Rawk: Rhyme Time - Finished

Rawk-A-Tiers Rhyme Time hosted by Rawk-A-Tiers on Goodreads.

I am doing most of the challenges in Rawk-A-Tiers as RR (3-4 books a week) level but because this started in July and I knew I would read a lot of books that month I decided to go for the higher level of PR (5+ books a week).
To complete this at highest level I needed to read 7 books and they had to be read in order. The first 5 books was no problem but I am glad this lasted 3 months as I have only just achieved my level.

Many people are taught from an early age what a rhyme is. Rhymes surround us every day in poetry, children's books, nursery rhymes, and song lyrics. The rhyme happens when two words have a sound that is very similar. Most of the time rhyming words are arranged in a rhythmic pattern that allows the writer or speaker to fall into a consistent beat that captivates readers and listeners and portrays a message of some sort.

A “rhyme scheme” is the term used for describing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with “A,” then “B,” and so on. If an end sound repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the same letter as the earlier line.

COMMON RHYME SCHEMES

Quatrain (3 examples) ~ requires 4 books
AABB
ABAB
ABBA

Cinquain (3 examples) ~ requires 5 books
ABABB
ABABA
AABBA
AABBA

Sestet (six examples) ~ requires 6 books
ABABCC
ABCABC
AABAAB
AABBCC
ABABAB
ABBCAC

Rhyme Royal ~ requires 7 books
ABABBCC

☯ Your challenge is to build a rhyming chain using books you've read this quarter. The chain does not need to create a story or sentence, only a rhyme of "sound alike words."

☯ To complete the rhyme, you may use the title, the author's name (first or last), character names (main or supporting), or the series title.

☯ You must include the selected rhyme scheme and book completed dates in your post.

☯ The completion dates on your books must appear in the same order as the rhyme scheme you select.  

My Rhyme: Rhyme Royal ~ requires 7 books ABABBCC

A: Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder
B: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
A: Deep in My Heart by Patricia W. Fischer
B: The Cornish Affair by Laura Lockington
B: The Adventures of Augustus Fuller by James Rickon
C: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
C: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa

The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa

The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors. 
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life.
A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's?
A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.
Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities. From Goodreads

 

Unfortunately I found these three novellas boring and uninteresting. I only finished them because they were so short. They stories are twisted but neither beautiful nor darkly humorous as described in the blurb. 

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
I love Library books 2015
Crazy Challenge Connection A-Z Locations - 2014
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Wacky Reading Challenges: Word Search 2015
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time
Rawk-A-Tiers: I Spy
Rawk-A-Tiers: Troupe Theme Challenges
Rawk-A-Tiers: Getting Acquainted
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
Rawk-A-Tiers: House Games
A Million More Pages: Summer Games
Wacky Reading Challenges: Favorite Album - Away From the Sun
Wacky Reading Challenges: Book Tag Challenge #7
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Backpacking Around The Globe
Wacky Reading Challenges: Animal House
Crazy Challenge Connection: Read your age

The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

Don't look at Them
Don't speak of Them
Never enter Their world
Those are the rules that Ethan Chase lives by when it comes to the dark fairies that robbed him of his sister.
But they are still on his trail and Ethan can't fight fate forever.
Now the deadly fey are at his school, colliding with his real life, Ethan will sacrifice everything to keep his mortal friends safe, even if it means becoming entangled in the world he's spent his whole life trying to deny.
His destiny and birthright are calling.
And now there's no escape. From Goodreads.






This is the first book in the The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten series but I would recommend that you read The Iron Fey series first as there is a lot of background story there. Ethan brings Kenzie with him to Fairy after they are threatened but it is not a place for humans. Kenzie is an interesting character and has a lot of guts, but she has her reasons which are revealed at the end of the book.  I liked this and already have the next book sitting on my shelf ready to read.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
I love Library books 2015
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Rawk-A-Tiers: Pack Your Picnic Basket
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time
Rawk-A-Tiers: Troupe Theme Challenges
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Pick Your Fate Adventure Challenge
A Million More Pages: Reading Under The Stars 

The Adventures of Augustus Fuller by James Rickon

The Adventures of Augustus Fuller, classic action adventure fiction from the pen of James Rickon, contains the three stories:
Casus Belli:
The arrival of a misdirected cryptic letter plunges Augustus Fuller, gentleman, into the dangerous intrigues of the anarchist underworld of Edwardian London. With Scotland Yard baffled and reliant on him for information, will Fuller be able to unmask the identity of the anarchist mastermind and discover their plans? Or will his high stakes game end in nothing less than Fuller’s demise in the cruellest of manner?
The Aldbury Devil:
Fear stalks the snow laden landscape of East Kent as the tormented mind of an old man haunts the residents of Aldbury Hall. Can Fuller uncover what lies behind a spate of disturbing killings on the estate? Or will the nightmare stepping out of the cold winter’s night claim his life too?
The Terror Weapons:
With tensions across Europe rising in the hot summer heat of 1905, the British public is held in rapture by newspaper headlines of mysterious explosions lighting up the night skies above cities across the country. Are these nothing more than natural phenomena or does the recovery of a burnt corpse at Portsmouth point to a more insidious and calculating menace at work? From Goodreads.

