SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

Team #6
Captain: Stephanie

Members:
Angie Elle
Stephanie
Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)

Just a Hop, Skip & Click Away
Happy Reading!

Shelf Announcements ~ Check for the latest shelf announcement & review the requirements for each shelf
Captain's Log ~ Share team shelf stats prior to requesting a stamp
Stamp Me! ~ Request a stamp for your bingo card
Discussions ~ Throughout the game, head here to chat with other players & shelf chant til your heart's content
Bingo Rules ~ Rules of the game
Free Space Rules ~ Where to look when pickin' your free space book
Bingo FAQ ~ Don't hesitate! If you have a question, let us know.

Hiya, Team Caps! Thanks for volunteering to guide your team through a round of BookShelf Bingo!

Your job, should you choose to accept it, will require a few things:
1 ~ Be our go-to person should we have any questions about your team
2 ~ Organize your teammate's weekly reads for each shelf/category so that the BSB Ninjas can quickly and easily verify and approve your stamp request(s)
2a ~ Create a master list in a post (preferably on the first page of your team's thread) and update it weekly or as often as necessary
2b ~ Post your team's stats on the Captain's Log prior to requesting a stamp
3 ~ Encourage and motivate your team (you may also ask to borrow Judithe's whip whenever necessary)
4 ~ Post regularly to ensure your team is communicating and on track each week
4a ~ Send them a PM and friendly poke if they haven't posted at least once a week, noted their book choice, and/or appear to have dropped out of webspace
5 ~ Send us a PM (Steph, Sandra or Judithe) should you need us for any reason throughout the game

Link to print a copy of your bingo card: https://imgur.com/6jF6InL

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Free Space ~ Finished ~ 3/3 Complete ~ Stamp Complete

Debbie - Play of Passion by Nalini Singh Date Finished: 05/03/23 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review
Angie - Murder's a Witch by Danielle Garrett Date Finished: 05/11/23 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review
Stephanie - Magic Forged by K.M. Shea Date Finished: 05/10/23 - Rating: ★★★★★ Review


Shelf #1 ~ Detective: Finished ~ 3/3 Complete ~ Stamp Complete

Debbie - Dread and Buried by Angie Fox Date Finished: 04/27/23 - Rating: ★★★½☆ Review
Angie - A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones Date Finished: 5/4/23 - Rating: ★★★½☆ Review
Stephanie - Promise the Moon by Hailey Edwards Date Finished: 4/30/2023 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review


Shelf #2 ~04 May-published in May ~ Finished~ 3/3 Complete Stamp Complete

Debbie -Dial W For Witch By Amanda M. Lee Date Finished: 05/05/23 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review
Angie - Witches in the Kitchen By Danielle Garrett Date Finished: 05/10/23 - Rating: ★★★★★ Review
Stephanie - Packless By Simone Leigh Martin Date Finished: 05/05/2023 - Rating: ★★★★★ Review


Shelf #3 ~ Cozy Mystery: Finished ~ 3/3 Complete ~ Stamp Complete

Debbie -Fat Cat At Large By Janet Cantrell Date Finished: 05/12/23 - Rating: ★★★½☆ Review
Angie - Witch Slapped By Danielle Garrett Date Finished: 05/17/23 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review
Stephanie - Guardians of the Pack By Heather G. Harris Date Finished: 05/15/23 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review


Shelf #4 ~ Fae : Un-Finished ~ 3/3 Complete ~ Stamp Complete

Debbie - Casting Spells By Barbara Bretton Date Finished: 05/19/23 - Rating:★★★☆☆ Review
Angie - The King's Captive By K.M. Shea Date Finished: 5/24/23 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review
Stephanie - Court of Shadows By C.N. Crawford Date Finished: 05/20/23 - Rating: ★★★★☆ Review


Shelf #5 ~ Beware of Bears : Un-Finished ~ 2/3 Complete ~ Not Stamped

Debbie -Magical Midlife Meeting By K.F. Breene Date Finished: 05-26-23 - Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review
Angie - The Secret Gift By Bethany Atazadeh Date Finished: 05/30/23 - Rating: ★★★1/2 Review
Stephanie - The Culling Trials By K.F. Breene Date Finished: 05/27/23 - Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review


Shelf #6 ~ Magical Realism : Un-Finished ~ 0/3 Complete ~ Not Stamped

Debbie - Spinning Silver By Naomi Novik Date Finished: Rating:
Angie - Date Finished: Rating:
Stephanie - Vicious By V.E. Schwab Date Finished: Rating:

Hi! Just checking in and excited to play.

