SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

Team #9
Captain: Marisa

Members:
Sarah
Marisa
Laura

Just a Hop, Skip & Click Away
Happy Reading!

Shelf Announcements ~ Check for the latest shelf announcement & review the requirements for each shelf
Captain's Log ~ Share team's card after you've stamped it
Ok to Stamp? ~ Request ok to stamp your bingo card
Discussions ~ Throughout the game, head here to chat with other players & shelf chant til your heart's content
Bingo Rules ~ Rules of the game
Free Space Rules ~ Where to look when pickin' your free space book
Bingo FAQ ~ Don't hesitate! If you have a question, let us know.

Hiya, Team Caps! Thanks for volunteering to guide your team through a round of BookShelf Bingo!

Your job, should you choose to accept it, will require a few things:
1 ~ Be our go-to person should we have any questions about your team
2 ~ Organize your teammate's weekly reads for each shelf/category so that the BSB Ninjas can quickly and easily verify and approve your stamp request(s)
2a ~ Create a master list in a post (preferably on the first page of your team's thread) and update it weekly or as often as necessary
2b ~ Post your team's stats on the Request to Stamp thread
2c ~ Upon verification, stamp your team's card
2d ~ Share a link to your team's freshly stamped card on the Captain's Log
3 ~ Encourage and motivate your team (you may also ask to borrow Judithe's whip whenever necessary)
4 ~ Post regularly to ensure your team is communicating and on track each week
4a ~ Send them a PM and friendly poke if they haven't posted at least once a week, noted their book choice, and/or appear to have dropped out of webspace
5 ~ Send us a PM (Steph or Sandra) should you need us for any reason throughout the game

Link to print a copy of your bingo card: https://bingobaker.com/#67ba42261679c40d

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I'm here! I would rather not be captain, but I can do it if no one else can.

Names? I'm not very good with this part. All I've got is Reading to the Nines. My only other thought is something related to Pluto, who was once the ninth planet and is so no longer.

Hello!

I would rather not be Captain, but can if necessary. I did recently hurt my dominant wrist so it makes typing and computer work difficult.

I know it doesn't have a 9 in it, but Novel Navigators? I do also like Reading to the Nines.

We've had our first shelf announcement. Let me send a quick message to Marisa so we can get organized.

ETA: She isn't accepting messages, so I hope she checks in soon.

I've msg Marisa, but its only just after 7.20am in Spain.

Hello, sorry for the delay but it had been some hectic days and I haven't been able to check :( And Sarah, yes, it's better if you rest you hand as much as you can.

If you want, I can be captain, no issue from my side. About names, I like "Reading to the Nines".

Free Space (Stamped)

Laura: The Study of Magic by Maria V. Snyder (07/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold (05/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: The Longing of Lone Wolves by Lana Pecherczyk (04/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review



Shelf 1: V - Valentine / vampire/s (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: The Study of Fire by Maria V. Snyder (14/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: The Vampire and the Case of the Perilous Poltergeist by Heather G. Harris (08/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: The Sea-Ogre's Eager Bride by Ruby Dixon (02/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 2: K - Key / Kindle Unlimited (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: Mayluna by Kelley McNeil (09/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons by J. Penner (18/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Sarah: Fate of the Sun King by Nisha J. Tuli (24/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 3: B - Boyfriend / booktok (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb (17/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Hammerhead by Bianca D'Arc (20/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (17/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 4: O - One & Only / owned (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (26/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Marisa: Warlock Unbound by Dana Marie Bell (24/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: Tale of the Heart Queen by Nisha J. Tuli (09/04/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 5: G - Galentine / guilty pleasure (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: Beyond the Horizon by Bea Paige (29/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: The Pocket Dragon by Tesha Geddes (29/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Sarah: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett (02/04/2025 - 📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 6: M - mate / made me cry (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes (11/04/2025
- 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: The Rebel Dragon by Tesha Geddes (04/04/2025 -
📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: Heartsong by T.J. Klune (17/04/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 7: Q - quirky / queen (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: The Prestige by Christopher Priest (12/04/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: The Baby Dragon Cafe by A.T. Qureshi (11/04/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst (21/04/2025 - 📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 8: X/Z - XOXO / eXcited -or- Zealous / Z (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (21/04/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Dead Beside the Thames by Stephanie Laurens (21/04/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Sarah: Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon (02/05/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 9: A - Anniversary / Alpha Male (Stamp Requested) (Week Summary)

Laura: Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas (02/05/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Fury by Anna Hackett (27/04/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Sarah: The High Mountain Court by A.K. Mulford (10/05/2025 - 📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 10: S - Secret Admirer / series to finish (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Laura: Grave Mistakes by Ivy Asher & Raven Kennedy (02/05/2025 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Marisa: Her Deadly Secrets by Laura Griffin (03/05/2025 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: Wrath of the Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan (04/05/2025 - 📚📚📚) Review

