my post!

No problem. I just made an assumption. Silly me.

Jenny wrote: "I just finished one of the weirdest worst books I have ever encountered. It was on par with Mirror Awakening as far as writing "style" and "plot" in that it lacked both. Wow. I was given this book ..."

Is this the book that had a rating of like 1.75 on GR? That might even be lower than ratings for Mirror: Awakening. LOL

Steven wrote: "Just an FYI, it says that my Sin Bingo was read by Rina (team Envy)... my "(Envy)" on the tracking spreadsheet was just to indicate that the sin specification applied to Envy. I don't know what tea..."

Sorry, we should of put teams with the names when we added all of those to the suggestion list.

I'm glad you liked that book! It was one of my favorites in that series, though some people disagreed. But I think those people were just butthurt about Chaol.

I had planned on working on my ARC some more and picking up Thunderhead next, as it's another Sin Bingo... but now, after that ending of Heir of Fire, I need to know what happens to that one character left hanging big time. Now I'm torn!!!

WHAT DO I DO???

That's the one. There are of course some 5 star reviews as well, which inched up the overall rating. My mom would give me 5 stars if I asked her to as well.

Steven wrote: "I had planned on working on my ARC some more and picking up Thunderhead next, as it's another Sin Bingo... but now, after that ending of Heir of Fire, I need to know what happens to that one charac..."

Be human and change your mind! If your character is literally hanging off of a cliff, go save her!

Queen of Shadows may not be a Sin Bingo, but it'll work for lust and is about 150 pages more than Thunderhead. So it's still more points.

Though it's a toss up. They are both good books. But I will say once you read Queen of Shadows, you'll want to read Empire of Storms. And then read Tower of Dawn and then immediately Kingdom of Ash. Warning there is a huge cliffhanger in Empire you don't get a resolution for until Kingdom of Ash.

Also, did you read The Assassin's Blade? It's the collection of short stories that takes place prior to Throne of Glass. If not you'll want to read that as some people/things pop back up.

So maybe you should read Thunderhead before going further down the Sara Maas rabbit hole. LOL

Judith wrote: "I'm glad you liked that book! It was one of my favorites in that series, though some people disagreed. But I think those people were just butthurt about Chaol."

I agree... I really like Chaol, but I think that, in a world full of YA romances that are unrealistic, it's refreshing to see that sometimes love is broken, sometimes they aren't meant to be, sometimes things change the situation, and some relationships just can't come back once you're over the cliff. I think the dynamic nature of Chaol's growth has been fantastic, especially after Dorian telling him off over not accepting who they ARE over who he wishes they were.

Great book. I still like her Court series better, so far, but really enjoying this series. I also really like the introduction of Manon and Abraxos. Talk about plumbing the depths of character!

Jenny wrote: "Be human and change your mind! If your character is literally hanging off of a cliff, go save her!"

I can read both at the same time!!! :D

Judith, I read Assassin's Blade first, a few months ago. I remember *some* of the details LOL. I also remember when they were all coming out that people were a bit annoyed Maas pulled a Martin/Feast for Crows with the parallel story for Tower of Dawn because she left them hanging so long.

I'll read a little in each and then whichever grabs me I'll finish first. :)

Jenny wrote: "That's the one. There are of course some 5 star reviews as well, which inched up the overall rating. My mom would give me 5 stars if I asked her to as well."

Mom's are the best. I'd talk a good game about only giving a book written by Cameron the stars it deserves, but I'd probably give it five stars anyway. Because I can't resist his ridiculously cute face.

Especially when he was running around in his halloween costume for this year. Can't stand the cuteness. I think it's the only reason children survive to adulthood and aren't offed by their parents.

Steven wrote: "Judith, I read Assassin's Blade first, a few months ago. I remember *some* of the details LOL. I also remember when they were all coming out that people were a bit annoyed Maas pulled a Martin/Feas..."

You don't need to remember much from Assassin's Blade, but having a vague knowledge of some of the characters will make some things that happen seem less random and out of the blue.

I was so annoyed by Tower of Dawn because of the delays and I felt it was a money grab. But I ended up liking some of the characters introduced in that book and they matter in Kingdom of Ash. But it could of been way shorter. Chaol's storyline was a bit boring, I found the side characters way more interesting.

Say what you want about Maas, but I will give her credit for weaving all these random storyline threads together and wrapping it all up in Kingdom of Ash.

Judith wrote: "Can't stand the cuteness. I think it's the only reason children survive to adulthood and aren't offed by their parents."

I do believe it's the only reason they survive through the teenage years, when they stop being cute and start being wallet/energy/attitude-draining vampires with snark, acne, messy rooms, and lots of back-talk. Parents remember how cute they were and forgive. LOL!!!

Judith wrote: "Say what you want about Maas, but I will give her credit for weaving all these random storyline threads together and wrapping it all up in Kingdom of Ash."

