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PtP - Patronum Espresso (5)
Selection Post ~ Week 48. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated - Read a book from one of the provided lists:
Book: Collide by Gail McHugh
Pages: 395
Qualification: from Gut Wrenchers #34
Selection Post-Option 1📅Week #4 🔖Task 8. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated. Read a book from one of the provided lists.
📚Book: The Stopover ✍️By: T.L. Swan
📃Page Numbers: 525
🗝️How the book qualifies: Listopia: Starchy Hero Gets Un-Starched (Second Page~#170)
Week 4Option 1
8. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated
Read a book from one of the following lists:
Hero & Heroine Both Virgin
The Gut Wrenchers
Starchy Hero Gets Un-Starched
Clean Romances with Witty Worthwhile Women
Taking the Veil - Heroine in Convent or Disguised in Habit
Gay Romance Going to the Chapel
Gay Romance with a Straight Hero
If you chose option 1, you must read a book from one of the above lists.
Option 2
Key date: 14 April 2023
State date your teammate read the book and their rating
Book from your teammate's shelf must have been read on or after this date, and rated at least 3 stars.)
Option 3
Pass
Allowed one person per team per week, and once every 4 weeks per perso
✅Completion Post - Week #4The Stopover
Rating (1-5) 3.75⭐⭐⭐💫
Review: I wanted this to be 4 stars, and it could have been. For over 500 pages I gobbled this up in less than a day. The spice is there, and I do want to continue with the other Miles Brothers and their stories. This had spice, sexy CEOs, and an underlying mystery thread that was engaging enough to follow along with. It is on kindle unlimited with free audio companion which is great to binge to and I love dual POV narrators📙🎧 . The only thing that really turned me off was the arguing and bickering between the main characters, Jameson and Emily. They say some pretty mean things to each other and do not act like adults.
Selection Post:Week 4
8. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated - Read a book from one of the provided lists:
Pages: 239
Qualifies: #363 on the Starchy Hero Gets Unstarched list.
✅Completion Post - Week 3 Legends & Lattes
Rating (1-5) 3.5⭐⭐⭐💫
Review: This is a super "cozy read" and it was great for fall! This is not a high fantasy book by any means with little world building. It is literally about an Orc who "retires" and opens a coffee shop.☕🥯🧁 (perfect for this challenge too!) I read one review that said "it was like reading about someone playing Diner Dash and leveling up their restaurant" and I have to agree. It was a cute, cozy read and I would recommend it to people looking for a nice palate cleanser in between their high fantasy genre reads or just looking for a quick feel good book with low drama in a fun, fanciful world. ⚔️🏰🍄
🎉☕🍵Completion post ☕🍵🎉📅 Week #4 - Option 1📚
🎯8. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated - Read a book from one of the provided lists:☕🍵
📅 Date Completed: 20/10/2023 - 💖Rating: 4🌼🌼🌼🌼
📝Review ✍🏽 Dark, abuse, crime and suspense romance. Not for the faint hearted. Check trigger warnings.
Selection Post - Week 48. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated
Complicate Me by M. Robinson
Pages - 354
Qualification - On the 2nd option of lists: The Gut
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Completion Post - Week 48. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated
Complicate Me by M. Robinson
Pages -
Qualification - On the 2nd option of lists: The Gut
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Read - 10/19/23
Rating - 4 stars (should’ve given it a 3 but I am a notoriously high rater)
Review - I really struggled with enjoying this book. At the beginning, I thought I was going to end up loving it but the writing and the story line were very cringey. The author reused styles of dialogue for different characters, those types of missteps really throw me off. I can’t enjoy the book if I feel like the author didn’t put enough thought into the characters and they all talk the same and say the same cringey things. I need character development.
Week 5Option 1
10. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water
Read a book longer than 300 pages.
Option 2
Key date: 21 April 2023
State date your teammate read the book and their rating
Book from your teammate's shelf must have been read on or after this date, and rated at least 3 stars. Please note all three pieces of information on your post - teamie, date & rating.
Option 3
Pass
Allowed one person per team per week, and once every 4 weeks per person
Selection Week 5
Option 1 300+ pages
Book: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
Qualification: 300+ pages
Pages: 474
COMPLETION Week 5
Option 1 300+ pages
Book: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
Qualification: 300+ pages
Pages: 474
Review/Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lady Jane Gray, nine days a queen after Henry VIII in England, but cast as a Royal shifter. If I were 14 or 15, I would have given this 4.5 ⭐️. In places it was clever and funny, in other places it was just silly. King Edward as a bird, Queen Jane as a ferret, her husband Lord Dudley shifts to be a horse.
