Challenge Overload (PNR and UF Edition) discussion

Yearly Series Challenge

Lords of the Underworld:
The Darkest Fire
The Darkest Night
The Darkest Kiss
The Darkest Pleasure
The Darkest Prison
The Darkest Whisper
Heart of Darkness
The Darkest Passion
The Darkest Lie
The Darkest Secret (2011)
The Darkest Surrender (2011)

Atlantis:
Heart of the Dragon
Jewel of Atlantis
The Nymph King
The Vampire's Bride
The Amazon's Curse

Shifters:
Stray
Rogue
Pride
Prey
Shift
Alpha

The Others:
Wolf at the Door
She's No Faerie Princess
The Demon You Know
Howl at the Moon
Walk on the Wild Side
One Bite With A Stranger
You're So Vein
Big Bad Wolf
Born To Be Wild

Women of the Otherworld:
Bitten
Stolen
Dime Store Magic
Industrial Magic
Haunted
Broken
No Humans Involved
Personal Demon
Living with the Dead
Frostbitten

Sookie Stackhouse
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
Dead and Gone
Dead in the Family

Clean Up

1. Beast by Donna Jo Napoli 1/3
2. Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder 1/4
3. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson 1/5
4. Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder 1/8
5. East by Edith Pattou 1/11
6. Immortal: Love Stories with Bite by P.C. Cast 1/12
7. The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry 1/18
8. Darklight by Lesley Livingston 1/24
9. Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George 1/26
10. Fire by Kristin Cashore 2/2
11. Evernight by Claudia Gray 2/5
12. Sea Change by Aimee Friedman 2/15

Done!

February Challenge

2 Red Covers
Evernight by Claudia Gray 2/5
Fire by Kristin Cashore 2/2

2 Pink Covers
She's No Faerie Princess by Christine Warren 2/20
Rogue by Rachel Vincent 3/13

4 Romance Books
1. The Nymph King by Gena Showalter 2/7
2. Sea Change by Aimee Friedman 2/15
3. The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter 2/14
4. Fallen by Lauren Kate 2/22

Done!

More Series

Anita Blake Series
Guilty Pleasures
The Laughing Corpse
Circus of the Damned
The Lunatic Cafe
Bloody Bones
The Killing Dance
Burnt Offerings
Blue Moon
Obsidian Butterfly
Narcissus in Chains
Cerulean Sins
Incubus Dreams
Micah
Danse Macabre
The Harlequin
Blood Noir
Skin Trade
Flirt
Bullet

Black Dagger Brotherhood
Dark Lover
Lover Eternal
Lover Awakened
Lover Revealed
Lover Unbound
Lover Enshrined
Lover Avenged
Lover Mine
The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

Morganville Vampires
Glass Houses
The Dead Girls' Dance
Midnight Alley
Feast of Fools
Lord of Misrule
Carpe Corpus
Fade Out
Kiss Of Death
Ghost Town

Blue Bloods
Blue Bloods
Masquerade
Revelations
The Van Alen Legacy
Misguided Angel
Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository

Love at Stake
How To Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Vamps and the City
Be Still My Vampire Heart
The Undead Next Door
All I Want for Christmas Is a Vampire
Secret Life of a Vampire
Forbidden Nights With a Vampire
The Vampire and the Virgin

Millennium Trilogy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

March Challenge

My Name: Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (Letter J) 3/25
Birthday: Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz (Published in May) 3/18
Favorite Color: Stargazer by Claudia Gray (Purple!) 3/9

Location: Glass Houses by Rachel Caine (Takes place in Texas) 3/12
Favorite Genre: The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine (Paranormal) 3/12
Favorite Movie: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Had to change this one cause I loved the movie) 3/8

Done!

April Challenge

April Fool’s Day: Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones 4/14
Find a Rainbow Day: Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine 4/8

Easter: Peach Blossom Pavilion by Mingmei Yip 5/5
No Housework Day: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley (read from noon to four) 4/10
World Health Day: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz (Dr. Pat) 6/26
First Library Opened: Be Still My Vampire Heart by Kerrelyn Sparks (borrowed from Beverly) 4/9
Titanic struck the iceberg: The King's Rose by Alisa M. Libby 4/6
Sherlock Homes B-Day: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 4/12
Tell a story day: The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf 4/19
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Done!

