Dewey's 24 Hr Read-a-Thon ~ Kickoff

It's DEWEY time!! I am up and about already, ready to go. Hubby is off to work, so I have 9 hours on my own to read before He gets home. The Opening questions are up already, so let me go ahead and get those answered!! :)


1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
I am in North Carolina. We've been here 3 years in May.

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
Long time readers of my blog know I'm I'm not a pre-planner. I am a Fly-By-er. That being said, I DO have a rather extensive TBR pile (see below) to choose from. This is because I'm doing a GoodReads Challenge (in NRBC) which consists of spelling out words, using titles, authors and main character names. For this challenge, we've been doing colors. Our word changes at 10pm my time, so I've picked out books that cover this weeks word (Granite Gray) as well as the word that starts tonight (Pink Flamingo). See below for my rather long TBR list. I won't get to them all, of course, but I wanted a lot of options, though I still may stray. As for the question ~ I'm most looking forward to A New Hope by Robyn Carr and Forged by Erin Bowman.

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
Is this a trick question?! ALL of them!! I'm definitely a junk food person. I don't agree with a lot of peoples assessments of not doing ALL junk and doing something healthy. Nope. If you are used to all junk, all junk definitely doesn't bother you. No healthy crap here. :) I have Hostess Donuts for breakfast. Snacks for the day include ~ Skittles (minus the green ones, damn them for getting rid of LIME, the best Skittles flavor ever), Smores Goldfish, Brownies and Oreos. Alfredo for lunch and don't know what for dinner, something quick, probably pizza if Hubby remembers to grab it, if not than chicken strips and tater tots. :) And of course, lots and lots of Mountain Dew! :)

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
HI! I'm Karsyn, in my mid 30s, deeply in love with and married to my high school best friend. I LOVE to read, obviously, and am blessed with a ton of time to read. I also love to write LONG LONG letters to my pen pals (15+ typed pages) and play video games. I built my first gaming PC in Feb and I love it so much! My Precious Kindle is never far from my side and I recently became an audiobook fan. I read a variety of genres and really don't like to box myself in when it comes to genres. It's easier to say what I WON'T read, which is ~ chick-lit (if shopping is involved, no thank you), New Adult (OMG gag me now, I've only read one New Adult book I liked, it HAS to have tons of action or I won't read it), religious stuff, and Western. I'm all about action and suspense in my books for the most part. My most favorite book EVER is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

5) If you participated in the last RaT, what’s 1 thing you’ll do different today?
Same stuff as last time, a variety of books I've been looking forward to, and short audiobooks, rather than when I tried a long one my first time around. Not smart! :) This time I decided not to cheer, I just wasn't up for it, so I'm going to focus on reading and only post occasionally. I'm a new post each time person. I definitely don't like doing one long post.

Potential TBR

(in no particular order)

Kindle Books


Audio Books


THANKS for visiting! Leave me a link, and I'll come check out your kick-off post

Audio listening time/pages: 4 hr 30 min / 576 pages
Kindle reading time / pages: 12 hr / 1,377 pages
Total number of books I've read: 7
Total Pages Read: 1,953 pages
Total Time Read: 16 hr 30 min
Currently Reading: Floors by Patrick Carman
Challenges Participated in: Kick-off Intro Meme
Completed Books:

Completed Audio Books:

TBR List ~ April Review ~ Almost Dead

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Today is Dewey's!! Check back with me through the day to see my progress. I'm aiming for the full 24 hours again, and have a goal of 10 books! We'll see if I can do it! :)

At the beginning of March, I posted 3 books I was interested in reading, for you all to pick ONE for me to read and review. It was a close one this time, a 3 way tie until just before the last day.

The book chosen for me was ~



All the books I had for this month for you to choose for me were from series that I have been reading. The books were all the next ones that I needed to get to and were the 2nd, 3rd and 5th in their respective series. The book that was 5th was the one chosen for me.

Let me premise this by saying, I did enjoy the book. This series isn't my favorite series all around (other wise I would have read it when it first came out) but it's an ok enough series that I've decided to keep with it for the time being. The previous book ended up on a really big cliffhanger, so I did want to see what happened next.