I've played before, no burning desire to be captain but could do it, my timezone is U S. Pacific Standard, no brilliant ideas about team name.

ETA: my free space book will be Play of Passion from sos best of paranormal list.

Excited to join this round of BINGO. It's been years since I played my first game. :)

I would prefer not to be captain.

Note to self:

shelf name, book title, date read, 1-5★ rating, and review

Found a list of team name suggestions at
https://www.elitedaily.com/lifestyle/... if any sound good or if anyone has another suggestion.

"Pop, Six, Squish" struck me as funny for some reason. No meaning to me or to books. Liked "VI" and "The Hexa-Squad." Disliked "Six Feet Under."

So assuming I understand the Free Space correctly, I'm reading The Beyond by Chloe Neill. I just added it to the SOS Best of UF Shelf.

I am open to all of the names you liked. I also like:

Three of a Kind
Triple Play
Triple Threats

Unless there are more suggestions, my favorites are now "Triple Play" "VI" and "Pop, Six, Squish."

Unless I did time zones wrong, I think there may be a shelf announcement within the hour. I'm not good with time zones.

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "Unless there are more suggestions, my favorites are now "Triple Play" "VI" and "Pop, Six, Squish."

Unless I did time zones wrong, I think there may be a shelf announcement within the hour. I'm not..."

Same! But I'm in the time zone and can confirm your time frame. LOL

Shelf was called, Detective.

Dread and Buried, #12 in Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries, is my read for "Detective" shelf. The hero plus side characters are police officers. Published just in time for BINGO.

The first book in series, Southern Spirits is currently free and would also fit the shelf (and likely other upcoming shelves).

I am going to read for this one, book 2 in the Sunshine Vicram series.

Angie Elle wrote: "I am going to read for this one, book 2 in the Sunshine Vicram series."

I love that series!

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "Angie Elle wrote: "I am going to read for this one, book 2 in the Sunshine Vicram series."

I love that series!"

I really enjoyed the first book. I like Jones' humor. I have the first Southern Spirits book because I read a short story from the series a few years ago. I liked it, but I'm trying to hit my backlist reads hard and didn't add that series to my goals list this year. SV will be easy to cross off, because it's only two more books.

Shelf #1 ~27 April: Detective
Book- Promise the Moon
By- Hailey Edwards )
Pages- 263, Kindle Edition
How It Fits: (shelved 1 time as paranormal-detectives)

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "Unless there are more suggestions, my favorites are now "Triple Play" "VI" and "Pop, Six, Squish."

Unless I did time zones wrong, I think there may be a shelf announcement within the hour. I'm not..."
I like "VI" and "Pop, Six, Squish."

@Stephanie, do you want to be captain?

I finished my book so will write it up later.

um, what all do I need to do to be captain? I've not yet been a captain.

Stephanie, its all listed in Msg 3 of your team thread, so scroll up :)

OK, that sounds good! thank you!

Shelf #1 ~27 April: Detective
DIRECT LINK(s) ~ a character who is a detective or police officer; series or title contains “Detective” -or- Paranormal Detective/Detective

Completion Post~
Shelf- Week 1: Detective
Book- Promise the Moon
Author- Hailey Edwards
How it fits- (shelved 1 time as paranormal-detectives)
Pages- 263, Kindle Edition
Date Finished- April 30, 2023
Rating- ★★★★

Review: This book is absolutely attention capturing! I'm not a lot for books that have detective like structure to them, but this book held my attention the entire time! The main character is very strong and holds her ground in many circumstances that a lot of these types of books do not in relationships! As someone with adhd, I tend to always jump ahead in books and know the end of books, which was not the case that was very refreshing! I highly recommend it it is worth your time spent reading!

