Last Minute Read-A-Thon: Rainbow Book Spine Challenge

The challenge for today is to grab books from your shelf that have the following spine colors to make a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, & violet.

Here's my rainbow:

BOOKS USED

Riven by Jerry B. Jenkins

Ransome's Honor (The Ransome Trilogy, #1) by Kaye Dacus

Into the Free by Julie Cantrell (Currently free at Amazon & B&N)

Wings of Glass by Gina Holmes

Doctor Who: Dark Horizons by J.T. Colgan

Into the Whirlwind by Elizabeth Camden

PROGRESS SO FAR

I finished Hook, Line & Sinker: A Deep Haven Novella by Susan May Warren, started and am halfway through Waiting for Dawn: A Team Hope Novella also by Susan May Warren, read 30 pages of Endlessly (Paranormalcy, #3) by Kiersten White and read 16 pages of Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #1) by Laini Taylor.

• Pages read: 116

• Books finished: 1

Mind Games (Mind Games #1) by Kiersten White (Review)

Fia was born with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right. Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is gripped by strange visions of the future.

Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways…or risking each other’s lives by refusing to obey.

In a stunning departure from her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, Kiersten White delivers a slick, edgy, heartstoppingly intense psychological thriller about two sisters determined to protect each other—no matter the cost.

I GIVE THIS BOOK:

MY THOUGHTS:
I was surprised by how quickly Mind Games drew me into the story, I was hooked from page one and just wanted to read it all right away - love when I feel that way. I loved how the book shifted the POV between both sisters, but the constant backtracking in time every other chapter or so was a little confusing. Enjoyable, I loved getting to know the things it brought up, but at the same time it would get me out of the story that was taking place and then it would take a bit for me to get back into the story again. That is the only reason I'm not giving this book 5 stars. Everything else in the story was SO good!


Mind Games was a really great read and one that I recommend. I plan to read the next book in this series as soon as it releases.

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Last Minute Read-A-Thon: Goals

I'm hoping to read 6 of the books listed below (three of them are really short so I think this is doable).

Signing Up for TWO Read-A-Thons!!!

I'm signing up for the Last Minute Read-A-Thon hosted by Maria @ A Night's Dream of Books and Vonnie @ Vonnie's Reading Corner. 

Requirements:

• You must post a Sign Up Post and put your link on the linky found on the sign-up page.
• You may put up your post on your blog or Facebook.
• Must have their button with links to the hosts' blogs.
• Once the read-a-thon begins, you must post your launch post with your reading plans/goals.
• Have fun!

I'll be posting my goals for this read-a-thon on the 26th.

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I'm also signing up for the Bout of Books 9.0 read-a-thon hosted by Bout of Books. 

About this read-a-thon:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 6th and runs through Sunday, January 12th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 9.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I'll be posting my goals for this read-a-thon closer to the start date.

Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island by Mike Tucker (Review)

On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children's nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...

I GIVE THIS BOOK:

MY THOUGHTS:
The Nightmare of Black Island was a fun & interesting story and another great installment to the Doctor Who: New Series Adventures. I loved the interactions between the Doctor & Rose, they were done very well, and the way the Doctor behaved was almost spot on - there were a couple of things he did that just didn't seem right. The monsters in this book were quite terrifying, the idea was just so scary, I just loved it!

If you're a fan of Doctor Who, especially the tenth incarnation, I think you'd really enjoy reading The Nightmare of Black Island. I know I did :)

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The Many Hands by Dale Smith (Review)

The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard. That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died. It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.



Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.

I GIVE THIS BOOK:

MY THOUGHTS:
This was such a great DW story! I loved how every action by both the Doctor and Martha fit perfectly with their on-screen personas. Every time the Doctor was saying something or doing something in the book it was very easy to read it in David Tennant's voice and visualize him acting that way, which is so nice.

The monsters in the story were super creepy and not at all what I thought they were going to be. There were so many funny lines, that I was smiling so often it was ridiculous.

I loved that the story took place in Scotland, and when it said the Doctor had a Scottish accent I was hearing the accent David used in the episode Tooth and Claw.

Fans of Doctor Who should love reading The Many Hands - I know I did! :)

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