Maryse's Book Blog WolfPack/Bridesmaids Meeting Place discussion

Reserved for our February Grand List - Jan's Pick Sci-Fi/PNR

Anna: This Side of the Grave byJeaniene Frost

Bev: Dark Horse by Michelle Diener

Ela: Burned by Karen Marie Moning

Fabi: A Perfect Machine by Brett Savory

Grey: The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith

Jan: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Leslie: Love and Relativity by Rachael Wade

Lisa: Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

R.C.: Blood Shadows by Tessa Dawn

Robin: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Tessa: Kiss of Pride by Sandra Hill

My February read is.....dat dat dat dat dah.............

Wolfsong and I can't WAIT!!

yeah Lisa!

I'm changing my February PNR to Burned, so I need a new August book. Burned may change to Feversong OR it may stay at the Chicago Vampire series...LOL

I'm doing The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Oh good Ela - lots of choices - lol

Thanks Robin.

Which Burned Ela? P.C. Cast, or Hopkins or?

The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith

or...Wolfsong.. shit, IDK

Fabi wrote: "Which Burned Ela? P.C. Cast, or Hopkins or?"

Moning.... Yep I'm that behind in the series! Iced just really screwed me over.

Maybe I should just screw it and join Robin? But damn a whole series???

Lol, Grey! I don't know either! Hell, I've barely picked out my January book, but I think I'm reading Jezebel after I finish Feversong--squee!!

Fabi--I think she means Moning 'Burned'. Or that's the idea I got.

My Currently reading list pick one:

Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires, #2)
by Chloe Neill
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Burned (Fever, #7)
by Karen Marie Moning
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Passion Unleashed (Demonica #3)
by Larissa Ione
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Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy, #2)
by Deborah Harkness
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Undead and Unstable (Undead, #11)
by MaryJanice Davidson

ah, ok. I thought that might the one. It didn't pop up when I searched for the book link. I'll look again.

I might dive into Raven Boys in February too. Just for the hell of it. I don't think it's on my tbr but I love the cover and the title. I haven't read the blurb.

I love Jan for picking this theme for Feb. I'll probably read several of these before the month is up.

Grey do you have both on your tbr? Try a few pages of each to see which writing grabs you most.

me too Fabi! maybe I will read both TLHoG and Wolfsong.. but you guys said that TLHoG is a monster of a book, right?

4.05 · Rating Details · 137,737 Ratings for Raven Boys - holy crap! I'm reading this one

Yup Grey, TLHoG is over 1,000 pages

WS is over 400 so not a short one either.

The Raven group - are you committing yourselves to 4 books???

I'm not sure yet, but I think I'm going to read Blood Shadows (Blood Curse, #4) by Tessa Dawn. I started the series years ago, and I guess when this one came out, I had joined the 'new adult craze', so I never read it.

I'm reading a book from the Vampire Queen's Servant series by Joey Hill right now, and I didn't realize how much I missed my sexy vamps!

Ela wrote: "The Raven group - are you committing yourselves to 4 books???"

Not necessarily, but I'm sure that's what's going to happen.

Alright, I added it R.C. It can be easily changed later if you change your mind.

Thanks, Fabi! I have so many PnR series that I need to read the 'next one' in that I very well could change my mind.

I need to read the newest Dark Hunter, Immortals After Dark and Lords of the Underworld. And I also need to get caught up on the Fae Chronicles. I am just stuck in Seducing Destiny--have tried to read it 3 times, but I just can't get through it for some reason.

I never made it to Seducing Destiny. Read the first three and then ... idk, never went back to it. I think it's sitting in my tbr.

Can I just say? you don't have to read Seducing Destiny to read Playing with Monsters. Playing with Monsters is EPIC!!! Soooo amazing! It is actually my TOP book of 2016!

Fabi put me down for TLHoG, but I think I'll probably read both of them. I'm a pretty fast reader... but still 1000 pages will probably take me a bit LOL! Although I do have a midwinter break in the middle of February.

Grey wrote: "Can I just say? you don't have to read Seducing Destiny to read Playing with Monsters. Playing with Monsters is EPIC!!! Soooo amazing! It is actually my
TOP
book of 2016!"

woah! need to get that one up to the top of my tbr

So far I've read 4 of ya'lls picks. Several more on my tbr. :-) This will probably be only category I have so much in common with everyone.