I really like everything I've read by her. It's YA and has some tropey-ness (word creation!) but who cares? It's fun, her characters and plots have beautiful depth in many cases, and she's got such great worlds!

Judith wrote: "Can't stand the cuteness. I think it's the only reason children survive to adulthood and aren't offed by their parents."

Totally true! Not saying that kids can be a pain, but I totally get why some animals eat their young, lol.

Second book done, and half-way through book 3. Woohoo!

WOOHOO!

Steven wrote: "Judith wrote: "Say what you want about Maas, but I will give her credit for weaving all these random storyline threads together and wrapping it all up in Kingdom of Ash."

I really like everything ..."

I really like Sarah J Maas's books. She has been criticized a lot, but that's only because she became so popular, and some people don't like that. True that her books follow certain tropes, but like you said it's just so much fun. Who cares as long as you are enjoying it?

I finished book 2 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Strangely enough I wasn't enjoying it as much this time around. Rhage got on my nerves a few times, for some reason.
Well, on to book 3 !

*stays away from GR for 4 hours whilst studying*
*has 100+ messages to catch up*

O_O

I'm signing off till... no clue, since my manager scheduled a sunset type of even for our team only since most of us missed the official company one.... And that's tomorrow... after my exam... Let's hope the alcohol involved is for celebrate and not to forget my sorrows...

Anyway... I'm going to start reading soon!!!!


*happy dances*

✿ Claire ✿ wrote: "Steven wrote: "Judith wrote: "Say what you want about Maas, but I will give her credit for weaving all these random storyline threads together and wrapping it all up in Kingdom of Ash."

I really l..."

Yep, I've enjoyed everything from her I've read. And usually end up laughing throughout the books so what-evs haters. hehe

Sonia wrote: "*stays away from GR for 4 hours whilst studying*
*has 100+ messages to catch up*

O_O

I'm signing off till... no clue, since my manager scheduled a sunset type of even for our team only since most..."

Good luck with the exam. Pretty sure you are going to make it your b***h. So it'll be all celebration tomorrow

Judith wrote: "Good luck with the exam. Pretty sure you are going to make it your b***h. So it'll be all celebration tomorrow."

Hell yes! What Judith said. :)

Sonia wrote: "*stays away from GR for 4 hours whilst studying*
*has 100+ messages to catch up*

O_O

I'm signing off till... no clue, since my manager scheduled a sunset type of even for our team only since most..."

Definitely celebrations! See you after it's all over :)

What they said !
I'm sure you're gonna do great :)

A light at the end of the tunnel Sonia! Kick as on your exam, and celebrate really hard.
I will raise a drink to you when it is done.

Your day 4 reading inspiration:





Hope everyone is enjoying their books. (and the eye candy ;) )

Oh god... that belly button and lower torso and happy trail.... *dies*

Coming from a long and frustrating day at work, I just have to say Thank You for the pics.

Oh, and DIBS!!!!!!!

Sorry your day was frustrating!!! May I offer you a gaggle of Chrises? Two gaggles?

What a wonderful thought. Can they be naked?

I am halfway through my 14 books for this week! And, I am making great progress on the two clunkers I am reading and listening to.

Now, if I could just get someone to give me a bunch of money so I don't have to work, then I could read a bunch of longer books!

I’m sure they’d be okay with being naked. They love to serve, and give their consent for most anything. :)

Jenny wrote: "I am halfway through my 14 books for this week! And, I am making great progress on the two clunkers I am reading and listening to.

Now, if I could just get someone to give me a bunch of money so I..."

Go Jenny, Go!

I'm halfway through mine for the week as well. Not sure I'm going to finish my audio clunker this week though. I still have about 20 hours and it's really good so I don't want to rush it. But listening to it just reminds me I need to catch up on the Age of Myth series too!

Michael Sullivan's books are all so good! With great narration!!

I've not read him. More books to add to my TBR pile?

Jenny wrote: "I've not read him. More books to add to my TBR pile?"

Probably. One thing I like about him is he writes the entire series, then releases them one by one. So no long waits, etc between books. And very few plot holes since he can go back and clean things up, tie up plot threads, whatever before the books get released.

Great job Jenny!

I'm probably going to be a little less active over the next week or so. Parents are coming to stay for a week on Monday, so currently doing the "cleaning in all those awkward nooks and crannies that usually get overlooked" thing, and will probably be spending quite a bit of time on outings with them next week.
Also we're demolishing our shed tomorrow, which is going to be... fun..?

I should have no problems keeping up with my reading, but will just be around here a little less than I have been (because I haven't returned to work yet, and basically have no life outside of GR these days, lol).

I'm 3/4 of the way through my last book of the week, then will make a start on next week's chunky (slight understatement - 1300+ pages!) one.

Now off to shower dust and cobwebs out of my hair!

Have fun with your family!
For the shed...print a picture of someone you detest, and nail it to the shed wall. Demolition will then be really cathartic.

Have fun with the family and demolition!

So... It goes like this... I am now an officially istqb certified agile tester!!!