Selection PostWeek 5
Option 1
10. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water
Read a book longer than 300 pages.
Pages: 312
Qualifies: more than 300 pages
Selection Post-Option 1📅Week #5 🔖Task 10. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water. Read a book longer than 300 pages.
📚Book: Fourth Wing✍️By: Rebecca Yarrows
📃Page Numbers: 664, Kindle Edition
🗝️How the book qualifies: 300+ Pages
🌟☕ Selection post - Option 1☕ 🌟📅Week #5
🎯Task 10. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water. Read a book longer than 300 pages. ☕🍵
📜Page numbers: 303(1st Kindle edition)📖/ 9h19m 🎧
✅ How the book qualifies - 303 pages Gouda Friends
🎉☕🍵Completion post ☕🍵🎉📅 Week #5 - Option 1📚
🎯Task 10. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water. Read a book longer than 300 pages.☕🍵
📅 Date Completed: 23/10/2023 - 💖Rating: 4,5 🧀🧀🧀🧀
📝Review ✍🏽 This couple is adorable. Best friends to lovers, light romance with tons of yummy food and tons tons of scrumptious cheese. There is some light drama and a sprinkle of spice. the narration was perfection. Free on KU with audiobook included. 100% recommend.
Completion Post📅 Week #3 - Option 1📚
🎯Task 6. Green coffee beans-Read a book with green and brown on the cover.☕🍵
Read: 10/22/23
Rated: 4 - 4.5 stars
Review: What a wild ride for this book. Not sure I would have thought this was going to be the way Famine would end but as usual the horsemen start out as being jerks but I have to say Famine as a real pain. Not that Ana wasn't but she definitely didn't take shit from him. She was too good hearted as well. Which is fun y because she didn't have the easiest life. I so can't wait to see what's going to happen in the next book since this didn't end on good terms. Lol
✅Completion Post - Week #5Fourth Wing
Rating (5) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!!!
Review: YUP. Totally worth the hype and I LOVED the hell outta this book. I held off reading this until closer until Iron Flame was coming out so that I would not have the waiting period and book hangover everyone experienced. I can't stop thinking about this book, and that is obviously how I know I loved it and it is a top 2023 read. Read it in just about one sitting with the help of audible and no sleep!🐲🐉🐲 I am honestly thinking about re-reading this ALREADY to go back into all the details I missed.
Completion Post ~ Week 48. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated - Read a book from one of the provided lists:
Book: Collide by Gail McHugh
Read: 10/17/23
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
Wow! This book is nothing like I was thinking it would be, and it was simply amazing! Sadly, Dillon is a cheater and abuser. He takes not culpability for his wrong-doings. But he, Gavin, and Emily are involved in a triangle and Dillon somehow paints Gavin as the bad guy that he is NOT. What's so sad is that Emily, like far too many females, doesn't see that Dillon isn't giving her what she truly deserves and that he treats her terribly. Somehow it's all her fault and she accepts that. He manipulates her feelings since he helped her through the loss of her mother so she feels committed to him for that. Gavin is most definitely the better man, but Emily needed to see that...but did she? Things don't always turn out how we want them to!
Selection Post ~ Option 1Week 5
10. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water
Read a book longer than 300 pages.
Book: Into the Drowning Deep
Author: Mira Grant
Pages: 448
Qualification: Over 300 pages
Completion Post ~ Option 1Week 5
10. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water
Book: Into the Drowning Deep
Author: Mira Grant
Read: 10/24
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
This was another unexpected book/plot that I hadn't even dreamed of...I mean killer mermaids? lol Not what I've ever thought about beautiful mermaids, except perhaps the sirens. These mermaids are creepy and like aliens, and I like human flesh...so gross.
Tori Stewart is the marine biologist who has a sister, Ann, who she wants to avenge. She was on the Atargatis, now a ghost ship, when things went awry in the worst way. Actually, there are a lot of characters: Olivia Sanderson a reporter, her cameraman Ray, Dr. Toth, a sirenologist and more, so the story is quite complex in many ways. And if you need a deaf person for a challenge, there are twin deaf scientists.
Selection Post - Week 510. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water
Read a book longer than 300 pages.
