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Team #2
Captain: Ophelia

Members:
Ophelia
Delitealex
Linda C

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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:

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Hi Team,
Looking forward to this. Not particularly interested in being Captain.
Going to start looking for free space book and possibilities for some of the square.
I'm from Upstate NY, near Rochester. Lots of snow here right now.

Hi Team not interested in being Captain

I have sent out friend requests and contacted Ophelia. We need to start thinking about a team name.

Ophelia and I were on the winning team in R23 (I was just reviewing past winners and looking for good names). Our team name was Two for the Win. Another good name for a Team #2 was Second to None. I like both of these.

Master List

Shelf Free Space ~ STAMPED

Ophelia ~ Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 2/26/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Iced by Karen Marie Moning Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 3/18/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 3/8/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #1 26Feb: V - Valentine / vampire/s ~ STAMPED
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

Ophelia ~ Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins Rating: ✮✮✮✮ Date Read: 2/28/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Betrayed by P.C. Cast Rating: ✮✮�1/2 Date Read: 3/7/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man by Emily J. Edwards Rating: ✮✮✮✮ Date Read: 3/4/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #2 5March:K ~ Key / Kindle Unlimited ~ STAMPED

Ophelia ~ Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 3/10/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner Rating: ✮✮✮✮ Date Read: 3/11/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Stolen by an Alien by Amanda Milo Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 3/11/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #3 12March: B - Boyfriend / booktok STAMPED

Ophelia ~ The Hero She Loves by Anna Hackett Author Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 3/13/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Jade City by Fonda Lee Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 4/16/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 3/18/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #4 19March: O - One & Only/owned STAMPED

Ophelia ~ Magic Tides & Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 3/29/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Rating: ✮✮1/2 Date Read: 4/1/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Raven's Strike by Patricia Briggs Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 3/25/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #5 26March: G � Galentine/guilty pleasure STAMPED

Ophelia ~ The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 3/30/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ January by Nicole Pyland Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 4/4/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 3/31/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #6 2April: M Mate / Made me cry STAMPED

Ophelia ~ Spiral of Need by Suzanne Wright Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 4/9/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Velvet Moon: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance by Harmony Fuller Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 4/4/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Lightning Dragon by Charlene Hartnady Rating: ✮✮� Date Read: 4/4/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #7 9April: Q - quirky / queen STAMPED

Ophelia ~ Killman Creek by Rachel Caine Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 4/17/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor Rating: ✮✮� 1/2 Date Read: 4/23/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Midnight Jewels by Jayne Ann Krentz Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 4/11/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #8 16April:

Ophelia ~ Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb Rating: Date Read: 4/26/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Rating: Date Read: 3/X/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree Rating: ✮✮✮✮ Date Read: 4/20/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #9 22April:

Ophelia ~ Oath Sworn by K.N. Banet Rating: ✮✮✮✮� Date Read: 4/30/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ The Outside by Ada Hoffmann Rating: Date Read: 3/X/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Mirror Mirror by Ann Aguirre Rating: ✮✮✮✮ Date Read: 4/27/2025 REVIEW


Shelf #10 29April:

Ophelia ~ Book by Author Rating: Date Read: 3/X/2025 REVIEW
Delitealex ~ Fire by Kristin Cashore Rating: Date Read: 3/X/2025 REVIEW
Linda C ~ Her Secret Agent by Paige Tyler Rating: Date Read: 3/X/2025 REVIEW

I think this may have been the only winning team i have been on :) I like Second to None
Linda C wrote: "Ophelia and I were on the winning team in R23 (I was just reviewing past winners and looking for good names). Our team name was Two for the Win. Another good name for a Team #2 was Second to None. ..."

Hi Team!
I wanted to get the post for the master list near the top of this page so it would be easy to find. I'm looking forward to a great round. These challenges guide me to read out of my usual go to zone and sometimes a new genre may stick.

So, you going to Captain, Ophelia? That would be great. And I would go for Second to None for Team name.

Linda C wrote: "So, you going to Captain, Ophelia? That would be great. And I would go for Second to None for Team name."

I don't mind serving as Team Captain. However, I work long hours and may not be available to post at the time of the shelf announcements. Also I suffer from Zombie brain and must be forgiven of typo/format errors on occasion.

I can help if needed and it's something I have access to.

I have picked my Free Space Book and it will be my allowed re-read for this round of bingo. It is the first book of a duology and I want to read the 2nd book during the round, but read book 1 back in 2021 and need a refresher on the plot.

Team #2 - Second to None (?) - Free Space - Selection Post
Option (3) A book off of the group's bookshelf

Book: Playing with Fire
Author: Gena Showalter
Pages: 384
How it Qualifies: added to Group Bookshelf by Desperado 3/11/2011
This is my allowed reread for the round

second to none sounds good to me

Selection Post: Free Space

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

How it fits: Shifter
Pages: 320
This is a reread for me. I absolutely love these stories with Charles and Anna.

