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Have fun and challenge yourself with this scavenger hunt for book lovers!

This tag was originally created Alyce @The Bumbling Book Blogger and it sound like a creative bit of fun.. turns out it was a lot more formidable than I had assumed it would be. “It’s just a book tag. This shouldn’t take long.”
Riiight.
Good luck with that.

Have to give the creator props, this little Easter egg hunt was a great distraction, and really entertaining at that! At some point(I think it was when I realized that the ‘book info’ online vs. off, is dubious at best, and grossly inaccurate at worst.) my constant stream of expressive dialogue.. caught my husband’s attention.
Then it was on.

So.. for your reading pleasure..
Here’s what our disorganized teamwork came up with.

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1. First Book in a Series

Stray

Rachel Vincent

Publication date: May 2007
Pages: 624
Genre: Romance novel, Fantasy fiction, Urban fantasy
Series: Book 1 of 5: The Shifters

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I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I’d been warned about Strays—werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female, and fertile. I fought him off but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.

This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back…for my own protection. Yeah, right. But I’m no meek kitty. I’ll take on whatever—and whoever—I have to in order to find my friends. Watch out, Strays—’cause I got claws, and I’m not afraid to use them….what I u8 I

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2. Two or More Copies of the Same Book

DarkFever

Karen Marie Moning

Publication date: September 2011
Pages: 336
Genre: Romance novel, Fantasy fiction, Paranormal romance, Urban fantasy
Series: Book 1 of 11: Fever

MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks . . . until something extraordinary happens.

When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death—a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone—Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae. . . . 

As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane—an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book—because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands. . . .

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3. Three Colors on the Cover

The Body Finder

Kimberly Derting

Publication date: February 2010
Pages: 338
Genre: Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Young adult, Mystery
Series: Book 1 of 4: Body Finder

The first book in the Body Finder series from Kimberly Derting is equal parts romance and mystery.

Sixteen-year-old Violet is hiding two secrets. The first is her confusing new feelings for her childhood best friend Jay. The second is her unusual ability to sense the dead…and the people who killed them. Violet has never considered her morbid ability to be a gift, but when a serial killer begins terrorizing her small town, Violet realizes she may be the only person who can stop him.

Ever protective of her, Jay agrees to help Violet, and as they search, Violet realizes she isn’t the only one whose emotions have changed. But as they fall in love, Violet is also getting closer and closer to discovering the killer…and becoming his prey herself.

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4. Four or More Perspectives

The Faithful

S.M. Freedman

Publication date: September 2015
Pages: 480
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller
Series: Book 1 of 2: The Faithful Series

Read my review here!

FBI agent Josh Metcalf believes he has uncovered a decades-long conspiracy involving missing children. His obsession has led him to compile hundreds of cases. All involve children rumored to have psychic abilities—and all have no witnesses, no leads, and no resolution.

Meanwhile, Rowan Wilson, a meteorite hunter for NASA’s Spaceguard Program, is losing her grip on the past. Memories of the childhood she thought she’d had are vanishing, and dark recollections of kidnappings, mind control, and an isolated mountain ranch are taking their place.

When Rowan’s shadowed past converges with Josh’s research, they uncover a deadly plot to reshape humanity. With the world’s survival dependent on stopping a vast network of conspirators, can they decipher—and expose—the truth in time?

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5. A Five Star Read

First Grave on the Right

Darynda Jones

Publication date: February 2011
Pages: 420
Genre: Romance novel, Paranormal fantasy, Mystery, Occult fiction
Series: Book 1 of 13: Charley Davidson

First Grave on the Right is the smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper.

Charley sees dead people. That’s right, she sees dead people. And it’s her job to convince them to “go into the light.” But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e., murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she’s been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life…and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely.

This is a thrilling debut novel from Darynda Jones, an exciting newcomer to the world of paranormal romantic suspense.

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6. Six (or more) Short Stories

Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales

Publication date: July 2011(this edition)
Pages: 296
Genre: Fairy tales, Fantasy, Fiction
Strandalone

Grimm), Jacob Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists and cultural researchers who collected the old folk tales and published several collections of folk- and fairy tales, called Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which subsequently became very popular.[1] Jacob also carried out academic work in philology, related to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm’s law), he was also a lawyer, his legal work, German Legal Antiquities (Deutsche Rechtsaltertümer) in 1828, made him a valuable testimony about the origin and meaning of many legal historical idioms and symbolism.[2] They can be counted along with Karl Lachmann and Georg Friedrich Benecke as founding fathers of Germanic philology and German studies. Both brothers began to compile the first German dictionary. Jacob, who was able to complete the letters A, B, C and E, died on September 20, 1863 before completing the processing of the article with the letter F and “functional”.

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7. A Seven on the Cover or Spine

Cell 7

Publication date: September 2016
Pages: 400
Genre: Science fiction, Young adult, Fantasy fiction, Dystopian
Series: Book 1 of 3: Cell 7 Trilogy

A heart-rending, thought-provoking tale of doomed romance.

A world where justice and the fate of those accused of murder is decided by the public but has moved on from the Roman Gladiator ‘thumbs up or thumbs down’ public vote to a public vote by telephone. If you are voted innocent you are set free; if you are voted guilty you are committed to death by electric chair. Those awaiting their sentence reside in ever decreasing cells, getting smaller each day, until Day Seven and Cell Seven, where they hear their fate.

Sixteen-year-old Martha has confessed to killing a famous celebrity. But has she done it? And if not, why has she claimed the murder? Perhaps she wants to show up the flawed and brutal system by sacrificing herself in the hope of a better world…. Or perhaps she is protecting somebody else….

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8. Eight Letters in the Title

Watchers

Publication date: May 2008
Pages: 404
Genre: Novel, Horror fiction, Suspense
Standalone

A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods

That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation…

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9. Book Ends on a Page Ending in a Nine

The Family Upstairs

Publication date: November 2019
Pages: 349
Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Psychological fiction
Standalone

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

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10. Ten Books in the Series

Magic Bites

Publication date: March 2009
Pages: 386
Genre: Urban fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Action and Adventure
Series: Book 1 of 10: Kate Daniels

Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate Daniels…

Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way our of her league—but she wouldn’t want it any other way…

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Okay! That was fun!

Challenge yourself with this fun tag by Alyce and see what you’re able to come up with!