Stealing Home by Grace Reilly
Pages & Qualification - 426
Selection Post-Option 1 - 📅Week #6🔖5. Coffee is a significant agricultural crop for many countries. Read a book with an MC who is a farmer
📚Book:Bittersweet
✍️By: Sarina Bowen
📃Page Numbers: 349 (kindle edition)
🗝️How the book qualifies: List:Farmers in Romance ~#3
📚SELECTION 📚Week 6
Task 5. Read a book with an MC who is a farmer
Option 1
Cooking With Love: Finding Love the Harvey Girl Way #1 by Cynthia Hickey
Pages: 206
Qualification: 1) tagged farmer x3, column 1 2) on Farmers in Romance list #15
UPDATED TO HEREIf I missed anyone, please let me know :-)
Week 6Option 1
5. Coffee is a significant agricultural crop for many countries
Read a book with an MC who is a farmer
Best Gay Cowboys
A book from one of the 'MM Blue Collar 20xx" lists - EG MM Blue Collar Books 2021
Farmers in Romance
Buzzed: Bee Keeping in Romance
Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy
If you chose option 1, you must read a book from one of the above lists. Please note the list when showing how your book qualifies.
Option 2
Key date: 28 April 2023
State date your teammate read the book and their rating
Book from your teammate's shelf must have been read on or after this date, and rated at least 3 stars. Please note all three pieces of information on your post - teamie, date & rating.
Option 3
Pass
Allowed one person per team per week, and once every 4 weeks per person
📚COMPLETION 📚Week 6
Task 5. Read a book with an MC who is a farmer
Option 1
Cooking With Love: Finding Love the Harvey Girl Way #1 by Cynthia Hickey
Pages: 206
Qualification: 1) tagged farmer x3, column 1 2) on Farmers in Romance list #15
Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A virorously Christian Western romance amount a very young woman who signs a contract to be a Harvey Girl train station waitress, and struggles with the tension between continuing in work she finds liberating and following for the restaurant's farmer turned chef.
SELECTION ~ Week 6Task 5. Read a book with an MC who is a farmer
Option 1
Book: Saved by the Rancher by Jennifer Ryan
Pages: 295
Qualification: #239 Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy
Selection Post - Week 6Option 2
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Pages - 400
Qualification - Read by One Sentence Audio Critic on July 7th, rated 5 stars
COMPLETION ~ Week 6Task 5. Read a book with an MC who is a farmer
Option 1
Book: Saved by the Rancher
Author: Jennifer Ryan
Read: 10/31
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
Let me start by saying that there is violence against females in this book, and it is very realistic and could be triggering for anyone who's been through rape and/or domestic violence.
I love the cover but any cover with a dog on it usually grabs my attention. To be honest, I ONLY read this book because I needed a book that had 95 in the page count intact, and I looked for over two hours. Once I saw that this one fit this challenge and a couple more it was a no-brainer. lol
Jenna married a man named David who ended up being very abusive. He was extremely wealthy and when she dealt with his abuse and told others, they either truly didn't believe her or just looked the other way due to his status. She eventually divorced him but he had his ways of stalking her and finding her only to commit more violence on her.
One day someone gives her a "hideaway" on a ranch with a man named Jack, and their relationship moves a bit (to me) unrealistically fast for a woman who's just experienced all that Jenna has.
Overall, there were some things that didn't ring true, such as my above paragraph, but overall I thought it was really good.
Completion Post - Week 510. Long Black - Double espresso with twice the water
Read a book longer than 300 pages.
Stealing Home by Grace Reilly
Pages & Qualification - 426
Rating - 5 stars!
Review - I loved this book and I loved every book in this series. I liked that in this series, the MC had a more complex dilemma. The other books in the series were sports and romance dilemmas, I liked that this one had more of a family/personal dilemma.
Completion Post - Week 6Option 2
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Pages - 400
Qualification - Read by One Sentence Audio Critic on July 7th, rated 5 stars
Rating - 5 stars
Review - Just like the other series I just read, I loved the other two books in front of this book and I loved this book also. The only thing I didn’t really like about this book was that it was too “academia”. At the end of the book the author puts in her notes that she thought she may have gone too far into the academia setting and I can agree with that. Although, I do agree that there is a place for it. Did I understand all of her PHD, scientific terms? No, I did not. But I loved the plot, the dilemma, the story line, all the same.
🌟☕ Selection post - Option 1☕ 🌟📅Week #6
🎯5. Coffee is a significant agricultural crop for many countries
Read a book with an MC who is a farmer ☕🍵
📜Page numbers: 476(1st Kindle edition)📖/ 9h51m 🎧
✅ How the book qualifies - from list No314 Save a horse ride a cowboy
❄️ Updated to here:Outstanding:
Week 4 - Carmen & Benita
Week 5 - Carmen
Week 6 - Carmen, Vanessa & Jessica
Carmen - you need to post a completion! 😉
Jane (PS) wrote: "❄️ Updated to here:Outstanding:
Week 4 - Carmen & Benita
Week 5 - Carmen
Week 6 - Carmen, Vanessa & Jessica
Carmen - you need to post a completion! 😉"
Does this mean my week 4 completion is missing?
