Well this one was fun. Or headache-inducing. One or the other or both. It certainly put my Google-fu to the test since I can only remember covers from four or five months ago.

Of course I’m continuing my bleary-eyed quest to plow through my TBR pile for the read-a-thon, hosted by the wonderful Jude at In Between (seriously, she’s a nice chick, go friend her on Goodreads), and the equally wonderful Jennifer at Some Like it Paranormal (make it a party, friend them both). Somehow I’m managing to read everything except what I’m supposed to. I need Cait to crack the whip on me.

So the aptly-named Wickedly Bookish has come up with a challenge to find various covers depicting some summer items. Some of them are downright obscure, not that you’d think so. Have you ever tried to find a book with a sleeping bag on it? If someone says they know of one off of the top of their head, I’ll cry, so say it behind my back, please. I decided to go the ridiculously difficult way and try not to pick obvious books. Well, except one and that was for Cait. So here, are my picks:

One more challenge to add. I don’t think this one will be too hard to get. The pictures represent a book title.

It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it and I’m just that someone. We’ll just pretend it’s not Sunday, right? My mom doesn’t read my blog anyway.

So it’s day 2 of the Summer Wrap-Up Read-a-Thon hosted by Jennifer at Some Like it Paranormal and Jude at In Between Writing and Reading and Trini at A Book Lovers Review has devised a completely torturous challenge.

1. List a character/s that I think are HOTTER than summer
2. Add the book title and/or cover
3. Put my rating
4. Link up my review
5. Explain why I picked him

Psh, is that all? I…can’t take until the end of the year? I have to pick from books I reviewed this year? But what about J.D. Robb’s Roarke? I have to include him! And Jeaniene Frost’s Bones! *shakes fist* Why haven’t I reviewed every single book I’ve read??

3. Sig from the Secret McQueen series

My Rating:

4 Tighty Whiteys

Deep Dark Secret (Secret McQueen #3)
Keeping Secret (Secret McQueen #4)

Why Sig? It’s pretty hot that he’s an incredibly powerful 2000 year-old vampire and the head of the Tribunal. But my darling, enigmatic Scandinavian cupcake likes to wander around menacing people in nothing more than his leather pants. Sierra said she has Alexander Skarsgard in mind when she thinks of Sig and my first reaction was “eew,” but the idea has grown on me. Now I have to say that my reaction is more along the lines of, “RAWR.”

2. Lothaire from Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series

My Rating:

4 Tighty Whiteys

Lothaire (Immortals After Dark #12) by Kresley Cole

Vampires are a trend with me. I had a long list of maybes and a lot of them were bloodsuckers. Lothaire, Lothaire. He’s not your typical hero. Well, he’s not really a hero. He’s narcissistic, cruel, ruthless and a bully. He’s also dead sexy and mostly insane. When he’s gettin’ sexy, he loses it and starts talking in Russian. *oh my* I don’t even care if he’s certifiable.

1. Lucas/Landon from Easy by Tammara Webber

My Rating:

5 Tighty Whiteys with extra hearts

Easy by Tammara Webber

Landon is that thoughtful, brilliant guy you take home to meet your parents. He flirts wickedly online, his beautiful brain one of his best assets. Lucas is sex on a stick, the kind of guy that starts revving your engine the minute his eyes flick over you. Landon and Lucas are the same person, creating a perfect storm of lethal hotness, guaranteed to make a girl melt into a puddle

A nerdy brain, tattoos, a lip piercing and bedhead? Not something I’d usually go for, but he’s definitely the Hottest of the Hot this Summer.