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🕷️ The Black Widow Reading Challenge

Marry well. Outlive them. Repeat.

The Black Widow is a reading challenge about accumulation, charm, ambition, and suspiciously good luck. Build your fortune one spouse at a time, survive whatever fate the game throws at you, and see whether you can accumulate §1,000,000 before you finally retire.

There are no time limits. Read at your own pace. Use any format. And remember: in this challenge, sometimes love is real... and sometimes the inheritance is better.

Links:
🤑 THE SIMOLEON SYSTEM
💋 SPOUSES (beginning)
☠️ DEATH ROULETTE
🎲 RANDOM EVENTS

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Book: Flight of Magpies
Author: K.J. Charles
Date Read: 8/26

Category: 💋 Find a Spouse
Task: Read a book with the word GOLD in the title, subtitle, or text.

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 1000
Bonus From your TBR 5000
Bonus Book you've been putting off 5000
Bonus Final book in a series 10000

Total: 26000

Current Bank: 26000

Book: The Hero of Ages
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Date Read: 8/29

Category: 💰 Secure the Bag
Task: Read a book with a color, number, or currency word in the title

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 1000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000
Bonus Backlist title (not new release) 5000
Bonus Reread 7500
Bonus Owned for 5+ years 10000
Bonus Award-winning title 10000
Bonus 400+ pages 7500
Bonus Outside your usual genre 7500

Total: 63500

Current Bank: 89500

Note: I own the hardback, I borrowed (and read) the audiobook, which is how I justify the borrowed and the owned for 5+ years.

Book: The Baker and the Kraken
Author: Ellie Ash
Date Read: 9/1

Category: ☠️ Death Roulette
Task: 🪦 Death by Old Age:Read a book featuring an elderly protagonist or significant aging, generational change, or the passage of time.

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 1000
Bonus From your TBR 5000
Bonus 5-star read 100

Total: 26000

Current Bank: 115500

Book: Mistletoe and Mishigas
Author: MA Wardell
Date Read: 9/2

Category: 🎲 Random Event
Task: 💍 Prenup: Read a book featuring a contract, agreement, bargain, or deal.

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 15000
Bonus Book you've been putting off 5000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000
Bonus Award-winning title 10000

Total: 45000

Current Bank: 160500

Book: Dragon AU
Author: AM Rose
Date Read: 9/5

Category: 💋 Find a Spouse
Task: Read a book with the word CLIMB or CLIMBING in the text.

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 2000
Bonus New-to-you author 5000
Bonus From your TBR 5000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000
Bonus 5-star read 10000

Total: 37000

Current Bank: 197500

Book: Mack's Perfectly Ghastly Homecoming
Author: AJ Sherwood
Date Read: 9/6

Category: 💍 Get Married
Task: Read a book published in the last 5 years

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 2000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000
Bonus Reread 7500
Bonus Backlist title (not new release) 5000
Bonus 5-star read 10000

Total: 39500

Current Bank: 237000

Book: I Buried a Witch
Author: Josh Lanyon
Date Read: 9/7

Category: ☠️ Death Roulette
Task: 💔 Death by Broken Heart: Read a book involving betrayal, heartbreak, divorce, or the end of a relationship.

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 2000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000

Total: 17000

Current Bank: 254000

Book: He's to Die For
Author: Erin Dunn
Date Read: 9/9

Category: 🎲 Random Event
Task: 👀 The Police Are Asking Questions: Read an MPG Crime, True Crime, or Noir novel.

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 17500
Bonus New-to-you author 5000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000
Bonus Debut novel 7500
Bonus Award-winning title 10000

Total: 55000

Current Bank: 309000

Book: Haunted
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Date Read: 9/15

Category: 💋 Find a Spouse
Task: Read a book with the word WIDOW or WIDOWED in the text.

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 4000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000
Bonus Backlist title (not new release) 5000
Bonus Outside your usual genre 7500
Bonus Reread 7500
Bonus 5-star read 10000
Bonus Owned for 5+ years 10000
Bonus 400+ pages 7500

Total: 66500

Current Bank: 375500

Book: Cold as Hell
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Date Read: 9/22

Category: 💰 Secure the Bag
Task: Read an MPG Mystery, Thriller, or Suspense novel

Simoleons: Base 5000
Task 4000
Bonus Library book / borrowed 5000
Bonus Backlist title (not new release) 5000
Bonus Outside your usual genre 7500
Bonus Award-winning title 10000

Total: 41500

Current Bank: 417000