Continues in the next post

Shelf 11: H/I - Happy / humorous -or- Infatuation / 'In Death' (Stamp Requested) (Week Summary)

Laura: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (09/05/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Revie
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Marisa: Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts (10/05/2025 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley (13/05/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 12: R - Relationship / romance/PNR-SFR-Romantasy (Stamp Requested) (Week Summary)

Laura: Oathbound by Tracy Deonn (17/05/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Marriage and Murder by Stephanie Laurens (21/05/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review

Sarah: The Shadow Bride by Shelby Mahurin (19/05/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 13: L - Lovers / LGBTQ (Week Summary)

Laura:
Marisa:
Sarah:

Just in case

Shelf #1 ~ 26 Feb: V - Valentine / vampire/s
Requirement: Choose a book using one of the following options ...

*For Valentine, read a Valentine-themed book, 'Valentine' in the title or series name or author or character name starting with V

* For vampire(s), read a book from either shelf: GR vampire/GR vampires/SOS vampire

Shelf 1: V - Valentine / vampire/s

Laura: The Study of Fire by Maria V. Snyder (14/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: The Vampire and the Case of the Perilous Poltergeist by Heather G. Harris (08/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: The Sea-Ogre's Eager Bride by Ruby Dixon (02/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review



Summary Post

Marisa, I've added you to the Captain's list for Steph to edit :)

I've also added the Team name.

Thank you Marisa for taking on the role of Captain!

For my V book I will be reading The Sea-Ogre's Eager Bride by Ruby Dixon, the main character's name is Valessa (it releases tomorrow so I'll start it then).

I will come back to edit this post with my Free Space selection.

Marisa wrote: "Hello, sorry for the delay but it had been some hectic days and I haven't been able to check :( And Sarah, yes, it's better if you rest you hand as much as you can.

If you want, I can be captain, ..."

Thanks for being captain! I hope your hectic stuff settles down.

Sandra wrote: "I've msg Marisa, but its only just after 7.20am in Spain."

Thank you!

For Vampire I'm going to go with Tin God. It is MPG Vampires.

For Free Space I'll go with The Study of Magic. It is the Study Series #2.5, which is #1 on the Best Of: Young Adult Fantasy series list/thread.

Sandra wrote: "Marisa, I've added you to the Captain's list for Steph to edit :)

I've also added the Team name."

Done 😊

For the Free Space I will be reading The Longing of Lone Wolves by Lana Pecherczyk, it is on the Best of Paranormal Romance List.

Sandra wrote: "Marisa, I've added you to the Captain's list for Steph to edit :)

I've also added the Team name."

Thank you, Sandra

Laura wrote: "Marisa wrote: "Hello, sorry for the delay but it had been some hectic days and I haven't been able to check :( And Sarah, yes, it's better if you rest you hand as much as you can.

If you want, I c..."

Thank you, it was only a small mess at the work, that always looks more important that it is... now till the next one.

Just a comment: I don't usually post what I'm going to read in advance... so I don't have to change it in the middle (it happens to me a looooot)

Marisa wrote: "Just a comment: I don't usually post what I'm going to read in advance... so I don't have to change it in the middle (it happens to me a looooot)"

Understandable!

Selection Post
Free Space
Book: A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Pages: 448
Option: 2 (A book within a series found on one of SOS' member-generated BEST OF lists: Sci-Fi Fantasy series: Miles Vorkosigan)

As I'm in the middle of the book, I think it's a safe bet.

I love Miles Vorkosigan! That one is one of my favorites.

Laura wrote: "I love Miles Vorkosigan! That one is one of my favorites."

Me too!

I love Grover Gardner's narrations of all her books. Her Penric and Desdemona series is really good, too.

I've read a lot of her Vorkosigan books (although not all, as you can see :) ), and her Penric and Desdemona series too (I'm missing only the last one). I think I like all her series.

Completion Post:



Book: The Sea-Ogre's Eager Bride by Ruby Dixon
Pages: 248 pages
Date Read: 3.2.25
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: Main Character name starts with V - Valessa
Review:

I have really enjoyed everything so far in the Aspect and Anchor series by Ruby Dixon. This is a companion to that series, but you don't really have to read the other books in order to understand what's going on. There's a small explanation of any information you may need to know before going into the book. I am a little new but also still very familiar with monster romance. It's weird to see this genre shift, because I recall many years ago this was just Paranormal Romance (or so I thought, I could be wrong). So if Monster Romance isn't your thing, then this may not be for you. The Hero is a sea-ogre, he has four arms, and a sail like fin on the top of his head, and another extra appendage if you know what I mean. The Heroine is a human. I like the dynamic between Valessa and Ranan even if there was a lot of miscommunication. The miscommunication trope is huge in this one. I look forward to Ruby hopefully continuing to write more in this world.