Hey Debbie and Angie I hope your days are going amazing and I hope your reading is coming along awesomely as well!!! I have a favor I need to ask of you both... is there a way that y'all can use the set ups I have put below?
I have ADHD and it makes it easier for me if it is organized this way. I would greatly appreciate it!


Shelf #1 ~27 April: Detective
Book-
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Pages- 000, Kindle Edition
How It Fits:

Completion Post~
Shelf- Week 1: Detective
Book-
Author-
How it fits-
Pages- 000, Kindle Edition
Date Finished-
Rating-

Review:

Does that mean you want to be captain?

Yes ma'am!

Put you on the captain list for Steph to edit, Stephanie :)

I will be right up to the wire with my book, but I will finish tonight.

I am changing my Free Space book I realized after opening it I had DNF it and I tend to not pick those books back up.

Free space
Book- Magic Forged
By- K.M. Shea
Pages- 270, Kindle Edition
How It Fits: #3 A book off of the group's bookshelf Page 3

Angie Elle wrote: "I will be right up to the wire with my book, but I will finish tonight."

Okay sounds good! Hope it is a good read!

Stephanie wrote: "Angie Elle wrote: "I will be right up to the wire with my book, but I will finish tonight."

Okay sounds good! Hope it is a good read!"

It is good so far. I hope yours is, too! :)

Guess we also have a team name since that's showing in thread title?

Shelf #1 ~27 April: Detective
Book- Dread and Buried
By- Angie Fox
Pages- 320, Kindle Edition
How It Fits: A main character plus side characters are detectives.

Completion Post~
Shelf- Week 1: Detective
Book- Dread and Buried
By- Angie Fox
Pages- 320, Kindle Edition
How It Fits: A main character plus side characters are detectives.
Date Finished- 27 April
Rating- ★★★½☆

Review: As always for this paranormal cozy mystery series, a good book, fun read, with enough seriousness to add needed tension. It's #12 in the Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries. I enjoyed it but not my favorite in the series because it didn't really seem to fit.

Leaving the small town setting without Lucy (pet skunk) and any familiar characters other than her love interest, sister and sister's love interest didn't work as well for me. Nor did the pirate ghosts and plot of hunting for pirate treasure -- which is partly just personal preference as I'm not into pirates or treasure hunts. Her sidekick ghost -- and former gangster -- Frankie barely made an appearance.

Just didn't fit rest of series. The MC's "voice" was the same but the other characters and plot were not. I think was an entry in the series intended to get MC over the hostility towards sister's beau who was her beau's partner -- or just because author wanted to write a pirate treasure hunt book. (view spoiler)[ MC likes the beau a bit better because he grudgingly acknowledges she may see ghosts but he's still an uptight douche. (hide spoiler)] I still think sister's beau is nasty to MC and she should not be too forgiving.

I may be influenced in saying that because of the author's note at the end talking about how into the treasure hunt and pirate stuff she was. But it didn't really fit for this series which had other books with trips away from their small town that I liked better.

I will still preorder the next in series; hopefully will have more of the gang and more of a familiar setting.

Shelf- Free Space
Book-Play of Passion
By- Nalini Singh
Pages- 352, eBook Edition
How It Fits: From SOS group's best of paranormal list

Completion Post~
Shelf- Free Space
Book-Play of Passion
Author- Nalini Singh
How it fits- From SOS group's best of paranormal list
Pages- 352, eBook Edition
Date Finished- 3 May
Rating- ★★★★☆

Review: Nine books into the Psy-Changeling series and still a favorite series. But not my favorite book in the series; lacked real suspense and had very little to move forward the overall arc of changes in Psy-Changeling council/net/Silence. Except for some cameos from characters in previous books, this one was mostly the romance between Indigo (righthand to alpha Hawke) and Drew (the pack's tracker and Riley's baby brother). A nice enough romance but a somewhat easy one. I liked both of them individually and as a couple but this was sort of a filler book to me.