The series is about Lizzy Gardner who is a private detective and the two girls who work with her ~ Haley & Kitally. In this book, Lizzy is going through her own private hell, as she and her guests were attacked on her wedding day and now her fiance lays in a coma. But life for Lizzy has to continue on and she's contacted by a woman who swears that her group of friends, a group of bullies, are being hunted down and killed. The police don't believe her, and neither does Lizzy, at first.

The killings and the killer were quite interesting this time around. I definitely enjoyed that part of the story along with what Haley was doing. Haley, in the other books, has made herself a superhero for the weak who are taken advantage of, and she takes the law into her own hands. It's definitely different and I can't help but cheer for her.

My least favorite parts of the whole series is Lizzy's sister. I can't stand the woman, and it was worse this time with the sister taking yet more abuse from her husband. Luckily, she was only in this one twice, but they were both pretty bad scenes, so I didn't like that at all. I'm hoping that Haley's kind of justice prevails there at some point.

It was also hard for me because I've sat by my Hubby's bed one too many times after He's recovered from medical issues, once of which He was in a medically induced coma for a few days. So that part of the book was emotional and hard for me to read.

The end was satisfying though and I do look forward to more of these and seeing what happens next.

Thanks for the pick!!

I'm doing Dewey's!

So, it's that time of year again ~ Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon. This will be my 3rd Dewey's and just as the two before, I plan on going the full 24 hours.

The first time, that was easy for me, I occasionally stay up all night anyways, and have troubles falling asleep often anyhow, so 24 hours is pretty easy for me. The first one was super easy, the 2nd one I started to drag around hour 20, but it ended up because it was the start of a cold coming on and I was just super drained, but I still made it to the end. :)

I've learned a few things in my first two Dewey's. The first time, I made the mistake of listening to an audio that was REALLY long (took 9 hours for the last 30%) when my eyes needed a break. I realized that shorter audiobooks were definitely the way to go.

The first time through I read for 20 hours and completed 5 books, one of which (the audio) I was already 70% through. The last time, I read for 18 hr & 30 minutes and completed 8 books ~ 3 novels, 4 audio novellas and 1 audio novel.

I don't have any firm plans for this one. I'm a little off, it's a tough time of year for me, so I've been quiet pretty much everywhere. I don't know that I'll post often this time. Last time, I posted every 4 hours and that was a good mix of reading and posting, but I might not even do that this time. We'll just see how I feel and I'll wing it. I didn't feel up for cheering this time around, and I asked that cheerleaders not come here because OMG do they work their butts off, so I'll only hear from my faithful readers likely. If you are also joining in, I hope you'll say HI at some point.

As you all know, I never make TBR lists, because I don't stick with them, but I did not read some new releases or NetGalley books so I'd have them for Dewey's. So I do have some books I'm planning on, we'll see if I get to them. I also have some shorter audiobooks for when my eyes get sleepy.

GOALS

My goals for Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon ~

• Read at least TEN (10) books
• Read at least 1 author requested / NetGalley book
• Read at least 1 book from my 365 Days of YA challenge
• Do any Challenges that appeal to me, even if done late
• Have Fun!

Book Review ~ The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie

Finished ~ The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie
Completed 03/28/15
4 of 5 stars
280 page Kindle book


I received this book from NetGalley for my honest review.

The Nowhere Emporium is a cute children's book about a magical store that moves around in both geographical locations and time. Daniel stumbled across the store while trying to run away from some bullies, and is drawn into it's magical world.


This book was quite cute, even though it tried really really really (times 100) had to be The Night Circus. It was most definitely NOT The Night Circus. It lacked the beautiful language and flow of the The Night Circus. But it tried very hard.

Everything about it drew inspiration from TNC. I could list dozens of ways, but don't want to take the time plus it'd be spoilers, but some include ~ the whole thing existing because the rooms are described in a book, it opens at night and closes at dawn, a winter room, a room for wishes, an older ageless bad guy and a hotel that is lodging for the performers, that moves around with the shop. If you have read The Night Circus, you'll understand these, and if not, well lets just say, is very similar, or the same.

The Nowhere Emporium lacks in the real world feel of The Night Circus, but still is a cute story. The characters are likable enough, though there's really not a whole lot of character building. The building itself, and the rooms within are really neat, but it leaves you wanting more. The rooms are described in just the briefest of ways before moving on.

