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Feed Your reader Kindle Giveaway
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Feed Your Reader Kindle Giveaway Celebration
Inspired Kathy from I Am A Reader, Not A Writer has launched a new site aimed at bringing you the best Kindle Ebook Deals and Steals.
Each day on feedyourreader.com you'll find a new list of available ebook deals (most for under $3).
And of course there will be lots of Featured Freebies too!
To celebrate the launch of the new site, she is giving away a Kindle Fire, Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash.
Win a 7" Kindle Fire (US only)
Or $100 Amazon.com Gift Card (International)
Or $100 in Paypal Cash (International)
1 winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7" (US Only), $100 Amazon Gift Card or $100 in Paypal Cash (International).
Friday, August 31, 2012
Victory for "Bound" by C.K. Bryant
Victory for Bound (The Crystor, #1) by C.K. Bryant
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!!! What a book! This book is like nothing I have ever read before! Magic, people transforming into animals, pet animals that can take pain away, other worlds, traveling in a blink of an eye and tragic romance (I say tragic because the girl loves the guy, the guy loves the girl, but if he gets near her, he could kill her). There was also action-packed fighting through out the book. What more could anyone ask for? It had me laughing, gasping and crying out "NNOOOOOO!!!!" Very well done indeed. I'm glad that the second book is out, so that I don't have to anxiously wait for it--though too bad the kindle price is $5. Don't get me wrong, $5 is a terrific price for a book, but when one is an unemployed, and has student loan repayment looming, even 0.99 cents is a bit on the expensive side. Just found out that my library does not have any copies of this series :( Just means that I'm going to have to hold out to enjoy the second (and hopefully by that time there will be a 3rd???) book. I cannot give this book enough praise for how excellent it is, and I very much look forward to reading the rest of the series, and anything else written by C.K. Bryant! goodreads review
Sunday, August 26, 2012
The Mystic Wolves........retry
I have just finished reading "The Mystic Wolves" by Belinda Boring. And all I have to say is this:
If I want to be honest with myself, there was just nothing to it. I mean, I loved the remix of the werewolves she spun, things like each person that is a werewolf has their soul but they also share the body with their own, unique wolf. I especially loved that the females must be pure before the mating ritual, so that she will be pure for her mate. Since dealing with this day-in-age where it seems like all the youth is having sex at such a young age, making the main characters have to wait to 'do the deed' is refreshing. Other than that I was disappointed. We learn from the book description that a trip to town will change lives forever, and we all know what that means--someone is going to die. So when a character or two goes into town, we--the readers--already have the tissues at hand; except for this death wasn't all that tragic. We hardly got to know Jasmine as a character, so her death, while sudden and violent, wasn't hard to get over. I mean, thinking over all the books I have ever read and the deaths that occur in them, I still get choked up when I think about some of them. This book had not a whole lot going for it--there was hardly any action, it moved at a snail's pace and there was a LOT of hot make-out parts; that's what the main boy/girl characters ever seem to do. If I wanted that I would have bought a hard-core romantic book, one with Fabio on the cover. This is how publishers get you: they set a book for free, so you get it (and let's be honest with ourselves, a millionaire wouldn't pass up a free book; especially one that isn't a public domain one) and then you invest your time and of course emotions into the book, the author leaves the book as a MAJOR cliff hanger specifically so that we would want the rest of the series, and the final nail in the coffin is that the publishers have the rest of the books set at retail price. And what do we do? We but them! We pay full price for something that isn't really worth the money to begin with.
If I want to be honest with myself, there was just nothing to it. I mean, I loved the remix of the werewolves she spun, things like each person that is a werewolf has their soul but they also share the body with their own, unique wolf. I especially loved that the females must be pure before the mating ritual, so that she will be pure for her mate. Since dealing with this day-in-age where it seems like all the youth is having sex at such a young age, making the main characters have to wait to 'do the deed' is refreshing. Other than that I was disappointed. We learn from the book description that a trip to town will change lives forever, and we all know what that means--someone is going to die. So when a character or two goes into town, we--the readers--already have the tissues at hand; except for this death wasn't all that tragic. We hardly got to know Jasmine as a character, so her death, while sudden and violent, wasn't hard to get over. I mean, thinking over all the books I have ever read and the deaths that occur in them, I still get choked up when I think about some of them. This book had not a whole lot going for it--there was hardly any action, it moved at a snail's pace and there was a LOT of hot make-out parts; that's what the main boy/girl characters ever seem to do. If I wanted that I would have bought a hard-core romantic book, one with Fabio on the cover. This is how publishers get you: they set a book for free, so you get it (and let's be honest with ourselves, a millionaire wouldn't pass up a free book; especially one that isn't a public domain one) and then you invest your time and of course emotions into the book, the author leaves the book as a MAJOR cliff hanger specifically so that we would want the rest of the series, and the final nail in the coffin is that the publishers have the rest of the books set at retail price. And what do we do? We but them! We pay full price for something that isn't really worth the money to begin with.
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