I wouldn’t be a good BookTube follower if I would not follow and try to participate in the BookTube-A-Thon, a weeklong Readathon event that (so far as I know) started in Ariel Bissett’s YouTube Channel and became a happy celebration of BookTubers and reading.
So, without much further ado (after all, I should be tackling my TBR right now), here is my TBR list with the challenges I finished already and my TBR for the yet to be done challenges:
The 2017 Reading Challenges:
1/ Read a book with a person on the cover.
2/ Read a hyped book.
I heard frequently of “Every Heart a Doorway(Wayward Children, #1)” by Seanan McGuire on Youtube and even now it seems to be one of the most read books in the Readathon.
My review: 3 stars. A very interesting premise, but somehow underdeveloped. Great story ideas were thrown in a shallow way that surely needed more depth. I hope the next books in the series develop it further.
3/ Finish a book in one day.
This was the first challenge I finished because short is quickly done. For this challenge, I chose the “Curran POV Collection”, a collection of scenes you can download on the web page of the authors Ilona and Gordon Andrews. This scenes will mostly only make sense if you read the Kate Daniel’s series (and I sincerely recommend this series as awesome paranormal fantasy).
My review: 5 stars, ** spoiler alert **
Curran: “I spat the ear out and knocked it toward him with my paw. No, you can keep it. Doesn’t taste that great.” This line still makes me laugh by myself one day after reading this book.
Curran POV shows his side on the scenes that were mainly told in Kate’s POV during the series. It shows the hard side of what is needed to be the alpha of the shapeshifters in Kate’s world. Not an easy day at the office for sweet and wild Curran. 😉
I wished there would be more of this series than only the next book. This is also a short book that you can (unfortunately) read in one day.
4/ Read about a character that is very different from you.
5/ Finish a book completely outdoors.
6/ Read a book you bought because of the cover.
“Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2) by Val McDermid”. The one published by HarperFiction with the gloomy Abbey on the cover. Besides the cover, I also chose this book to finally read something by Val McDermid, an author my mother likes a lot and because I did like the original “Northanger Abbey” by J.Austen.
7/ Read seven books.
UPDATE AFTER THE READATHON
So my final results were:
1/ Read a book with a person on the cover.
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock #1) by Faith Hunter — 32 pages
2/ Read a hyped book.
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire — 176 pages
3/ Finish a book in one day.
Curran POV Collection (Curran POV #1-9) by Gordon Andrews, Ilona Andrews — 157 pages
5/ Finish a book completely outdoors.
This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) by Victoria Schwab — 61 pages, finished after the readathon.
Later update (3/8/17): I didn’t manage to read this whole book outdoors, but all my books have been outdoors one moment or another so I consider this challenge half done.
This was a 5 stars book with great characters and an original and poetic story.
6/ Read a book you bought because of the cover.
Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2) by Val McDermid — 358 pages
And I didn’t read the seventh book yet, but later on, steady as I go…