I still did really enjoy the book. It was cute, and a light easy read. It's definitely more geared for kids, though some adult fans of Middle Grade books may enjoy it as well. What it lacks, it makes up for with charm, though I'd love to see it with a lot more detail, and a little less exact ripoffs from The Night Circus.


Setting = A
Plot = B
Conflict = B
Characters = B
Theme = A

TBR List ~ April Results

This poll meme is hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life.


Last week I posted 3 books for you, my readers, to pick one for me to read and review. The results are in! :) From the start, it was super close. It was a tie until just a few days ago when one took one extra vote ahead of the others. I never get many votes, this time just 14, but what bums me out most is that the post had 48 views! I sure wish all of you that had viewed that post would have voted. Ah well. I'll stop whining about it now. Anyways.

So, the choices I gave you to choose from were ~

The Books:

And the Winner is:

Come back in two weeks for my review of Almost Dead!

To Be Read List ~ April Poll

This TBR Poll meme is hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life.

Here's How it Works:

On the first Saturday of each month, I will post three books from my TBR List. You all will help me choose which book I will read next, through the poll listed. On the second Saturday of the month I will announce the book that won. Then, I'll read the book and on the last Saturday of the month I'll post a review.

Welcome back for another TBR poll. This month I decided to go with books in series that I need to get back to. These books are the 2nd, 3rd and 5th books in a series that I have read, and I just haven't gone on to these books yet, though I enjoyed the series. So, it's up to you to decide which book to move on to this month.

I hope more of you will vote for me. It only takes a second to click on one of the books. Only something like 20% of the people who viewed my poll last month actually voted. If you are seeing this, please vote for a book, just pick any!! Sigh. My post has been viewed 6 times, and no one voted. :/

The Books:

The Blurb:

Life for private investigator Lizzy Gardner will never be the same. It’s been three weeks since her fiancé, Jared, was shot on what was supposed to be their wedding day. He’s in a coma now, and Lizzy is being forced to make a decision she might not be able to live with.

But a string of deaths has forced her to get back to work. While they appear to be unrelated accidents at first glance, a closer look shows they all have something in common. More than a decade earlier, the victims were all members of the Ambassador Club at a Sacramento high school: a posh posse that bullied other students, one of whom remains tormented years later.

The Blurb:

A lie, a long-ago affair, a dark desire--everyone has secrets they take to the grave. No one knows that better than FBI special agent Smoky Barrett. But what secret was a very private young woman keeping that led to her very public murder? That's the question Smoky and her handpicked team of experienced manhunters are summoned to answer by the FBI director himself.

As a mother, Smoky knows the pain of losing a child. As a cop with her own twisted past, she takes every murder personally. Brilliant, merciless, righteous, the killer Smoky is hunting this time is on his own personal mission. For in his eyes no one is innocent; everyone harbors a secret sin. Soon Smoky will have to face the secret she's carefully hidden even from her own team--and confront a relentless killer who knows her flaws with murderous intimacy.

The Blurb:

The fabulous foursome readers embraced as The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search--a search to find Mr. Benedict. It seems that while he was preparing the kids' adventure, he stepped right into a trap orchestrated by his evil twin Mr. Curtain.

With only one week to find a captured Mr. Benedict, the gifted foursome faces their greatest challenge of all--a challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place and will require them to fight for the very namesake that united them.

Voting closes on 4/10 at 11:59pm EST.

March Reading Log & Wrap-Up Post

This is my monthly reading log that I am posting for a swap at Swap-Bot. March saw my usual reading numbers again, this was because I spent a few weeks sick and a few days I laid around doing nothing but listening to audiobooks. Plus, we started a new challenge in my group at GoodReads, so of course I started reading a lot for that. I found a good mix of reading and gaming, though sometimes I do want to get to games more, but have kept with books for the challenges.

As for what I read in March ~

March Reading Log 2015 ~ ImzadiRose

Color Coded Ratings

1 ★  1.5 ★  2 ★  2.5 ★<---Bad  3 ★ Great--->3.5 ★ 4 ★ 4.5 ★ 5 ★

Good

01 ~ Callsign: King Book 2 (Chess Team 03.4) by Jeremy Robinson

Completed 3/1

3 of 5 stars

Back to King for the 2^nd of his 3 books in this novella set.  This one he teamed up with a friend and they went to investigate some crazy things happening in Arizona.  This one was pretty enjoyable with some underworld creatures they encountered.  King was also hunted by an assassin so it was crazy all around with King being chased and the creatures loose.