Three different adventures set in 1905. Augustus Fuller seems to be a gentleman who works under cover both for the police and the Foreign Office. He is nearly killed in all three adventures but of course just manages to get away and ends up kind of solving the cases. Not completely solving as the main bad guys always get away. Not for me.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Rawk-A-Tiers: The Great American Road Trip
Rawk-A-Tiers: Summer At The Beach
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time

The Cornish Affair by Laura Lockington

Fin thinks she's finished with love.
A dedicated food lover, she potters around her country kitchen with Nelson the bad tempered parrot, Baxter the dog and her delightfully vague Aunt, Nancy.
Her days are spent creating ambitious recipes and gazing out onto the Cornish coast from her cliff top home - The House of Dolphins.
But this summer something is about to change.
At the annual Port Charles beach party the glamorous TV chef Oliver Dean is making an appearance
Rich, worldly, and successful he couldn't be more different from Fin.
And yet sometimes opposites attract.
And suddenly Fin realises that romance is on the menu.
But does she still know the ingredients for a a 'Cornish Affair'?
Or is this a recipe for heartbreak? From Goodreads.



On the cover it says it is a laugh out loud foodie romance. I didn't think it was quite that funny but it was still an okay romance.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Rawk-A-Tiers: The Great American Road Trip
Rawk-A-Tiers: Summer At The Beach
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Backpacking Around The Globe

Deep in My Heart by Patricia W. Fischer

Dr. Jocelyn Promise had no long-term plans to stay in Tuscany, Texas, but she saved the daughter of Caleb Davis, her high school crush, and became a hero. Will she allow herself to fall for him again?
Widower and Air Force Veteran, Caleb Davis, never wanted to fall in love again... until he saw Jocelyn. Now someone from his past has arrived to even a score.
Can he protect his family, Jocelyn, and his heart?
Things are about to get interesting in Tuscany, Texas. From Goodreads.

A suspense romance. I like Jocelyn who seems to have turned from an insecure teenager into a strong caring adult. Luke lost his wife and is now a single parent with four kids, 3 year old Riley is of course extremely cute.
It is a romance and therefore has a happy ending. A little too happy as even the woman who is the mean bitch of the story and has been since high school turns into a nice person in the end.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Rawk-A-Tiers: The Great American Road Trip
Rawk-A-Tiers: Summer At The Beach
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
Rawk-A-Tiers: Getting Acquainted
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Dragon Nursery

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world.
This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy to a dramatic and surprising climax as Sanderson's saga offers complex characters and a compelling plot, asking hard questions about loyalty, faith and responsibility. From Goodreads.

Another book it took me a few chapters to get back into, as it is so long since I read the second book. It was a brilliant end to the Mistborn trilogy. Vin and Eland are the main characters but so are the rest of the group as they nearly all have major parts to play.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
2015 Witches & Witchcraft Challenge
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Rawk-A-Tiers: Summer At The Beach
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
Rawk-A-Tiers: Getting Acquainted
Rawk-A-Tiers: Big Books Bonus Club
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Dragon Nursery
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Hogwarts Scavenger Hunt
Crazy Challenge Connection: Monopoly

Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder 7/11-15

The army of the dead are coming…
Avry of Kazan, the last Healer of the mystical Fifteen Realms, has a power that can’t be matched. But in the minds of her friends and foe alike, Avry no longer exists. Now, as the psychotic King Tohon builds an army mightier than any that has been seen before—a league of undead soldiers—Avry must face her toughest, most terrifying battle alone. Fighting to be reunited with her family and her lover Kerrick, Avry must infiltrate Tohon’s troops. But does she have the power, the rare magic; to do what legend says is impossible? From Goodreads.

I enjoyed this and though it took me a few chapters to sort people out, as it is a long time since I read the first book in the series, it wasn't to difficult to get back into. Avry is a brilliant heroine who will give her life for others and is deeply hurt by the loss of her friends and the betrayal by others. This book finishes on a cliffhanger and I won't wait so long before I read the third book.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
2015 Witches & Witchcraft Challenge
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Rawk-A-Tiers: Summer At The Beach
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time
Rawk-A-Tiers: Getting Acquainted
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
Rawk-A-Tiers: House Games
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Pick One For Me
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Dragon Nursery
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Backpacking Around The Globe

Rawk: Rhyme Time

Rawk-A-Tiers Rhyme Time hosted by Rawk-A-Tiers on Goodreads.

I was in doubt if I should join this challenge as I just had no clue. But it seems straight forward and I will try to make a rhyme.

Many people are taught from an early age what a rhyme is. Rhymes surround us every day in poetry, children's books, nursery rhymes, and song lyrics. The rhyme happens when two words have a sound that is very similar. Most of the time rhyming words are arranged in a rhythmic pattern that allows the writer or speaker to fall into a consistent beat that captivates readers and listeners and portrays a message of some sort.

A “rhyme scheme” is the term used for describing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with “A,” then “B,” and so on. If an end sound repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the same letter as the earlier line.

COMMON RHYME SCHEMES

Quatrain (3 examples) ~ requires 4 books
AABB
ABAB
ABBA

Cinquain (3 examples) ~ requires 5 books
ABABB
ABABA
AABBA
AABBA

Sestet (six examples) ~ requires 6 books
ABABCC
ABCABC
AABAAB
AABBCC
ABABAB
ABBCAC

Rhyme Royal ~ requires 7 books
ABABBCC

☯ Your challenge is to build a rhyming chain using books you've read this quarter. The chain does not need to create a story or sentence, only a rhyme of "sound alike words."

☯ To complete the rhyme, you may use the title, the author's name (first or last), character names (main or supporting), or the series title.

☯ You must include the selected rhyme scheme and book completed dates in your post.

☯ The completion dates on your books must appear in the same order as the rhyme scheme you select.  

My Rhyme: Rhyme Royal ~ requires 7 books ABABBCC

A: Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder
B: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
A: Deep in My Heart by Patricia W. Fischer
B: The Cornish Affair by Laura Lockington
B: The Adventures of Augustus Fuller by James Rickon
C: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
C: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa