Amy’s Comments (group member since Aug 30, 2012)

Amy’s comments from the SOS: Serious Overload of Series group.

Had a wonderful time playing with you guys...hope I get you on my team next time and I get more time to read, I could always use more reading time :)

Have fun!

For my 2012 I am reading

shelf: Dark Fantasy
Book Choosen: The Gunslinger-dark Tower book 1
Rating: 5 Stars
Date Finished: 11/15/12
Review
"The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed..." I love love love this series. Stephen King is my fav author of all time and this series embodies everything I love about his writing. It follows Roland of Giliead on his quest to reach the Dark Tower. I read and finished this series years ago so this was a re-read for me. If you've ever read the series I highly recommend re-reading at least this first book. It ties so much together and so much more makes since. I caught so many things that brought the whole books together that I didn't remember by the time I finished book 7. Roland and Jake's relationship has so many levels to it and "Go then there are other worlds then these" will stick with me all me life :) I also can't look at the song "hey Jude" the same after these books. The world created its a mix of fantasy tied with real life history and time travel. There is symbolism in EVERYING. I will continue re-reading these books and highly recommended them to anyone who enjoys a good dark fantasy that is still tied into the modern world.

We are going on vacation tomorrow for 9 days and I PROMISE I will catch up then :)

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... this is an awesome Q and A done with Karen Marie Moning regarding ICED, if you haven't read it yet, check it out

Hey guys, just checking in, this has been a crazy busy week, still working on dark fantasy and will pick my 2012 book in a bit after I get the girls into bed. :)

Since finishing ICED I now have a big gaping hole in my life. Time to start back over from square one....Dark Fever here I come. :)

Shelf: Favorite Series
Book Chosen: Iced by Karen Marie Moning
Date Finished: Nov 4th
Rating: Five Stars
Review:
Oh my gosh I FREAKING LOVED IT!! Super ultimate, best book of the year hands down. This book takes place right where the Fever Series left off, but in Dani's pov instead of Mac's. There is way to much to get into without spoiling everything so I wont even try. I will say that Karen Marie Moning is my second favorite author of all time and I will read (and probably enjoy) any and everything she writes. She could scribble on a napkin and I would pre-order it. The story line, characters and world in Iced are amazing. I finished Iced late at night, but purposely left the last two pages to read in the morning, just because I was so sad it was over. If you haven't read the Fever Series, you must, and if you have, then go read Iced right now :)

Breann wrote: "I've been reading reviews for Iced and am I the only one who doesn't see Ryo as a love interest for Dani? [spoilers removed]"
I don't know I cant get a read on what he feels for her but it is something. Ryo being drawn to admire her was hinted at the first time we really ever saw Dani and Ryo together in the Fever series, and at the beginning of the ICED there were a couple of hints but now that I'm towards the very end, he seems to not be thinking in that direction, but he doesn care deeply to keep her alive for whatever reason. He's so hard to read though and this book being in Dani's POV there have been sexual inuendos that go right over her head, so maybe she wouldn't notice if he did feel that way? Idk, Two out of the three hinted love interests are immortal and they both have said that waiting for her isn't a problem, and it doesn't gross me out because it's her personality and mind and high spirit what-not that attracts them to her, not her girl body, lol

Breann wrote: "I'm glad he's not the same as Barrons and that KMM is created two arrogant constant jackasses but are still two very different men."

Great minds think alike Breann...I was going to say the same thing and include this quote from Dani I highlighted... "Barrons breaks heads. Ryodan turns them inside out. Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up" Same outcome, different approaches, two very different men. Both sexy, lol On another note, I am really liking how she's included snipits of Mac and Barrons, but this book is still all Dani, it's not over riding her story (so far) Of course I could ALWAYS use more Mac and Barrons :) Oh and I just remembered that KMM is notorious for leaving the Fever books in gut wrenching cliff hangers...so I'm trying to prepare myself for that :)