02 ~ Callsign: Bishop (Chess Team 03.5) by Jeremy Robinson

Completed 3/2

3 of 5 stars

Bishop is the team member that I felt like we haven’t seen much from.  He’s very quiet and keeps to himself, even when in the team, so I looked forward to his story.  Unfortunately it was my least favorite of all the books so far, from novellas to the novels.  I think it’s because it was really rushed.  Even as a novella, it was super short and really predictable.  It definitely was disappointing.

03 ~ The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

Completed 3/5

2 of 5 stars

            I read this for the Book Club Feb swap and I was very disappointed.  The concept was interesting, the characters were good, it’s just that there was WAY too much going on.  The book was long and covered about 2 weeks of the main character’s life, but there was letters and a binder that was a few months of her life from before.  Then there was the story of who was trying to kill her, the bad guys plus her every day stuff.  It was just way too much in one book. 

04 ~ The Martian by Andy Weir

Completed 3/7

5 of 5 stars

            I LOVED THIS BOOK!!  I finally decided to give it a try and I’m so glad that I finally did.  I started it on audio around 11pm and I could NOT turn it off.  I ended up staying up all night to listen to it.  I finished it up around 6:30am.  The Martian is about Mark Watney who gets stranded on Mars.  I didn’t have any expectations going in, as I didn’t know anything about it, and I just loved it so much.  I insisted my hubby read it and He’s reading it now.  J

05 ~ Callsign: Knight (Chess Team 03.6) by Jeremy Robinson

Completed 3/8

3 of 5 stars

            Knight’s tale was a good one.  He’s in China dealing with creature that is much like Hydra, with regenerating capabilities.  He meets back up with Anna Beck, who we have met before, and they along with some soldiers are in an abandoned city fighting the creature.  He also comes across some children that he is looking out for.  It was an enjoyable book.

06 ~ Island 731 (Kaiju 01) by Jeremy Robinson

Completed 3/10

2 of 5 stars

            I decided to read this because the narrator was the one who narrated The Martian and I thought he was fantastic.  Island 731 wasn’t very enjoyable for me though.  In it, Mark and a boatload of others end up on an old WWII Island that was used for crazy experimentations on animals and humans.  It was  a little disturbing at times so I just didn’t like it as much as I wanted to.

07 ~ Scripted by Maya Rock

Completed 3/11

2 of 5 stars

            I read this for a swap that needed a spring looking cover.   It felt short in every way.  It was about a group of teens who lived out their lives on reality tv.  They know they are characters and behave as such.  They must act in certain ways and say certain things. The main character Nettie is ok, though she’s pretty spinless until the end.  Her best friend Mia pretty much ruined the book for me, she was such a bitch.  It could have been a lot better with better characters and more of a developed world.

08 ~ Callsign: Deep Blue (Chess Team 03.7) by Jeremy Robinson

Completed 3/12

3 of 5 stars

            In this one, Deep Blue is trapped in the Manifold lab in NH when mercenaries come in to try to steal some of the technology.  A lot of deaths in this one.  I mean there’s a lot anyways, but this one had a lot of the good guys dying too.  It was good overall, since they were trapped within a mountain with only 3 locations that they were fighting to keep control of, from the mercs and from the creatures that started to take over.

09 ~ Salt & Stone (Fire & Flood 02) by Victoria Scott

Completed 3/13

4 of 5 stars

            The next book in the series, this book is about Tella and a bunch of other people who are competing for a cure for a loved one.  They have already been in the desert and in the jungle in the 1^st book.  In this one they are braving the ocean and the mountains.  Tella grows a pair in this book, standing up for herself a bit more than she did the first book.  It has good and bad outcomes.  It was definitely a good follow up and I really hope there’s another one to tell us what comes next.

10 ~ The Impossible Race (Cragbridge Hall 03) by Chad Morris

Completed 3/13

5 of 5 stars

            I love this series so much!  In this one Abby and Derick are back trying to save the world again.  In a message they receive from the future, they are told if they don’t change the future Derick will die.  They have to compete in a school wide race of few different things going on, all while trying to figure out who is trying to change everything.  I love the series, the characters, the story, everything about it.  I can’t wait for the next book!

