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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: The Poisoned Bride and Other Judge Dee Mysteries translated by Robert H. van Gulik. A Fictionwise freebie I picked up back in 2004! I think I might have read this one before.
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A translation of a 18th Century Chinese original, it works surprisingly well as a mystery story. My edition lacks the promised translators postscript. But I'm looking forward to the authors original works based on the same characters as in these stories.
Then I started a freebie,
Unleashed by Sara Humphreys. A paranormal romance, but the paranormal is done with infodump and the author seems to have no real interest in that aspect at all. When the paranormal bit is just to explain why the two main characters are genuinely destined for each other, it's clearly not a good fantasy nor a good romance.
I decided to check out my latest freebie, from Pheonix Pick:
Adventures of Lucifer Jones, Vol. 1 by Mike Resnick. Unfortunately, after the first chapter I abandoned this too. I don't like the style, the character or the humour.
So now I'm on to
The Clan Wars Books 1&2 by Peter Morwood. Another freebie! Perhaps this one will catch my interest.