Hahaha, me too. I read these books way to fast, that's why I had to read Shadow Fever twice in a row. I think he was turning Unseelie because of a combo of all three reasons but just wanted to make sure I remembered correctly. Since that seems to be all of our opinion I'll stick with it.
I'm at 26% I belly laughed at this...
"He sneezes. Just like a real person. I'm half surprised to find he actually breathes" <--Dani's thought about Ryodan lol
Their relationship seems very Mac-Barronsish atm...well only Ryodan has much more respect then Barrons did for Mac at first

Oh and Ryodan makes me swoon because he is so intense in all that he is, the intensity of the KMM males are like NOTHING else on this earth...they all make me swoon

Christian is creeping me out ATM...(terrible KMM fan moment coming -->) He is turning in to an Unseelie Prince because of the reaction between his protection tattoos and eating Unseelie right? Or was it because of where he was at during the time he ate it? Just trying to make sure I remember correctly. I read Shadow Fever twice in a row when it came out and a third time two months later, but still...I have to many books on the brain, lol

16% and I am LOVING Dani's POV. She is so upbeat and optimistic and so very sure of herself. Ryodan makes me swoon. He seems like an older more controlled uber-male version of Dani. Must go read. The ONLY thing I don't like about any of KMM books is I read them too fast, lol

Yay for stamps!! (Team 4 is still scaring me) I started reading the series before I watched True Blood, they stuck somewhat to the book the first season, after that it was like a free for all or something. The first 4 or 5 books are good but they go down hill after that. And yes I am doing the buddy read for ICED. It is sooo very good :)

Shelf: Series Catch Up
Book Chosen:
Date Finished: 11/1/12
Rating: 3 Stars
Review:
I can't do this review with out millions of spoilers so don't read if you haven't read this book. That being said, now I remember why I didn't rush out and read this book when it came out, the series became boring for me. The first 20 percent of this book was mostly re-cap (aside from the fire bombing of Merlots) which was good for me because I remembered NOTHING that was going on at first, but all that re-cap would have been annoying if I was reading this series straight through. Sookie Stackhouse is caught up in a whole bunch of messes once again. Her job is losing customers and was bombed by a crazy enemy of hers, her fairy cousins are being strange (I'm dissapointed in Claude and Dermonts' characters, I like my fairies to have more personality) Debbie Pelt's sister Sandra is after Sookie's blood because she believes Sookie murdered Debbie, She found a letter from her dead Gran paired with a small magical love charm that she doesn't know what it is at first, The new acting vampire regent Victor wants to kill her (seems like everyone does) and is causing major problems for Eric and Pam and all in between this she is planning Tara's baby shower. I feel like Charline should have picked only a few of these plots to play out, each one didn't get as much time and focus because there was so much going on and it made it all drag on and on. There is one very cool bloody scene in the end where I felt happy with the outcome, other then that I was disappointed with each situation. She ends up finding a way to dissolve her blood bond with Eric (she didn't really think it through in my opinion) and then guess who comes back in the picture, Bill (ugh, he's so gross). There has been so much time in all the books spent on her love life, and now it seems back to square one. I could complain for a while longer, but I wont :) I'm over this series (for now at least)

Forced myself to finish Dead Reckoning before I bought ICED, not abandoning DR and jumping head first into ICED on Tuesday was the hardest thing ever and just might have taken years off my life, and I hate Sookie Stackhouse even more because of it, lol. But the good news is that I'm done with DR (ugh, I'm done with this series, I'm over it) and just downloaded ICED to my kindle!!! I am soooo excited I think I will swoon, faint, spin in a circle and then stay up all night reading...Well after I take my daughter to her last soccer practice in 30 mins, lol. I will post my review for DR we we get home from practice. Oh and has anyone else read the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning? If not I HIGHLY recommend it.

I was snooping around on the other threads, and team 4 is dangerously close to winning. If they finish their demons stamp they will have four in a row, the last one to fill would be magic...so lets all think good thoughts that magic doesn't get called soon

Oh and don't feel bad about your free stamp, I'm currently holding up our Series Catch Up Stamp...now I remember why I wasn't very excited and didn't read Dead Reckoning when it came out..the series got boring, lol I'm getting through it though, I want to have it finished by tomorrow because ICED comes out and I know I wont be able to put that one down till it's done, lol