11 ~ Callsign: King Book 3 (Chess Team 03.8) by Jeremy Robinson

Completed 3/14

3 of 5 stars

            Back with King for the final book in the novella set.  In this one, King is sent to France to stop the guy who has been acting as Brainstorm, a supposed computer that’s setting out to rule the world.  In this one, Brainstorm teamed up with a hacker to create a super computer, but the hacker had other plans and unleashes a black hole in the Louvre.  Deep Blue had sent King’s girlfriend and daughter to Paris to surprise him after his mission was over, so they are caught in the middle of the mess.  It was a good conclusion to the novella books and I can’t wait for the team to be back together in the next book, though by the description, it’s going to be an effort for that to happen.

12 ~ Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Completed 3/15

1 of 5 stars

            I hated this book for one reason and one reason only.  This book was a book scavenger hunt, like geocaching but with books and puzzles.  It sounded just like my kind of book and I was really really looking forward to it.  It was right up my alley.  Unfortunately “Steve” ruined my opinion of this book, completely.  When Steve was first mentioned, I thought it was a joke.  It was not.  According to my Kindle, Steve was mentioned 35 times in the book.  Who is Steve and why did he bother me so much?  Steve is a COWLICK!?!?  WTF?  I’m serious and it was lame.  L

13 ~ Tether (Many-Worlds 02) by Anna Jarzab

Completed 3/16

4 of 5 stars

            In this follow-up to Tandem, Sasha returns to Aurora for Thomas and finds Selene, another analog of hers and Juliana.  Selene is more powerful than Sasha or Juliana and she’s been communicating so much with Sasha, she sometimes doesn’t know the difference between herself and Selene.  It was another enjoyable story that left me wanting to know how it all will end.  Thomas was a bit of a jerk in this one, but he redeemed himself by the end.

14 ~ The Queen (The Selection 00.4) by Kiera Cass

Completed 3/19

3 of 5 stars

            This is the Queen’s story, set before the first book.  It was enjoyable.  It made Clarkson seem more likable and personable, rather than the jerk he is in the later books.  It was an enjoyable short story.

15 ~ Ragnarok (Chess Team 04) by Jeremy Robinson

Completed 3/20

4 of 5 stars

            The next novel in the series, the team is still all split up across the globe and they are all battling the same forces.  It was one of my favorites so far.  I enjoyed the story and how they were all spread out but still fighting the same thing.  It was good when they finally all got together at the end and I was thrown for a surprise, which is rare for me in books.

16 ~ Broken Symmetry by Dan Rix

Completed 3/21

2.5 of 5 stars

            Blaire is able to walk through mirrors and become her reflection.  In the mirrored world, she can do anything that she wants without any kind of consequences to herself in the real world.  It was an ok book.  It was enjoyable but got really really confusing at the end, and that’s saying something for me because I can usually follow crazy stuff.  It was enjoyable.

17 ~ Qualify (Atlantis Grail 01) by Vera Nazarian

Completed 3/21

5 of 5 stars

            In Qualify, an asteroid is hurling towards earth and the Atlantian race, who long left the planet, come back and offer to help some of the population escape.  They do this by offering a competition and only those who compete and quality will be taken off earth.  It was a really enjoyable and different book.  The characters, for the most part, were fantastic and the story was engaging.  I can’t wait for more!

18 ~ NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson

Completed 3/22

3 of 5 stars

            Zach and Kylie are detectives who solve crimes dealing with NYs elite and the rich.  In this one, the son of a businessman is kidnapped but he doesn’t tell anyone about it, so the cops are unable to find out what is really going on.  It was an ok story, a bit slow and dull but the characters are overall good, though Zach was a bit of an idiot.

19 ~ The Calling (Endgame 01) by James Frey

Completed 3/23

1 of 5 stars

            I hated this book and skimmed most of the last part of it.  It was about some race to save humanity and it just never got going for me.  I didn’t like the characters, I didn’t like the story.  It was so dull and slow moving and I can’t even remember much about it at all, except for it’s repetitiveness, which I REALLY really hated, it would repeat words and sentences over and over.  It was annoying!

