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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
My only experience with them is the Guillermo Del Toro/Chuck Hogan collab The Boy in the Iron Box (bought, but not yet read). Mostly it feels like an excuse to split a novel up into shorter parts and sell them individually for an overall greater cost. At least with a pulp magazine you would get a bundle of things within that genre. I'd have been happy if each volume also contained short stories by other authors. Buy for Del Toro, read other authors new to you. |
I havent read the series with Del Toro. Most of the series are different stories / different authors, sort of like an anthology broken up instead of a large story made into a serial - at least with a few of them. I'm sure the ones that share the same author, like the Dean Koontz, are more likely serial storyline broken up.
On the plus side, if you have Prime, they're all free, Kindle Unlimited free, and Audible if borrowed they are free audiobooks. If you chose to buy each The Boy in the Iron Box outright, at 1.99 each it comes to 11.94, which is cheaper than most publishers. I think Amazon is decently generous with these, but since they're shorts mainly only for members of a service who get them free.