I am sure I did it. Maybe I deleted by accident...that has happened before on my phone ...and I was travelling at that time.
See next post for Week 4 Completion....sorry.
MISSING COMPLETIONWeek 4
Option 2
Book: One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon
Qualification: on teammate's shelf, Carmen
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Teammate Read Date: August 10, 2023
Teammate Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is the 4th or 5th book series I have done about little, friendly witch-centric towns. I'm ready to move there. They are little Mayberry-type towns. This series, lightly paranormal, series opener sees a young woman go for a life second chance to a small town, where her first catering job has a corpse. Sort of similar to Joanne Flukes' Hannah Swenson series, but diet friendly (no dessert recipes).
Pages: 274 Kindle
SelectionWeek 7
Option 1
9. Caffe Americano
Book set in the Americas - South or North. (American continent and associated islands)
Book: Try Not to Die: In the Pandemic: An Interactive Adventure
Qualification (Option 1 - US): San Francisco Bay, CA (précise) .5 mile from land
Pages: 210
COMPLETIONWeek 7
Option 1
9. Caffe Americano
Book set in the Americas - South or North. (American continent and associated islands)
Book: Try Not to Die: In the Pandemic: An Interactive Adventure
Qualification (Option 1 - US): San Francisco Bay, CA (précise) .5 mi from land. The 7 mile rule of maritime law means that is US territory.
Pages: 210
Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5. I leaned toward a higher rating to get people to try this interactive book. You pick options at the end of chapters to construct different narratives. That being said, that model isn't fully actualuzed. The story sets families fleeing a pandemic on a cruise ship in San Francisco Bay. In full disclosure, my opinions may e warped. In May 2022, I caught covid on a cruise ship and I (and my spouse) were confined to our cruise cabin for 14 days, before 14 days of medical quarantine in a quarantine hotel in the UK. It was not fun.
One Sentence Audio wrote: "Jane (PS) wrote: "❄️ Updated to here:Outstanding:
Week 4 - Carmen & Benita
Week 5 - Carmen
Week 6 - Carmen, Vanessa & Jessica
Carmen - you need to post a completion! 😉"
Does this mean my week 4..."
Thanks Benita :)
🌟☕ Selection post - Option 1☕ 🌟📅Week #7
🎯9. Caffe Americano
Book set in the Americas - South or North. (American continent and associated islands) ☕🍵
📜Page numbers: 256(1st Kindle edition)📖/ 6h45m 🎧
✅ How the book qualifies - Setting: Salem, Massachusetts (United States) Betwixt
Selection Post ~ Option 1Week 7
9. Caffe Americano
Book set in the Americas - South or North. (American continent and associated islands)
Book: Good Girl Complex
Author: Elle Kennedy
Pages: 320
Qualification: Setting is in South Carolina, USA (North America)
I’ll post my completion in the morning. It’s been crazy with family stuff. Sorry for falling behind. I promise to catch up
Completion Post:Week 4
8. Espresso - for the serious/straight coffee drinker, and unadulterated - Read a book from one of the provided lists:
Read: 11/5/23
Rated : 4.5 Stars
Review :
Sloane and Gunner, who would have thought these two would become a source of learning experience. Both with some major walls placed from what they've been through can make for some tough people. These two are perfect for each other even with their differences which to me aren't much different if someone would just stop judging by the cover. I really enjoyed all these characters. This might be one of my favorites in the series.
Completion PostWeek 6
Option 1
Read: 11/5/23
Rated : 4 stars
Review : Hot ranchers!
Well definitely a sexy hot rancher that no one for sure wouldn't expect but the fact that he's a shifter too can be unexpected and a bit scary. I have to say this was definitely a fun, cute and sexy story. I wouldn't mind running into a sexy shifter only to find out that he's someone your sister knows. Family fun, lol.
Week 7Option 1
9. Caffe Americano
Book set in the Americas - South or North. (American continent and associated islands)
Option 2
Key date: 5 May 2023
State date your teammate read the book and their rating
Book from your teammate's shelf must have been read on or after this date, and rated at least 3 stars. Please note all three pieces of information on your post - teamie, date & rating.
Option 3
Pass
Allowed one person per team per week, and once every 4 weeks per person
Selection PostWeek 7
Option 1
9. Caffe Americano
Book set in the Americas - South or North. (American continent and associated islands)
Pages: 240
Qualifies: set in Wilmington, Georgia
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