20 ~ The Game (Game is Life 01) by Terry Schott

Completed 3/23

5 of 5 stars

            If you have any kind of interest in reading about virtual reality (like Ready Player One) than this book is a must read.  I can’t even talk about it, without giving things away but it is fantastic.  It’s about what if one persons game play in virtual reality could change everything.  REALLY enjoyable!

21 ~ Digital Heretic (Game is Life 02) by Terry Schott

Completed 3/23

4 of 5 stars

            The 2^nd in the series, and I didn’t like it QUITE as much as the first, but it was still really enjoyable.  In this one, it focused more on Danielle, instead of Zack from the first one, but it was about everything that was going on and kept the story moving well.  Such a good and engaging story!

22 ~ Off to be the Wizard (Magic 01) by Scott Meyer

Completed 3/24

3 of 5 stars

            This book bored me for the most part, but it was so weird, I had to give it a good rating.  In it, Martin discovers a file that can change things in his life, such as his height or giving him unlimited money.  When he gets chased, he escapes to the middle ages and hangs out there as a wizard.  It was definitely different and weird.  It had the potential to be really good but was mainly just dorky and goofy but wasn’t horrible.

23 ~ Double Digit (A Girl Named Digit 02) by Annabel Monaghan

Completed 3/24

2 of 5 stars

            I loved the first book in this series, and this one just fell flat.  Digit was more whiney and girlie in this one, which I didn’t enjoy, and John was an idiot at times too.  The story just didn’t flow well for me in this one, it was even more off the wall and bizarre than the first.  It seemed more childish to me than the first one did it just wasn’t good. 

24 ~ Running Blind (One Eyed Jacks 03) by Cindy Gerard

Completed 3/24

4 of 5 stars

            I’ve been reading Gerard for years and this is the newest in her newest series.  It was yet another great story with great characters.  The team is targeted by a sniper and one of their own is wounded, so the search is on for the sniper.  Sparks fly between two of the members, as is the way with these books, as they work together.  Predictable but enjoyable.

25 ~ The Canidates (Delcroix Academy 01) by Inara Scott

Completed 3/25

2.5 of 5 stars

            This book had to do with a school that had students who had abilities such as being able to move objects or control the environment, but the abilities were hidden and the book was less about that, and more about the romances going on between the main character and the two boys she liked.  I would have liked this book a lot more if it had been about the abilities and not about the romance.  It was still ok, though I didn’t like the one boy at all.

26 ~ Interlude – Brandon (Game is Life 03) by Terry Schott

Completed 3/25

4.5 of 5 stars

            In this one, we get more of a history of what we were reading in the first two books.  It answers a lot of questions but opens tons and tons more.  I had correctly assumed one thing, but it was more than that, and bigger than that, so I was also confused by a ton of stuff.  It was fantastic because so much is going on and it’s huge and crazy!!

27 ~ Breaking Creed (Ryder Creed 01) by Alex Kava

Completed 3/26

2 of 5 stars

            I’ve been reading Kava for years but I’ve been getting bored with the Maggie O’Dell character of the other books.  In this one, it’s a new main character and I did like him, but Maggie was still a part of the book.  It was a pretty dull story and just never really got going for me.  Dunno if I’d read more.  They are easy and quick to read, so that’s something.

28 ~ The Marked (Delcroix Academy 02) by Inara Scott

Completed 3/26

2 of 5 stars

            In this one, Dancia learns more about the school and everyone’s abilities but it just falls short.  It’s all about her feelings and the boys rather than the powers and the bad stuff that is happening.  It was all about the battles and the conflict, it would have been a much better story, and I would have really enjoyed it.  Way too girlie for me.

 

29 ~ I am Spock by Leonard Nimoy

Completed 3/26

4 of 5 stars

            I read very few autobiographies and wanted to try this after Nimoy passed.  It was a good audiobook read by him, which made it more enjoyable for me.  It was stories about Star Trek and other stuff he did in Hollywood.  It was short and enjoyable.  I was glad I listened to it.

30 ~ Virtual Prophet (Game is Life 04) by Terry Schott

Completed 3/27

4 of 5 stars

            There was soooooooo much going on in this book, it was all craziness.  I didn’t know what was going on half of the time, but neither did the main characters, so it was really good.  This series is great for fans of virtual reality, it’s so crazy with so much going on and great characters.  It’s so good, I can’t wait to get my hands on the next one.

