You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Finishing Family Plots

⭐️Jane Hawk series 1/5
The Whispering Room
The Crooked Staircase
The Forbidden Door
The Night Window

John Corey series 1/7
The Lion's Game
Night Fall
Wild Fire
The Lion
The Panther
Radiant Angel

Ancient Egypt series 1/6
The Seventh Scroll
Warlock
The Quest
Desert God
Pharaoh

⭐️Bodenstein & Kirchhoff series 1/4
Bad Wolf
The Ice Queen
I Am Your Judge

⭐️Texas Rangers series 1/3
No Escape
You're Not Safe

⭐️Air Awakens series 1/5
reread Air Awakens
Fire Falling
Earth's End
Water's Wrath
Crystal Crowned

Helen Grace series 1/8
Pop Goes the Weasel
The Doll's House
Liar Liar
Little Boy Blue
Hide and Seek
Love Me Not
Down to the Woods

Lincoln Rhyme series 6/14
✔️The Twelfth Card
The Cold Moon
The Broken Window
The Burning Wire
The Kill Room
The Skin Collector
The Steel Kiss
The Burial Hour
The Cutting Edge

⭐️Throne of Glass series 4/7
Empire of Storms
Tower of Dawn
Kingdom of Ash

⭐️Shattered Realms series 1/4
Shadowcaster
Stormcaster
Deathcaster

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series 1/21
Tears of the Giraffe
Morality for Beautiful Girls
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Full Cupboard of Life
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
The Double Comfort Safari Club
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Precious and Grace
The House of Unexpected Sisters
The Colors of All the Cattle
To the Land of Long Lost Friends
How to Raise an Elephant

Plots not started

⭐️Crimson Lake series 0/3
Crimson Lake
Redemption Point
Gone by Midnight

Maze Runner series 1/5
✔️The Maze Runner I finished but this is where I part ways with the series.
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
The Kill Order
The Fever Code

Amos Decker series 0/6
Memory Man
The Last Mile
The Fix
The Fallen
Redemption
Walk the Wire

Cherie’s cemetery plot...we could always use a helping hand...



Penn Cage series 1/6
Turning Angel
The Devil's Punchbowl
Natchez Burning
The Bone Tree
Mississippi Blood

⭐️ Indicates planned Kills to finish this year

Finished family plots...Death finds everyone...


⭐️Nevernight series 3/3
✔️reread Nevernight (January read)
✔️Godsgrave (May read)
✔️Darkdawn (July read)

⭐️Dublin Murder Squad series 6/6
✔️Faithful Place
✔️Broken Harbour (February read)
✔️The Secret Place (March read)
✔️The Trespasser (April read)

Chaos Walking series 1/3
✔️The Knife of Never Letting Go (This is where Jannene parts way with the series.)

ABANDONED - Infernal Devices series 1/3
✔️Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Prince - We got about 20% in and called it quits.
Clockwork Princess

⭐️ABANDONED - Endgame series 2/3
✔️Sky Key (February read)
Rules of the Game - We got about 20% in and called it quits.

Unfortunate series added this year...They should have never crossed our path...



KILLED - Cemetery of Forgotten Books Series 4/4
✔️The Shadow of the Wind
✔️The Angel's Game
✔️ The Prisoner of Heaven
✔️The Labyrinth of the Spirits

Orphan Cemetery...One is such a lonely number...

✔️Verses for the Dead
✔️Crooked River
✔️Bloodless

Stand alones
✔️Crown of Oblivion
✔️Saving April

So your "unfortunate adds" are new series you've started and will continue, or new series you started and nixed reading on after the first book?

I love your gifs.

Unfortunate adds are the new series we are starting. :)

Thanks!

Jannene wrote: "Unfortunate series added this year...They should have never crossed our path..."

Hahahaha.... I love this! They had no idea they were coming into contact with serial killers!

So my understanding is that 2021 means no sleep!

You had enough sleep this year.

I can’t quite see all the new stuff and the complete gifs on my iPod, but you gave me a title that I need for a book published in 2019. Now, I can get on my laptop tomorrow and buy it and I will have three of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency orphans on my museum challenge.

We need to read the 5th Lady of the Art of Death book this year. I haven’t found a place for it on my challenge yet, but there is hope.

Jannene wrote: "You had enough sleep this year."

Nah don't think so! Fred is my witness!

Yes, if Dom and I can work through the Ladies Detective we can get to elephant on a cover. Maybe I will be desperate and read out of series just to get to that one. :/

I meant that the 20th No. 1 Ladies’ book was published in 2019. I had found places for #18 and #19 on my museum challenge and now I have a place for #20. Agh, I didn’t see he had released #21 last year.
Is there a task for an elephant on the cover? If not, I could make one up. Hahaha!

One of the covers does have two elephants on it!!

Cherie wrote: "Is there a task for an elephant on the cover? If not, I could make one up. Hahaha!"

Museum 3! For the "Collection" task.

Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "You had enough sleep this year."

Nah don't think so! Fred is my witness!"

Is there ever enough sleep? I can't remember a time as an adult when I had enough.

Your "unfortunate series" section made me smile 😃 I'll be keeping an eye on this thread!