Added your name & added Ophelia to the Captains list for Steph to edit.

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

Selection Post: Free Space

Iced by Karen Marie Moning

How it fits: SOS best of uf list
Pages: 512

selection
Shelf #1 ` 26 Feb: V - Valentine / vampire/s

*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


Betrayed By PC Cast
pages: 310
fits: tagged Vampire

Selection Post Shelf #1 ~ 26 Feb: V - Valentine / vampire/s For vampire(s), read a book from either shelf: GR vampire/GR vampires/SOS vampire


Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
How it fits: Located page 7 of the GR vampire page
Pages: 323

Selection Post: Shelf #1 ~ 26 Feb: V - Valentine / vampire/s - 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


Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man - Emily J. Edwards
Pages: 288
How it Fits: character name starting with V - Viviana Valentine

Linda C wrote: "Hi Team,
Looking forward to this. Not particularly interested in being Captain.
Going to start looking for free space book and possibilities for some of the square.
I'm from Upstate NY, near Roches..."

Hi, I work in SoCal and spend most of my time there. I did spend one summer in Shelburne, VT while working in Middlebury, VT. It was too cold for me. When labor day came around I went back south. Snow is fun for a few days for skiing or boarding - as long as I am not shoveling.

Just had 2 days in the 40s and tomorrow back to the 20s

Linda C wrote: "Just had 2 days in the 40s and tomorrow back to the 20s"
That sounds awful. It is only 52 and I have been under the heater all morning!!! I am looking forward to Sunday when it will be a nice 74 and Sunny :)

Completion Post: Shelf #1 ~ 26 Feb: V - Valentine / vampire/s - For Valentine, read a book with 'Valentine' in the title or series name or author or character name starting with V


Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man - Emily J. Edwards
Pages: 288
Read: 3/4/25
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 'Valentine' in the title - Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man
Review: Viviana Valentine is secretary to PI Tommy Fortuna. They get a case from Tallmadge Blackstone to tail his daughter and find out why she doesn't want to marry his business partner (intended bride 18, intended groom 65). Tommy starts and then disappears leaving Viv to cover the office. She takes up the investigation in her own way eventually including her boarding house mates. It is set in 1950 and is filled with NYC slang, 50s dialogue and characters. I loved all the side characters. Viv is one smart cookie. Definitely will be looking for more in this series.

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

Selection Post - Shelf #2 ~ 5 Mar: Key / Kindle Unlimited
* For Kindle Unlimited, read a book on the following shelf: GR Kindle Unlimited


Stolen by an Alien - Amanda Milo
Pages: 333
How it Fits: p. 10 of list - third from the bottom - /shelf/show/...

How is everyone doing? New shelf has been announced.

This is one of the slowest starts to this game I have ever seen! Not one team has asked for a stamp yet.

I'm almost finished

completion post Shelf 1 26 Feb V


Book: Betrayed By PC Cast
pages: 310
Read: 3/7/25
Rating: 3.5 stars
fits: tagged Vampire

review

It's been so long since I've started this series. I'm still enjoying learning more about Zoey and her friends. The world and all the Vamp lore is interesting. The one thing I don't like much is how boy crazy Zoey is but this is YA so you kind of expect it. I'm still planning to continue the series.

selection Post - Shelf #2 ~ 5 Mar: Key / Kindle Unlimited
* For Kindle Unlimited, read a book on the following shelf: GR Kindle Unlimited


A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner
Pages: 313
How it Fits: tagged Kindle unlimited 106 times

Linda C wrote: "How is everyone doing? New shelf has been announced."

Will be up to date today.

Completion Post Shelf #1 ~ 26 Feb: V - Valentine / vampire/s For vampire(s), read a book from either shelf: GR vampire/GR vampires/SOS vampire


Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Date Read: 28Feb, 2025
Rating: ✮✮✮✮
Review:
Hex Hall is a great YA story by Rachel Hawkins. I have enjoyed other books by this author and the title caught my attention. Sophie Mercer lives with her mother-just the two of them. She is aware of her warlock father whom she has never met. Sophie’s mother is not a supernatural. Sophie learned she is a witch just three years before attempting a spell that goes terribly wrong. She has had no formal training and found herself in the spotlight after this mishap. Her father passed punishment on her resulting in her attendance at Hex Hall, a reform school for misguided supernatural/gifted children. Sophie’s time at Hex Hall is full of teenage angst with a supernatural twist including mystery and murder. I enjoyed this book and will continue the series.

Completion Post: Free Space

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs
Date Read: 28Feb, 2025
Rating: ✮✮✮✮�
Review:
I love the stories of Charles and Anna, the detailed world Patricia Briggs has constructed as Mercy Thompson’s world, and the action-packed mysteries the characters are engaged in. Charles Cornick is the enforcer for his father’s pack, The North American Ware wolves. Charles has magic from both his mother and his father making him different from the others. Anna is different in her own way as she is an Omega.
Charles and Anna are struggling with a new relationship, getting to know each other and coping with their own demons. Added to their burden is the task assigned to Charles to go out into the northern wilderness, find a rogue ware wolf and put an end to the killing going on there. The adventure assigned to them and unfolding of their relationship is a captivating story I will continue to revisit many times.