31 ~ The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie

Completed 3/28

4 of 5 stars

            This book tried REALLY REALLY hard to be The Night Circus.  It wasn’t, by a long shot, but in it’s own way, it was really cute.  Daniel comes across a shop and finds out that it’s a magical shop that is full of wonders and for the night people can come in and experience it all, but when they leave in the morning they have forgotten all about it.  It paralleled EVERYTHING from The Night Circus (which is my all time favorite book) so I found it sad and comical that it didn’t try to be it’s own thing.  But it was cute with cute characters.  It didn’t hold the same amount of magic that The Night Circus does.

32 ~ The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth Jones

Completed 3/28

1.5 of 5 stars

            This was a lame middle grade book.  I’m sure middle grade kids might like it, but I read a lot of middle grade books because I find them cute and fun and this one was just dull.  It was about 2 siblings who spend their whole lives trying to kill each other.  It just was repetitive, even after they called a truce but things kept happening anyways.  It was just dull and boring.

33 ~ The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin

Completed 3/28

1.5 of 5 stars

            Another middle grade book that fell short for me.  I like books with puzzles in it (The Inventor’s Secret was a perfect example and was AMAZING) but this one seemed like a book just for the sake of having puzzles.  There was no real story to it, it was just a series of puzzles put into the book.  I’m sure kids would like it and find the puzzles enjoyable.  It was dull to me.

34 ~ Shock Point by April Henry

Completed 3/29

4 of 5 stars

            In this one, Cassie is shipped off to a “school” in Mexico after she found some damaging information about her stepfather and tries to go to the authorities about it.  The school is supposedly for delinquent teens but is more of a place of torture.  The book was really short but Cassie was a good character and the story was engaging.  Would have liked it to have been longer and to have read more of what was going on there, but it was good for a short quick read.

35 ~ Brilliance (Brilliance 01) by Marcus Sakey

Completed 3/29

4 of 5 stars

            It took me a while to get into this one, but I ended up loving the last quarter of the book or so.  It is about a world where some of the population are “brilliants”, genius type people who have special abilities such as being a human lie detector or detecting patterns.  The main character Nick was likable and the story was engaging once it got going.  Definitely really liked the last half better than the first half.

36 ~ Ultraviolet Catastrophe by Jamie Grey

Completed 3/29

1.5 of 5 stars

            This book sucked.  Lexie discovers that her parents have been lying to her her whole life and keeping her IQ manageable so that she didn’t know that she was super smart.  But when she finds out and finds out there are people after her, she’s sent to a school for the gifted that her father works at.  The characters fell flat, the story never really got going at all.  I wasn’t invested in it at all.

37 ~ Inherit Midnight by Kate Kae Myers

Completed 3/30

4 of 5 stars

            This was quite enjoyable!  Avery is the black sheep of her family and is shipped to a school where she breaks out but when she does, a boy had been sent to collect her.  Her grandmother has set up a challenge for Avery and her family to compete in, to find out who will inherit the family business and fortune.  The characters were good, the challenges were enjoyable to follow.  The story was a good one and I enjoyed the book a ton.  It’s a shame that it’s a standalone, I would have enjoyed hearing what came next for Avery.

What I posted in March

Books I Reviewed in March ~

• ARC Review ~ Knight Rider Volume 1 ~ 1 star
• ARC Review ~ Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman ~ 1 star DNF
• TBR List Review ~ The Game by Terry Schott ~ 5 stars

Get to know Me ~

• Get to Know You ~ Favorite Animals
• Get to Know You ~ Favorite TV Shows
• Tag Questions ~ Just Because

Other bits of Randomness ~

• Top Ten Tuesday ~ Favorite Books of Past 3 Years
• Ready Play Blog ~ Multi-Player or Single Player
• Audiobook Challenge ~ 1st Quarter Update
• Challenges Update ~ Bookish Bingo Wrap-Up

Bookish Bingo ~ Ready for Spring

Bookish Bingo is hosted by Great Imaginations.

Time for a new Bookish Bingo! I see a LOT on this board I won't be getting to. I don't read Classics, or WWII stuff, so I'm sure my board won't be as full as it has been in the past installments, but I'll be doing my best! :)