Kiss Me I'm Irish: Hounded Read-A-Long

I had such a fun time doing the Tale of the Vampire Bride read-a-long a few months ago that I just had to do another! Unfortunately I missed Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill, but I am thrilled that March's pick to read is The first in the Iron Druid Chronicles! I've had this book on my shelf for months and this is just the excuse I needed to get started!

Questions Week 1: Chapters 1 to 5

1) Kevin Hearne had the most perfect beginning for this book:  "There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and formost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius."  If you were to live for centuries what do you think you would be excited to see?

Everything! If I had that much time on my hands I'd love to see the world! I'd see everything there is to see...monuments! World wonders! The world's largest ball of string!...Then I'd stay in one culture and watch it change over like a hundred years or so...then find a new one! Thinking ahead to centuries from now...I'd be excited to see when people started colonizing other planets...or if Planet of the Apes comes true...or when Skynet finally takes over humanity...sorry guys...I've been watching the Sci-fi channel way too much lately...

2)In the 2nd chapter we learn about the amulet and its protection powers!  Do you think having met the Morrigan and heard about Aenghus Og that it will be enough to protect Atticus?  I mean the Morrigan has a point about hot chicks coming after him and his defenses might be down! He is very male!

I think he might need to up the ante...or get a girlfriend to take that edge off ...lol. The amulet is definitely a kick ass piece of magic and I loved hearing about how much time and effort he put into it, but if it only keeps the lesser fae away then Atticus mayyy be in a bit of trouble. Morrigan got past his defenses just a tad to easily and if his enemies have anyone that is half as good of a seductress then Atticus may find himself at the wrong end of one of those broom/swords.

3) The literary world's coolest dog is introduced in this chapter!  Did you love Oberon immediately?  Show me a picture or describe the type of animal you would love to have as a talking companion! (Cat, Dog, Mouse, Sloth, Horse---what is your pick--pictures please)?

Omigod! I so totally loved him! I cannot WAIT to hear more from him, even though it took me less than 3 seconds to fall in love with him completely already :) As for who I would like as my talking companion...definitely my hairless cat Minnie! Though she'd probably be hugely sarcastic and I'd have to put sunscreen on her if she ever accompanied me anywhere out doors...she gets sunburned easily :P

4) In this chapter Flidais asked Atticus what his name is and then precedes to ask if anyone actually believes he is Greek?  He says nobody pays attention to names here.  Do you know what your name means and where it comes from?  Or do you have a name you wish had?  Let's talk names!

Well...okay....Andra is actually a nickname I've had for a while, given to me by my best friend from Leadership Safari Camp. We were sick of our "nicknames" because they were boring and everyone had the same nicknames as we did...like...kate for katelyn and alex for alexandra, etc. We figured that the other half of our names probably felt left out so we decided to call ourselves by our "not" names...thus Andra was born! (Kate's "not"name is Lyn). I admit that it started a kind of fad with our friends with Stephanie becoming Anie and Richmond becoming Mond and Alexander being Xander. And I've been Andra ever since :)

5) We learn about Atticus' lawyers in this chapter, a rather unique combo!  Without jumping ahead, would you hire a lawyer combination of two supernaturals who on the surface would appear to be natural enemies or at the very least two very Alpha attitudes? What would be the positives and negatives of that decision.

I probably would hire them :) Besides the definite advantage of having at least one lawyer around the clock, a vampire/werewolf competition would probably keep the two on the edge so that they were constantly trying to one up the other...meaning better services for you. :)

So that's the first 5 chapters! There's still time to participate! If you would like to join in the fun of this read-a-long, head on over to the Geeky Book Blogger's to sign up! You'll get the questions for the first week and here is the list of all the other participating blog hosts!

Discussion Schedule:

March 02nd: Chapters 1-5 hosted by Geeky Blogger's Book Blog

March 09th: Chapters 6-10 hosted by On a Book Bender

March 16th: Chapters 11-15 hosted by Smash Attack Reads!

March 23rd: Chapters 16-20 hosted by In the Closet With a Bibliophile

March 30th: Chapters 21-25 + epilogue hosted by The Unread Reader

April 06th: Special interview with Kevin Hearne & announcement of winners!