Everything Paranormal - 50 Paranormal Beings Challenge
May 1st through November 30th

Fae
1. Ballad: The Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater 8/9
2. Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr 5/26
3. Oracle of the Morrigan by Tiffany Trent 9/11
4. Queen of the Masquerade by Tiffany Trent 7/15
5. Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev 8/7

Werewolves
1. Maiden of the Wolf by Tiffany Trent 7/5
2. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 9/20
3. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris 7/19
4. One Eye Open by Karen Whiddon
5. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris 9/4

Vampires
1. Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine 5/6
2. Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine 6/13
3. Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine 6/14
4. Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz 6/26
5. How To Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks 7/7

Shifters
1. Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren
2. Pride by Rachel Vincent 5/22
3. Prey by Rachel Vincent 9/13
4. Shift by Rachel Vincent 9/16
5. Alpha by Rachel Vincent 10/3

Ghosts
1. Highlander In Her Bed by Allie Mackay 10/12
2. The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong 8/16
3. Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels 10/6
4. Hourglass by Claudia Gray 8/25
5. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 9/1

Dragons
1. Playing With Fire by Katie MacAlister 10/17
2. Up In Smoke by Katie MacAlister
3. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
4. Firelight by Sophie Jordan
5. Havemercy by Jaida Jones 10/8

Angels
1. Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh
2. Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
3. Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter 7/8
4. Torment by Lauren Kate
5. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick

Demons
1. The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter 7/5
2. The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter 5/11
3. The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter 8/24
4. Into the Dark by Gena Showalter 8/18
5. The Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter 8/31

Witches
1. Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong 6/24
2. Passion Play by Beth Bernobich 9/27
3. Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder 7/27
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling 8/19
5. The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud 9/9

Aliens/Immortals
1. The Host by Stephanie Meyer 8/22
2. Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. Slave by Cheryl Brooks
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Everything Paranormal - It's on the Cover Challenge
May 1st through November 31st

A book that has a naked male on the cover
1. The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter 5/11
2. The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter 7/5
3. Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter 7/8
4. The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter 8/24
5. Into the Dark by Gena Showalter 8/18


A book that has an Cartoonish Cover
1. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen 6/11
2. How To Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks 7/7
3. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 7/12
4. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris 7/19
5. Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev 8/7


An Animal on the Cover
1. Promise of the Wolves: A Novel by Dorothy Hearst 6/30
2. Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine 6/13
3. Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren
4. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris 9/4
5. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 9/20


A Sexy Female on the cover
1. Pride by Rachel Vincent 5/22
2. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris 7/17
3. Prey by Rachel Vincent 9/13
4. Fade Out by Rachel Caine 8/5
5. Hourglass by Claudia Gray 8/25

June Challenge

Published in June: Promise of the Wolves by Dorothy Hearst 6/30
6th in Series: Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine 6/14
Red Cover: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 6/2

White Cover: Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz 6/26


Done!

Alphabet Challenge

A- The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
B- blame/ blood/ bad
C- The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
D- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 7/12
E- eve/ eternal/ embrace
F- forever/ force/ fury
G- ghost/ game/ grave
H- hunt/ hot/ hunger
I- The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
J- joke/ jewel/ jump
K- Kiss Of Death by Rachel Caine 10/25
L- Dark Lover by J. R. Ward
M- Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong 6/24

Match-up Challenge for Me by Nariabell
Here, There and Everywhere Challenge
*Read 10 books*

Here...
* Old favourite: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling 8/19
* TBR for over a year: Maiden of the Wolf by Tiffany Trent 7/5
* Random book from TBR: Heart of Darkness (anthology) 7/8
* PNR or UF book: Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz 8/3

there...
* Recommended by a friend: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 7/12
* Shelf of favourite goodreads group: The Host by Stephanie Meyer (from Bookshelf Bitches) 8/22
* Friend's TBR shelf: How To Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks (from Lenore) 7/7

...and everywhere
* Book everyone is talking about: Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 9/20
* Book that has become a movie/TV Show: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris 9/4
* Book you've seen an advert for: Hourglass by Claudia Gray 8/25

Done!

Swept Under the Rug Challenge

1. The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong 8/16
2. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver 7/23
3. Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter 7/8
4. Hourglass by Claudia Gray 8/25
5. Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz 8/3
6. Into the Dark by Gena Showalter 8/18
7. Young Bess by Margaret Irwin 7/29
8. The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw 8/2
9. Fade Out by Rachel Caine 8/5
10. Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev 8/7
11. Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett 8/12
12. The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz 8/18

Done!

Pretty Cover Challenge

*Best Book Covers of 2010: Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev 8/7
*Best Book Covers Of 2009: The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw 8/2
*Kiss The Cover List: Club Dead by Charlaine Harris 7/19
*Books With The Blues: Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of "The Little Mermaid" by Debbie Viguie
*Hottest Guy On The Cover List: The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showlater 7/5
*The Color Purple List: Storm Glass by Maria Snyder 7/27
*Dude Where's My Forehead?: The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong 8/16
*Flowers On The Cover List: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
*Great Books With Black Covers List: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
*Best Book Cover Art List: Daughter of the Flames by Zoe Marriot 8/28

July Challenge

*Random book: Club Dead by Charlaine Harris 7/19
*4 words in title: Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris 7/17
*New release from June or July: SKIP

Done!

TBR Mountain Clean-Up Challenge

1. Series currently reading: Vamps and the City by Kerrelyn Sparks 8/11
2. Stand-alone book: The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw 8/2
3. Most recent book bought: The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz 8/18
4. Oldest book on TBR list: Oracle of the Morrigan by Tiffany Trent 9/11
5. Start new series: The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong 8/16
6. Written/published before 1980: Young Bess by Margaret Irwin 7/29
7. 400 or more pages: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (470 pages) 7/23
8. Kindle book: Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder 7/27
9. Favorite author: Prey by Rachel Vincent 9/13
10. Steampunk: Fade Out by Rachel Caine 8/5

Done!

