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rhadin · 06-15-2010, 01:02 PM

Some free books are exceptionally well crafted, others you need multiple clothes pins on your nose to get through. One excellent free book is Shayne Parkinson's Sentence of Marriage, which is the first book in a quartet (the other 3 books cost $1.99 each). I reviewed it here and there was a MR thread about it (search for 10,000th download to locate the thread). Also an excellent free book is Tracy Falbe's first book in the Rhys Chronicles (the name of the book escapes me); it is available here on Mobile Read (search for the author in the E Books forum). The followup books were very reasonably priced.

But paying for a book isn't an indication that it will be good. For example, I found the new Robin Hobb Rain Wilds series to be abysmal (reviewed here).

My attitude is that if the book is free and seems to be a subject/plot that interests me, I'll give it a try. The worst that can happen is that I waste 30 minutes; the best is that I find another author I like and whose books I am willing to buy.

06-15-2010, 01:02 PM	#20
rhadin Literacy = Understanding Posts: 4,833 Karma: 59674358 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The World of Books Device: Nook, Nook Tablet	Some free books are exceptionally well crafted, others you need multiple clothes pins on your nose to get through. One excellent free book is Shayne Parkinson's Sentence of Marriage, which is the first book in a quartet (the other 3 books cost $1.99 each). I reviewed it here and there was a MR thread about it (search for 10,000th download to locate the thread). Also an excellent free book is Tracy Falbe's first book in the Rhys Chronicles (the name of the book escapes me); it is available here on Mobile Read (search for the author in the E Books forum). The followup books were very reasonably priced. But paying for a book isn't an indication that it will be good. For example, I found the new Robin Hobb Rain Wilds series to be abysmal (reviewed here). My attitude is that if the book is free and seems to be a subject/plot that interests me, I'll give it a try. The worst that can happen is that I waste 30 minutes; the best is that I find another author I like and whose books I am willing to buy.