I'm intending to catch up on quite a few series this year, starting with a few of the shorter series that have been lurking on my shelves for a while! If I can clear them it will help in the battle to reduce the never-ending tbr!
The Plan is to start this year with a few series that I really must finish or catch up with. Once I've done them all I'll extend the challenge by adding more series on until I run out of days in the year. The challenge will run all year.
SERIES TO BE FULLY READ
1) DD BARANT-BLOODHOUND FILES
1-Dying Bites
2-Death Blows
3-Killing Rocks
4-Better Off Undead
5-Back From The Undead
6-Undead To The World
2) JAYE WELLS-SABINA KANE
1-Red Headed Stepchild
2-The Mage In Black
3-Green Eyed Demon
4-Silver Tongued Devil
5-Blue Blooded Vamp
-Violet Tendencies #2.5
-Rusted Veins #5.5
3) MLN HANOVER-BLACK SUN'S DAUGHTER
1-Unclean Spirits
2-Darker Angels
3-Vicious Grace
4-Killing Rites
5-Graveyard Child
4) CHRISTINA HENRY-BLACK WINGS
1-Black Wings
2-Black Night
3-Black Howl
4-Black Lament
5-Black City
6-Black Heart
7-Black Spring
5) KELLY MEDING-DREG CITY
1-Three Days to Dead
2-As Lie the Dead
3-Another Kind of Dead
4-Wrong Side of Dead
5-Requiem For the Dead
6-The Night Before Dead
6) JOELLE CHARBONNEAU-THE TESTING
1-The Testing
2-Independent Study
3-Graduation Day
This year, I really need to get a pile of paperbacks off the tbr and bookshelf, and out to the charity shops! Every month I'll be trying to tackle a few that I'm not sure I'm going to like based on gut feelings, reading tastes or Goodreads reviews. On this list I'll indicate what I managed to read, what was DNFed and if any of them are keepers! I'll be adding to the list through the year and the challenge will end in December.
1) A American-Going Home (The Survivalist #1)
2) Annie Berdel-Alpha Farm (Prepper Chick #1)
3) Justin Somper-Allies & Assassins (Allies & Assassins #1)
4) Michael J Sullivan-The Crown Tower (Riyria Chronicles #1)
5) Candace Robinson-Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault (Glass Vault #1)
6) Candace Robinson-The Bride of Glass (Glass Vault #2)
7) Conn Iggulden-Darien (Empire of Salt #1)
8) RL King-Stone And A Hard Place
9) Stephen King-Revival
10) Joseph Nassise-Eyes To See
11) Joseph Nassise-By the Blood of Heroes
12) Boyd Craven-Breaking Point
13) Mary Kubika-Every Last Lie
14) CJ Tudor-The Chalk Man
15) DB Thorne-Troll
16) Seth C Adams-If You Go Down to the Woods
17) Belinda Bauer-Snap
18) Terry Brooks-Running With The Demon
19) Thomas E Sniegoski-The Demonists
Welcome to my ebook challenge! This year I plan to get as many books off the ereader and the tbr and free up space for other things.
Here is my starting list of those I really want to deal with. I'll add to the list through the year.
1) Bobby Akart-Axis of Evil (Lone Star #1)
2) Bobby Akart-36 Hours (Blackout #1)
3) Bobby Akart-The Loyal Nine (Boston Brahmin #1)
4) WR Benton-Premonition of Death (Fall of America #1)
5) Lee Murray-Into The Mist
6) Lee Murray-Into The Sounds
7) Donna Galanti-Joshua & The Lightning Road
8) Jeff VanderMeer-Annihilation
9) Meg Collett-Fear University
10) Alex Hughes-Clean
11) Adam J Wright-Lost Soul
12) Norman Christof-Destination Lost
13) Seth Skorkowsky-Damoren
14) Simone Pond-Exodus of Magic
15) Steve McHugh-Crimes Against Magic
16) Suzanne Lazerar-The Secret Life of Rock Stars
17) Michael F Haspil-Graveyard Shift
18) Bobby Adair-Ebola K
19) Ania Ahlborn-The Shuddering
20) Saul Tanpepper-Gameland
21) Hunter Shea-The Devil's Fingers
It's the first month of the year, the darts are finishing soon and it'll be back to a full reading schedule for Chuckles! Now it is time to share my plans for the month ahead on the reading side of things.
The plan is to stop going overboard with lists of 30 books a month which is unrealistic. Instead I'll pick a few related to various challenges that I'm doing and books I just feel like reading. No stress, no huge targets but something to motivate me. After I read these books I can add on anything else I get to at a later date!
WORLD READS
1) Lee Murray-Into the Mist (New Zealand)
2) Lee Murray-Into The Sounds (New Zealand)
ROYAL CHALLENGE/NON FICTION
1) Lady Colin Campbell-The Royal Marriages
SERIES CATCHUP
1) Joelle Charbonneau-The Testing
2) Joelle Charbonneau-Independent Study
3) Joelle Charbonneau-Graduation Day
4) George RR Martin-A Dance With Dragons pt 2
PAPERBACK PURGE
1) A American-Going Home (The Survivalist #1)
2) Diana E Anderson-Premonitions (The Farm #1)
3) Annie Berdel-Alpha Farm (Prepper Chick #1)
EBOOK ELIMINATOR
1) Bobby Akart-Axis of Evil (Lone Star #1)
2) Bobby Akart-36 Hours (Blackout #1)
3) Bobby Akart-The Loyal Nine (Boston Brahmin #1)
4) WR Benton-Premonition of Death (Fall of America #1)
5) Saul Tanpepper-Gameland
I'm finishing off the year by taking a look at the books I hoped that I'd love or enjoy but didn't for a variety of reasons.These books scored between 1 and 3 stars, some were finished and some were DNFed.
POOR WRITING AND LACK OF INTERESTING STUFF
The problem with these books is that the author was wasted through most of these years and remembers very little worth recounting so there is repetition, no timeline, random scattered stories, confused writing, rambling poetry. There was little about the family breakup by Elizabeth Taylor and the Harrison Ford Affair was somewhat painful to read about as she was obviously somewhat damaged when it was happening. I'm afraid I found little of interest in these books at all.
DULL CONTENT
A Conservative Coup should have been interesting, regarding the plot that brought down a Prime Minister but it managed to be dull, full of unimportant waffle and it was an ordeal to finish. Patriots was too info-dumpy. The Dark Net, Will Of Man and The Survivors bored me and the Kate Middleton book was poor in every way.
DISLIKED SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
DISLIKED MULTIPLE CHARACTERS
TROPE & PACING
Insta-luv, love triangles, slow writing, slow moving plots.
STRANGE PLOT CHOICES
Rice starting a zombie apocalypse, retirement homes from hell, too short, Preppers making dumbest decisions, best characters being killed off for no reason, unrealistic.
BOOKS I EXPECTED MORE FROM
These books get 3 stars but just weren't as good as I wanted them to be. Dream Woodswas a good idea that I'd want done differently, My Lady Jane had an MC that I disliked for most of the book, Fury of the Orcas had sex obsessed MCs and disturbing animal death, Sharkwater Beach and Lake Lurkers would have been really good without bitch MCs and evil cops.