I'm used to this series having edge of seat excitement and big reveals. A couple of might have been exciting bad guy attempts that were so immediately discovered it was unexciting and one new alliance (that should lead to future plot twists) among the Psy Councilors. Otherwise, it was a fairly predictable romance.

I saw that as well. Is that the name we want? I kinda like "The Hexa-Squad" better!

Completion Post~
Shelf- Week 1: Detective
Book- A Good Day for Chardonnay
Author-Darynda Jones
How it fits-Heroine is a former detective voted Sheriff of the new town she moves to.
Pages- 400, Kindle Edition
Date Finished-5/4/23
Rating-3.5 stars

Review: A Good Day for Chardonnay is the second book Darynda Jones' Sunshine Vicram series, so my review will be vague to avoid potential spoilers. The hi-jinx really took off in this book, and I enjoyed the plot. I like how we got some answers to questions that remained from the first book, and I do love Sunshine's friendship with Quincy. I also like her dynamic with long time crush (if that's the appropriate word for this age...LOL,) Levi Ravinder. Such a sexy name, too! But Sunshine's daughter, Auri, too away some from me fully enjoying this book. There were times she just went too far, and I thought there should be more consequences for the things she'd done. I am still enjoying the series, though, and will be reading the final installment.

Thank GOD for audio, or I might not have made the deadline. LOL

Stephanie wrote: "I saw that as well. Is that the name we want? I kinda like "The Hexa-Squad" better!"

I'm fine with whatever you both decide. :)

Shelf #2 ~04 May: May Day
Book- Dial W For Witch
By- Amanda M. Lee
Pages- 311, Kindle Unlimited Edition
How It Fits: published May 2, 2023

I was asking about team name and captain because didn't see the posts where we voted.

I'm happy to have Stephanie captain.

I'll go with "The Hexa-Squad" "Three Play" or "Pop, Six, Squish" -- whichever the two of you prefer.

ETA: I'm happy with our card, so far. May Day is a nice corner piece while Free Space and Detective line up.

Shelf #2 ~ 4 May: May Day
DIRECT LINK(s) ~ book released in May of any year; character, title or series name contains "May"; author first or last name begins with M or D

Shelf #2 ~04 May -- published in May
Book- Packless
By- Simone Leigh Martin
Pages- 226, Kindle Edition
How It Fits: Published May 14, 2021

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "I was asking about team name and captain because didn't see the posts where we voted.

I'm happy to have Stephanie captain.

I'll go with "The Hexa-Squad" "Three Play" or "Pop, Six, Squish" -- whic..."

I like the first two names more I like "The Hexa-Squad" best! I'm good with being captain unless someone else wants to be one! Just know this is my first time being one :0 and I have kids so I might not be able to get to the computer before y'all! I also have no clue how to link reviews to the word review!

If you all prefer The Hexa-Squad, I can change it. Just let me know.

Stephanie said she prefers it, Angie will go with whatever & Debbie is on the fence :)

I'll go for Hexa-Squad.

Stephanie wrote: "...how to link reviews to the word review.."

I don't think that's required, you can just type something like "review is at http..." (right click or hold date/time of review post/comment to copy review link).

But if you want to do so, when making a comment click "(some html is ok)" at top right of comment box, then from the "link" bullet, copy from "< a" to "/ a>". Replace "my link text" with "review" and the in quotes link address "htt..." with link address of review.

For example, to link to my last review at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... , enter the below text minus the spaces except where there's an asterisk:

< a*h r ef=" htt ps://ww w.goodreads. com/topic/show/ 22500947-r23-team-6?comment=260632259#comment_260890117
" >review< / a >

Shelf #2 ~04 May -- published in May
Book- Witches in the Kitchen
By- Danielle Garrett
Pages- 306, Kindle Edition
How It Fits: Audio Publishes May 16, 2023