Shelf #1 Stamp Requested

Linda C wrote: "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 ..."

thanks Linda

Selection Post Shelf #2 ~ 5 Mar: Key / Kindle Unlimited


Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright
How it fits: Located page 3 of the GR Kindle Unlimited page
Pages: 429

Team #2 - Second to None - Free Space - Completion Post
Option (3) A book off of the group's bookshelf

Book: Playing with Fire
Author: Gena Showalter
Pages: 384
How it Qualifies: added to Group Bookshelf by Desperado 3/11/2011 - This is my allowed reread for the round
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 3/8/25

Review: During an incident in the coffee shop where Belle Jamison works a fleeing scientist puts an experimental drug in her mocha latte. Strange things begin to happen including her making fire, rain and wind that she can’t control. Two groups of people want to capture, experiment, test and control her. One government agent says he will protect her. Who is really telling the truth and can they find the scientist to see if there is an antidote. This sounds like a great paranormal plot and about half way through the book it begins to live up to its potential.

However, getting past the first half where the FMC is one obnoxious character is daunting. This is a reread because I did not write a review the first time. I am now going back to several reads and filling the blanks. In this case I think I skimmed a bit of the beginning to get to the good parts. A complete read does not change my feeling on the book but did fill in some of the backstory. I have the second book in the duology, so I want to read it while this is fresh and the main character is more agreeable.

completion Post - Shelf #2 ~ 5 Mar: Key / Kindle Unlimited
* For Kindle Unlimited, read a book on the following shelf: GR Kindle Unlimited

A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner
Pages: 313
read: 3/11/25
rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: tagged Kindle unlimited 106 times

Review

Arletta is a human baker in her small town. In this world humans are considered magicless and looked down upon. She had dreams of one day opening up a bakery, but many obstacles stand in her way. I loved the characters and the friendships they made. I didn't really care for the romance part but overall enjoyed the story. I can't wait to read the rest of the series.

Completion Post - Shelf #2 ~ 5 Mar: Key / Kindle Unlimited
* For Kindle Unlimited, read a book on the following shelf: GR Kindle Unlimited


Stolen by an Alien - Amanda Milo
Pages: 333
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 3/11/25
How it Fits: p. 10 of list - third from the bottom - /shelf/show/...

Review: Arokh, a Rakhii gladiator, is on a slave market planet looking for his sister who was abducted, when he hears the scream of a Gryfala Princess. He recognizes the sound because he has worked on that planet as security for the Princesses. He goes into protection mode, rescues her and takes her on his hunt for his sister.
The best part of the book is this part where they cannot understand each other and the things that they do to try to communicate. While she is learning about these space worlds, he is trying to figure out why she looks like a Gryfala but doesn’t know their language and acts differently.
Arokh's protection becomes more possessive as they get closer, and the story tries to justify her acceptance of this new restrictive culture while trying to portray her as working to change what she doesn’t like. It doesn’t work for me.
It did set up some story lines that sound more interesting, so I might see where they lead.

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 ~ 12 Mar: B - Boyfriend / booktok - Selection Post
* For booktok, read a book from the following shelf: GR booktok


One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 352
How it Fits: p.5 of the list about halfway down the page

Shelf #3 ~ 12 Mar: B - Boyfriend / booktok - Selection Post
* For booktok, read a book from the following shelf: GR booktok



Jade City by Fonda Lee
pages: 498
fits: on GR booktok list

b>Selection Post: Shelf #3 ~ 12March: B - Boyfriend / booktok

The Hero She Loves by Anna Hackett

How it fits: A solo man on the cover
Pages: 246

Completion Post Shelf #2 ~ 5 Mar: Key / Kindle Unlimited


Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright
Date Read: 6Mar 2025
Rating: ✮✮✮✮�
Review:
Feral Sins has popped up as a recommended read for some time now, so I was optimistic about reading. Suzanne Wright didn’t disappoint. Taryn Warner, is a single wolf shifter who hasn’t shifted. That is her second flaw from her alpha father’s perspective. Her first simply being a female. Her mother is dead and her father has no concern for her other than using her as a bargaining tool to use to make an alliance. Taryn no tool and she is making a plan to escape. Trey Coleman, the alpha from a nearby pack has different plans for Taryn. After some discussion and feeling backed in a corner with no options. Taryn puts all her trust in a stranger and agrees to Trey’s proposal. Neither Trey nor Taryn could have predicted what came next.
Feral Sins held my attention with a mix of compelling and cliché characters, action packed storyline with some mystery woven in. The satisfying conclusion hooked me into the next in the series.

Shelf#2 stamp requested

Ophelia wrote: "Shelf #1 Stamp Requested"

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