book club thursday - reading challenge

Welcome Readers

My name is Cyn and each week we (me and my BFF Ann from Romancing the Readers) blog all about books and book related topics on something we call Book Club Thursday(BCT). Learn more about me and BCT here

Our feature today is:

This is when we read and review a book that fits one of themes from our "challenge" list:

Read a book published before 2010

Read a book published in the month (not year) you were born

Read a book set in your home state

Read a book with a cover you don’t like

Read a book you once gave up on

Read a book with a clever title

Read a new to you author

Start a new series

Read a hardcover
Read a trade

Read a “small-town” romance

Read a book with a favorite trope

Read a historical set anywhere but the USA

Read a book you keep meaning to read

Read a book that taught you something

Read a Trifecta book (sounds, cover, title must all be same theme)

Anger Management (a book that PISSED you off at some point)

Anything Goes (read ANYTHING you want)

Just Because (you read this “just because”…state the reason)

Bird- Beast – Fish (atypical animals are part of the story)

Land-Sea-Sky (features bodies of water, mountains, planes etc)

Double Dip (can re- do any challenge)

An Apple a Day (medical main character(s))

Recommend By (say who / what )

I Tried, But… (one you couldn’t finish and why)

Second Chances (an author you are giving a “second” chance to)

Hot for Teacher (main character(s)is a teacher)

Read a historical set in the USA

The Great Outdoors (main character(s) work outdoors)

AKA (author with a pseudonym)

BOO! ( book with a ghost)

Survivors (books with hard subject matter)

* completed challenges

I picked - read a hardcover

Coincidentally I just featured this on my Happy Release Day (July 10)

FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair hunts for evil in the deepest recesses of the human mind. Still reeling from the death of her fiancé, she wants nothing more than to focus on her research into the brains of serial killers. But when the Washington D.C. police stumble upon a gruesome murder scene involving a girl who was slowly starved to death while held captive in a cage, Sayer is called in to lead the investigation. When the victim is identified as the daughter of a high profile senator, Sayer is thrust into the spotlight.

As public pressure mounts, she discovers that another girl has been taken and is teetering on the brink of death. With evidence unraveling around her, Sayer races to save the second victim but soon realizes that they are hunting a killer with a dangerous obsession...a killer who is closer than she thought.

I've been lucky with the books I've been picking lately.

Since most have fallen into the thriller/suspense genre to say this was another home run for me, is pretty damn cool.

I mean, the fact that the books are pretty all sound fresh and have a different take on some similar themes/tropes (sometimes, not all the time).

I really really hope Caged kicks off a series with characters, because that is one of the huge pluses in the novel for me. That and the fact the ending does leave you hanging!

Sayer is one hell of a lead and the secondary characters are plenty interesting too.

Ms Cooper writes a fascinating plot (to say more would ruin things) with plenty of creep thrown in- oh yes- OMG yes!

Caged is hard to put down and forget about.