Thank you, Grey! You're the reason I'm looking so forward to Playing with Monsters. For some reason, I got in my head that PWM was Ristan's story, but now I see it's Lucian's (whoever that is).

Oh, and I see that A Demon's Dark Embrace (The Elite Guards, #1) is Ristan's story. So there are TWO spinoffs from the Fae Chronicles?

I see Lucien shows up at the very end of SD (92%), and I don't remember if he's been in the series at all prior to that?? I just don't want to miss anything.

These all sound so gooooood. Grey, read Gann. It's epic!!! OK, Wolfsong is pretty great too. But Gann......yes yes yes

I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!! SO I WENT BACK AND STARTED BURNED FROM START AND AM SO LOST! WHY IS THE BEGINING AS IF BARRONS IS MEETING MAC FOR THE FIRST TIME????? AM I READING THE RIGHT BOOK??????? I'M SO CONFUSED!

Ela--let me look. I downloaded it to my kindle again to have it handy jic I needed to look something up. Just a sec...

Ela--I think that's just a reminder of the scene where Barrons and Mac first met. Because then, the prologue is AFTER that, and it's an excerpt featuring the Unseelie King and Queen, the king's concubine, Cruce, and the Song of Making. Again, I think this is just a reminder. Then chapter 1 begins with the present and Dani.

My guess is that there is just SO much info in these books that KMM is trying to alleviate as much confusion as possible!

And don't forget to check the glossary in the back. I read the entire thing before every book to help refresh my memory of everything.

Gotcha! After I posted here I went and saw there was that glossary. Yes! There is just so much information.

I just can't get into Burned (view spoiler)[what turned me off is that Mac killed humans, yes the book took control but it STILL HAPPENEDED and I DON'T LIKE THIS AT ALL (hide spoiler)]

Ela, it is the book that shall not be named for a reason.
Didnt she change the beginning, shed written like a short then added it to the book?

Anyway, there is one scene in that book that makes me so angry. Grr. I dont know what percentage it is at, but no one else seemed to comment on it. Its making me tense just thinking of it again, lol.

Oh great! Another book THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED! GRRRRRRR!!!!! And yes, she added some crazy beginning from like book 4, a scene actually....

Did you read the rest of the series bev????

No, I haven't.

I don't know where it at but scene that angered me is, (view spoiler)[ one of the nine, Lore? Is in the office and a woman fae is compelled to have sex against his will. Mac just stands there watching after shed been raped the same way. Just no, you know? (hide spoiler)]

Totally agreed! I can still remember Mac's experience and shudder!!!!!!!!

Mine is Kiss of Pride by Sandra Hill.

Is it February yet? I just went and purchased Wolfsong. It was on my TBR, but I didn't yet own it. So I'm ready and just wait for the calendar to turn to February!!!

Not sure I want to continue with Burn as my February PNR read but then again I really want to finish that series and either love it or bitch with the rest of the disappointed readers.

I lost interest in that series a while ago, although I did flove the first few books. It really went off the boil and I don't think I'm gonna waste my time with Burned. I peeped at your spoiler, and just, no.

Jan130 wrote: "I lost interest in that series a while ago, although I did flove the first few books. It really went off the boil and I don't think I'm gonna waste my time with Burned. I peeped at your spoiler, an..."

Boooooooo

Ela, what book did you just rec to me?

Bev, Don't ask!!!

Lol.
Is she just sending it to everyone?

Ela, it sounds disgusting.
Thats animal abuse. Eww.

I second that eeeewwwwwwww.

Welp, it's officially February and I'm gearing up to start my massively thick sci-fi book Seveneves. I've floved other books by Neal Stephenson but for some reason I've put this one off again and again. At the moment I'm reading quite a long CR recced by Maryse, Juniper Smoke. I'd like to finish that first. Then I'll start Seveneves! I'm leaving for a holiday at the beach in a few days (hey, it's mid summer here) so I'll be able to sit and enjoy the view and read to my heart's content :)

So far this tbr challenge is really good for me. Exaltation of Larks ended up being one of my best January reads, and without the challenge I would probably just have kept putting it off. When is everyone else starting their Feb read? Has anyone changed their mind about what they're going to knock off their tbr this month?