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July Monthly Challenge Part 1- Twin Reads Challenge

Hello everyone, for the month of July 2021, we are having several different challenges at the same time.

The original ideas for these were suggested by Niharika when our group hit 700+ members, and we had promised to implement it in July. The credit for the main ideas goes to her, but we mods modified the ideas to make it work effectively, as we are a much larger group than we were then. :) Thank you so much for that, we really appreciate it!

We’d also like to give credit to The Midnight Readers as they were the first ones to start the ‘Twin Reads Challenge’, and the credit to the name also goes to them, though we are making some changes from their original challenge.

The first part to this 3 part challenge, is the twin reads challenge. In this challenge, two people will be paired up together to read books of their choice. To keep it fair, we’ll also be asking you to mention your preferred genres of reading while signing up, so that you can be paired with someone who has similar reading tastes. We will be allotting your team member.

Here are the rules for the challenge-

The team can read a book from the following options.

1. It can be a standalone book of any genre.
2. It can be published between 2010-2020.
3. The pair can decide a particular author to read from.
4. The pair can read a classic.
5. It can be with a black and white cover.

Books that won’t fit these categories won’t be counted. The reason for these rules is to keep the books chosen more precise.

The pairs will be expected to read books from these particular options. You don’t have to fit all of the prompts, just one of them is enough. We recommend reading books from the public domain so they are accessible to everyone.

Point System

Completing each book gets +20 points.

We are including points for the page count-

Books between 100-200 pages will have +10 points
Books between 201-300 pages will have +20 points
Books between 301-400 pages will have +30 points
Books between 401-500 pages will have +40 points
Books between 501-600 pages will have +50 points

And so on. Books below 100 pages will not count.

How to log the books?

Book-
Author-
Page Number-
Prompt-
Buddies-
Thread-
Total Points-

Here is the log-https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge created by- Bhavya and Nashita (and credit to Niharika)
Challenge rules made by- Bhavya

Hi :)

Hello! Excited to get started with this :D

Did you have any specific books in mind?

Which book are you’ll reading? :)

I don’t really have any specific books, but if they’re from my owned to read shelf that would be better, because I can’t access my library and prefer not to use ebooks

But if there’s any specific book you want to read that I don’t own I’ll try to find an ebook for it

Okay cool, even I didn't have any specific in mind. We can go through your owned TBR list and shortlist some. :)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

basically anything on this shelf

except a good girl's guide to murder, i lent that to my auntie 😂

okay, so I went through your shelf. Out of those I can start The Cruel Prince, The Darkest Minds or A Darker Shade of Magic. What do you think?

All of those fit the "can be published between 2010-2020" prompt

I think we should go for the Cruel Prince

I've been wanting to read it for so long, now I can finally get around to it

How much do you want to read per day?

okay great, The Cruel Prince it is :D

I see there are 30 chapters, so maybe 6 chapters a day?

Okay that’s fine

I’ll start today then

Great, I'm starting off too :)

I read the first 5 chapters

- I didn’t realise it was sort of set in the modern day, I was thinking it’d be more along the lines of ACOTAR
- Cardan acts just like the youngest sibling
- I love Jude’s character

Ahh okay, I haven't read ACOTAR yet, but yeah didn't know it was set in the modern day, either.

And yess, I love Jude's character too. I've reached about 13 chapters now, the plot felt a bit slow-building in the beginning, but feels promising now

Okay I’ll try to reach up to there

By the way what time zone are you in? Just tryna figure out the difference

Yep yep take your time!

I'm in the IST time zone, what about you?

I’m in the BST time zone

So you’re about 4 hours ahead of me

I only got to chapter 10 last night, I was quite tired, but I’ll try to read some more this afternoon

sure, take your time! I'm usually able to squeeze in more reading during weekends.

This book is picking up pace though, I'm finding it hard to keep it down :D

It is, I can barely put it down - last night I read till 1

Honestly everything in this book is really unexpected but I’m living for it

Exactly! Some of the things were quite unpredictable. And I like how the character of Jude is changing with the circumstances, sort of hardening and becoming resilient and power-seeking.

She’s showing you can be strong AND wear fancy dresses

Hahaha true :D

I completed the book! Could barely put it down, was so curious about the end :P

Ooh really!

I just finished chapter 20, sorry I'm a bit slow

(view spoiler)[I just finished the coronation chapter. I sort of expected Balekin to try to take the throne, and that Madoc would side with him, but it still came as a shock! So many people died in the space of a few pages (hide spoiler)]

You can start the next book, I'll try to catch up

(view spoiler)[Yep even I was expecting Balekin to make a move on the throne, but I couldn't guess about Madoc siding with him until the day right before the coronation, when Balekin visits Madoc around the time Dain was visiting Jude. And yeah, that part was pretty crazy, so much bloodshed :P (hide spoiler)]

yeah don't worry, you take your time! It's not like you're slow, I'm just able to cover more grounds during weekends and plus the book kept me guessing till the end.

I'll wait till you finish before starting the next book. I'm curious to know what do you think of the ending :D

I finished!

I loved the ending, it was quite fast

(view spoiler)[I knew Cardan would be high king by the end of the series, but I didn’t expect it to be this quick and this way

Also when him and Jude kissed. My brain was just going YES (hide spoiler)]

iamaunicornwithyellowfeet wrote: "I finished!"

Yayyy! :D

(view spoiler)[Hahaha yes I know! Even I loved that part! Cardan comes off as attractive and aloof for the most part, but I'm hoping to see more of his character later in the series than we get to see in this one.

I also really enjoyed how Jude's plan ended up her having the upper hand over both Madoc and Cardan, saving Oak and also getting into more power all at once. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[And there were so many twists at the end, like I didn’t expect for Oak to be of royal blood, but he was the key to everything.
And yes, Jude finally got what she wanted all this time, power of almost everyone who ever did anything to her (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[Exactly, I'd been wondering how the bit about Locke's mother ties in with the rest of the story, but surely didn't guess Oak's part in it. (hide spoiler)]

Same!

I can't wait to start the next book, (view spoiler)[I want to see what Jude and Cardan's relationship is like now (hide spoiler)]

By the way how many pages did your book have? I'm logging the book in the universal log, and that's one of the questions

Mine had 370 pages

Yep, can't wait to read the next installment :D

The ebook version I used had 385 pages, but you can log it as either. Its 30 points either way