Back to School Challenge
August 1st to October 31st

-Math: The book must have a number in the title.
-English: The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw 8/2
-Science: Fade Out by Rachel Caine 8/5
-History: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
-Art: Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev 8/7

-Music: Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater 8/9
-Foreign Language: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling 8/19
-Law: The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
-Sports: Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz (YA) 8/3
The Host by Stephanie Meyer (Sci-Fi) 8/22
-Computers: The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter 8/24

August Challenge

*6 letters in title: The Host by Stephanie Meyer 8/22
*8th of Random Selection: Fade Out by Rachel Caine 8/5
*New author: The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw 8/2
*Fall colors: Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater 8/9

*Book with Fae: Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev (Summer Fae) 8/7
*Friend's shelf: Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz (Lisa's Shelf) 8/3

Done!

Month to Month Challenge
Sept 1st, 2010 to Sept 1st, 2011

January
1.Named For Janus- shifter/two faces
2.Birthstone-Garnet Read a book with a Red cover.
3.Zodiac Sign-Capricorn- Read a book that has a character who is a Farmer
4.Birth Flower- Carnation- Read a book where two characters fall in love.

February
1.Named for Februa- Read a book where a character makes a scarifice for others.
2.Birthstone-Amethyst Read a book with a purple cover
3.Zodiac Sign-Aquarius Read a book that has a Doctor as it's character
4.Birth Flower- Violets Read a book that has a heart on it's cover.

March
1.Named for Mars Read a book that has a War within it's story.
2.Birthstone-Aquamarine Read a book with a Pale Blue cover
3.Zodiac Sign-Pisces Read a book that has a Detective as a character.
4.Birth Flower-Daffodils Read a book that has a star/stars on it's cover

April
1.Named for Aprodite Read a book where a character is considered to be God/Godess
2.Birthstone-Diamond Read a book that has a White cover
3.Zodiac Sign-Aries Read a book that has a character that is a Journalist
4.Birth Flower-Daisy Read a Young Adult novel or a book where a character is considered Innocent.

May
1.Named for Maia Read a book that takes place in the Spring
2.Birthstone-Emerald Read a book with a Green cover
3.Zodiac Sign-Taurus Read a book with a character that is a Model.
4.Birth Flower-Lily of The Valley Read a book with a Happy ending

June
1.Named for Juno Read a book with a married couple or a couple that gets married within the story.
2.Birthstone-Pearl Read a book with the word White in it's title
3.Zodiac Sign-Gemini Read a book that has a Teacher as it's character.
4.Birth Flower-Rose Read a book that has a shape of an Oval on it's cover.

July
1.Named for Juluis Ceasar Read a book that has a Roman Warrior in it.
2.Birthstone-Ruby Read a book with Red in it's title
3.Zodiac Sign- Cancer Read a book that has a Baker as it's character
4.Birth Flower-Water Lily Read a book that is considered to be Humorous.

August
1.Named for Augutus Ceasar Read a book set in Roman times
2.Birthstone-Peridot Read a book with a Pale Green cover.
3.Zodiac Sign-Leo Read a book with a Character that is Self-Emplyed
4.Birth Flower-Gladiolas Read a book with a Sword on it's cover.

September
1. The Seventh Month: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud 9/9
2.Birthstone-Sapphire: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 9/1

3.Zodiac Signs-Virgo Read a book with a character that is a Pyschiatrist
4.Birth Flower-Morning Glory Read a book with the word Star in it's title.

October
1.The Eight Month Read a Book that starts with E or has Eight in it's title.
2.Birthstone-Opal Read a book with Multiple colors on it's cover.
3.Zodiac Sign-Libra Read a book with a Tailor as a character.
4.Birth Flower-CalendulaRead a book with a Flower on it's cover.

November
1.The Ninth Month: A character that uses magic
2.Birthstone-Topaz Read a book with a yellow color.
3.Zodiac Signs- Scorpio Read a book where a charcter is considered a Soldier
4.Birth Flower- Chrysanthemums: Misguided Angel by Melissa de la Cruz

December
1.The Tenth Month Read a book that takes place in a different Decade
2.Birthstone-Turquoise: Blue in the title
3.Zodiac Sign-Sagittarius Read a book that has a Lawyer as it's character.
4.Birth Flower- Holly: All I Want for Christmas Is a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

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October Challenge

Red cover: Playing With Fire by Katie MacAlister 10/17
Halloween Character (Demon): Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud 10/6
Candy mix: Havemercy by Jaida Jones (m/m romance) 10/8
Old favorite: SKIP
Friend's shelf: Firelight by Sophie Jordan 10/31
Number 10: Kiss Of Death by Rachel Caine 10/25
Any book: Alpha by Rachel Vincent 10/3



Done!