I'm remembering Ellora's Cave at this point....

Shelf #2 ~ 5 Mar: Key / Kindle Unlimited
Requirement: Choose a book using one of the following options ...

*For Key, read a book featuring a key on the cover, 'key' in the title or series name or 'key' in the author's name

* For Kindle Unlimited, read a book on the following shelf: GR Kindle Unlimited

It's not a series, and it's not fantasy/PNR, but it is a book club read for me this month, so I'm going to read Mayluna for this one. It is shelved Kindle Unlimited by 51 people.

I should be caught up by the end of this weekend. I had a few other challenges where I needed to read other books that didn't fit in here.

Shelf 2: K - Key / Kindle Unlimited

Laura: Mayluna by Kelley McNeil (09/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons by J. Penner (18/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Sarah: Fate of the Sun King by Nisha J. Tuli (24/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review



Summary Post

I've already finished my "Free Space" book (I'll add my comment today) and I'm reading my "Vampire" book. Slow but...

Completion Post
Free Space
Book: A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Pages: 448
Option: 2 (A book within a series found on one of SOS' member-generated BEST OF lists: Sci-Fi Fantasy series: Miles Vorkosigan)
Read: 05/03/2025
Rating: ★★★★½



Review

I've enjoyed this book A LOT, and I'll probably would have enjoyed it more without the goofy Borgos' character. The parallelism between the courtships (more than one, yes) and the politic plot is quite good, and how they parallelly evolve... and, of course, Cordelia. Probably not your kind of book if you don't like romance in them (I think that's not usual in this group :D ), but a very good space opera.

Completion Post



Book: The Longing of Lone Wolves: Season of the Wolf by Lana Pecherczyk
Shelf: Free Space
Pages: 418 pages
Date Read: 3.4.25
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: On the Best of Paranormal Romance SOS List
Review:

I wasn't sure how much I'd like this book but I really really did! I'm looking forward to continuing the series. The premise and the execution were really well done. The fantasy was unique enough to stand on it's own, but still familiar so it wasn't hard to get into. I really liked the build of Rush and Clarke's relationship. Some parts of it were just a little predictable but didn't detract from the enjoyability of the book as a whole.

Selection Post

I'll be reading Fate of the Sun King by Nisha J. Tuli tagged 49 times as Kindle Unlimited.

Completion Post

Shelf: Free Space
Book: The Study of Magic
Date Read: 3/7
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: The Study series is #1 on the Best Of: Young Adult Fantasy series list/thread.

Review: I love Valek. He is a perfect book boyfriend. Everyone should have a Valek in their corner. And seeing the events of Magic Study from his POV was interesting. Valek & Yelena spend a lot of the book apart though, so Snyder essentially wrote a new story in this world for the first half of this book. And more stories from this world is something I will always want!

Selection Post
Shelf 1: V - Valentine / vampire/s
Book: The Vampire and the Case of the Perilous Poltergeist by Heather G. Harris & Jilleen Dolbeare
Pages: 257
How it fits: Shelved 10 times as Vampires

😊 WTG! Your request to stamp Free Space has been approved; if you have any issues stamping your card, let me know. Once you’ve stamped your card, go to the Captain’s Log and share a link with us. Thx!

Completion Post
Shelf 1: V - Valentine / vampire(s)
Book: The Vampire and the Case of the Perilous Poltergeist by Heather G. Harris & Jilleen Dolbeare
Pages: 257
How it fits: Shelved 10 times as Vampires
Read: 08/03/2025
Rating: ★★★★½



Review

It has been a fast and fun reading. I've gone directly in this book in the series, but I haven't been at a loss even if there are references to previous books in the series. I think the mystery has been good and it's a different look to the supernatural world (very nice how the ghost and the banshee interact).

Completion Post

Shelf: 2 - K
Book: Mayluna
Date Read: 3/9
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: Shelved Kindle Unlimited by 51 people
Review: Did I cry? Of course. I'm not dead inside. Did I cry as much as the people in my book club were posting they cried? No, I did not. And I think that's because of their posts. I was expecting bad things, so I saw them as soon as the author started to build toward them. In short, an excellent, 5 star, read. But go into without knowing more than the blurb. That will give you the best experience.

Also, I'm super excited because the author is going to be at our book club meeting!

Shelf #3 ~ 12 Mar: B - Boyfriend / booktok
Requirement: Choose a book using one of the following options ...

* For Boyfriend, read a book featuring a book boyfriend, featuring a solo male on the cover or 'boy' in the title or series name

* For booktok, read a book from the following shelf: GR booktok

Shelf 3: B - Boyfriend / booktok

Laura: Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb (17/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Hammerhead by Bianca D'Arc (20/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Sarah: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (17/03/2025 - 📚📚📚📚) Review



Summary Post