Kristie wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "You had enough sleep this year."

Nah don't think so! Fred is my witness!"

Is there ever enough sleep? I can't remember a time as an adult when I had enough."

I know, when we were younger, we didn't want to sleep and now we're begging to sleep more!

Planned January reads:

First up, The Knife of Never Letting Go.

Faithful Place
(buddy read on 2021 thread)

Crown of Oblivion

I just finished The Knife of Never Letting Go. I was not as fond of the book as Dominique. She’s planning on continuing with the series and I’m waving the white flag surrendering.

I have the first Dublin Murder Squad book, both in text and audio. I am not sure if I can hurry up for your buddy read or not.

The thread said they don't have to be read in order. I would agree with that given I read the first two.

*I do have to admit there a handful of series that I read out of order. It is very limited.

I might join you for the Dublin Murder Squad series. I've read only the first one. I've also been said that it is not necessary to read the books in order.
Do you also have a schedule or the dates are still to be decided?

Sandra, we are finishing out this series. 3rd one this month and so on until they finish. We are reading with another group. Some have started this book already. Dom and I haven’t yet but will read it this month and discuss in the thread.

If you click the thread link I have above it will take you to where we are discussing it.

buddy read

Ok. Got it. Thank you. I already have too many reads planned for January. I guess I will pass for now.

Dom and I finished Faithful Place. We both really enjoyed the book. I found you really could read them out of order since this didn’t refer to the previous book.

Faithful Place was the first book I read in the series, and probably my favourite.

@Janice, that book was very good. I liked it better than the predecessors.

Dom and I are starting Crown of Oblivion. I got this new autographed, hardback book from my university store for fifty cents. You read that right! I bought one for Dom too and sent it to her.

Jannene wrote: "@Janice, that book was very good. I liked it better than the predecessors.

Dom and I are starting Crown of Oblivion. I got this new autographed, hardback book from my university st..."

Thank you again!

Jannene wrote: "@Janice, that book was very good. I liked it better than the predecessors.

Dom and I are starting Crown of Oblivion. I got this new autographed, hardback book from my university st..."

No, I haven't read Crown of Oblivion. I'll wait till I hear what you and Dom think of it before adding it to my wishlist. I'm trying to get my wishlist under control. Every time I add something, I try to delete a few.

We finished Crown of Oblivion. It was a good book but the author left a few loose ends. It had enjoyable characters, descriptive locations, but those loose ends seemed to cast shade on the book. Plus it felt like it was a rip off of the Hunger Games series with only a few changes.

Next up on our kill list; Nevernight. This is a reread because we waited too long to finish the 2nd and 3rd book.

We finished Nevernight. Next up Broken Harbour.

We finished Broken Harbor. Neither one of us thought it was a great book. None of the characters were likable and sometimes that works. In this book, it did not.

We started The Shadow of the Wind.

We finished our first series...The Dublin Squad. It was good but the last book really was a let down.

We just started Clockwork Prince. The Maze Runner is next on.

Oh, too bad about the Dublin Murder Squad.

I want to read thee Clockwork Prince too. I will check and see if I can get a copy to read.

We gave up on the Infernal Devices series. We didn’t like it. I abandoned the Maze Runner series.

We both just finished The Prisoner of Heaven. We will be reading the last book.

We also want to finish the Nevernight series Darkdawn.

I ‘be been waiting for you guys to get to the last book, to join you.

I am enjoying the Clifton Chronicles books.

We finished the last book in the Nevernight series; Darkdawn and it was good. I wish the ending had a different twist but it was still tolerable.

Now we are looking at killing off the Pendergast orphans! They are starting to multiply like bunnies.

Cherie wrote: "I ‘be been waiting for you guys to get to the last book, to join you.

I am enjoying the Clifton Chronicles books."

I do plan on reading the series,..... one day!

We finished Verses for the Dead. The first third of third was boring but then it picked up. We just started Crooked River. Then we will be caught up until the new release in August.

Yes, I am looking forward to the new book out in August!

I am currently reading the last book in The Mistress of the Art of Death series. The one written by the author’s daughter. It is a pretty good story, so far. A little drawn out, but written pretty much the same. The daughter’s prose is a little more sophisticated but the love between Rowley and Adelia is there without being so strained.

I am really enjoying listening to the first Penn Cage series book, The Quiet Game. I really like him and the story is definitely a thriller!

Cherie, we (I am speaking for Dom) would finish out the series with you if you want. We liked it too.

I am done with the first Penn Cage book and I am adding it to my series list.
I put the next book on hold at my library.
How many books have you finished?

We just finished the first book. I have the next one in paperback.

Awesome! I‘ll let you know when I get my copy.

Are you going to be reading the fourth book in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (The Labyrinth of Spirits) in August?

Cherie wrote: "Awesome! I‘ll let you know when I get my copy.

Are you going to be reading the fourth book in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (The Labyrinth of Spirits) in August?"

Yes we both will be.

Dom and I killed off our Pendergast orphans. We are current until August.

Now we are reading The Twelfth Card.

Dom and I finished The Twelfth Card. It was okay but I wasn’t all that interested.