Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Paranormal Reading Challenge 2013

Welcome to the 2013 Paranormal Reading Challenge hosted by Megan Likes Books and Auntie Spinelli Reads! There are so many awesome sub-genres of paranormal books, that it's easy to find one you like and stick with it. So that's why I decided to make a reading challenge with the goal of reading about all kinds of paranormal creatures.

The goal is to read one book featuring each of the following paranormal creatures:

Vampires
Werewolves/Shifters
Fey
Angels/Nephilim
Mermaids
Dragons
Zombies
Demons
Witches/Wizards
Ghosts
Aliens
Other (ie: sirens, unicorns, centaurs, timetravel etc.)

Guidelines:
1. This challenge runs from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013.
2. You must have a blog to able to participate, since reviews must be added to the linky.
3. When you sign up with the linky, please put the link to your post about joining the Paranormal Reading Challenge.
4. You're welcome to list your books beforehand or just add as you go.
5. Sign-ups are open until December 1, 2013
6. At the beginning of each month, I will post a kick-start post, each month featuring a different category of paranormal creature. This post will also include a linky to include your reviews from that month.
7. Each review you link will qualify you for an entry into the monthy giveaway and if your review includes the feature paranormal creature of that month, you get a bonus entry.
8. Each book can only count for one category, even if it contains more than one paranormal creature. For example, Twilight contains both vampires and werewolves, but you can't use it for both the vampires and werewolves/shifters categories.
9. Everyone who completes the challenge will be entered into a grand prize giveaway at the end of the year.
10. If you read multiple books from one category, feel free to add them to the linkies. Don't stop at just one! 
11. Book can count for other challenges.

Each month, we'll be featuring one of the creatures on the list at both Megan Likes Books and Auntie Spinelli Reads.

January - Vampires
February - Angels/Nephilim
March - Fey 
April - Demons
May - Aliens
June - Zombies
July - Witches and Wizards
August - Mermaids
September - Dragons
October - Ghosts
November - Werewolves/Shape-shifters
December - Other

If you're having trouble finding books for one of the categories, you can try these lists:
Vampires - Adult or YA
Werewolves/Shifters
Fey
Angels/Nephilim
Mermaids
Dragons
Zombies
Demons
Witches/Wizards
Ghosts
Aliens
Other (ie: unicorns, centaurs, timetravelers, seers etc.)

Be sure to grab the button for your blog!


So I pretty much just copied the text from Megan Likes Books for the purpose of getting out to my readers that have blogs who might like to join in! This year (2013) I plan on doing way better with my Challenges, I really failed at it in 2012.

I'm going to go ahead and list out my books ahead of time here. I might change them up a bit, it depends on how far I get into some of these series:

January-  No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole
February- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
March- The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
April- Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione
May- Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
June- World War Z by Max Brooks
July- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
August- Deep Betrayal by Anne Greenwood Brown
September- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
October- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
November- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
December- Forever by Jacquelyn Frank

6 comments:

  1. I'm also doing this challenge, it looks like fun!

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  2. I'm glad that I'm not the only one with a list. I haven't seen many so far and I started to wonder if I was a bit too enthusiastic :p

    Mel@thedailyprophecy.

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    1. I like lists..they always help me plan better. :P I will probably add more to it though as I think on things a bit more. I read mostly paranormal books so that won't be too difficult.

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  3. Wow. So organized. I'm just playing it by ear. I try to be spontaneous as possible even though I sign up for so many challenges.

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    1. If I don't make a list then I forget what books I'm reading what month, and I have some arcs that have to get read by March. :P

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