Kindle for Samsung Free Selections

[Froide]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

In Cold Blood - this was an easy pick. I like this genre. Besides, with 3 of the 4 choices being romance, this book would've won by default anyway. I most thoroughly hate romance!

Thanks, Monkey. I bought the same book.

[Dngrsone]

Third... hoping it's worth our time.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

In Cold Blood - this was an easy pick. I like this genre. Besides, with 3 of the 4 choices being romance, this book would've won by default anyway. I most thoroughly hate romance!

Same here, I also hate romance. And most of those don't even sound like GOOD romance. Hell, one of them has sexual harassment from a ghost...

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Same here, I also hate romance. And most of those don't even sound like GOOD romance. Hell, one of them has sexual harassment from a ghost...

Does the ghost society have an HR department you can report this ghost to?

[tubemonkey]

For those interested in the audiobook versions of this month's selections, they're $1.99 each once you acquire the ebook. See this post for details.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Does the ghost society have an HR department you can report this ghost to?

Sort of, but they call it Ghost Resources and they tend to ignore the living. So good luck filing a complaint unless you die first.

[Yolina]

I went with, erm, none... Not for the first time, there's absolutely nothing in their selection that I might even vaguely want to read

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Sort of, but they call it Ghost Resources and they tend to ignore the living. So good luck filing a complaint unless you die first.

[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that this will probably the last day to pick from one of this month's selections if you haven't already.

[Froide]

They're out! Here are the May 2016 Samsung Book Deals selections, from the Kindle store (in the order in which Amazon presented them). I researched them a bit, to identify series (if any) each belongs to and its genre(s).

Click on Samsung Book Deals to learn how this works. You may also want to read the earlier, related MR thread: Kindle for Samsung launched in 90 countries

Sweet Tea and Secrets (An Adams Grove Novel)
by Nancy Naigle
Kindle Price, normally: $3.99
Genre(s): Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Mystery & Suspense

When beloved town matriarch Pearl Clemmons dies on a warm June afternoon, the folks of Adams Grove, Virginia, can hardly believe it. Sure, Pearl was eighty-five years old, but everyone—particularly her granddaughter Jill—just assumed she would live forever. Now Jill must return home to settle Pearl’s estate, comfort a town in mourning…and face Garrett Malloy, the man who broke her heart years ago.

Making matters worse, a string of break-ins at the Clemmons place has Jill and the rest of the town on edge. She can’t imagine what Pearl possibly could have had that is worth stealing. But when Jill’s safety is threatened, she and Garrett must join forces to unearth Pearl’s secrets before someone else—someone dangerous—gets there first. Garrett may have been the last man Jill wanted to see, but now, she may not want to let him go.

Revised edition: This edition of Sweet Tea and Secrets includes editorial revisions and new scenes.

Lethal Code (A Lana Elkins Thriller)
by Thomas Waite
Kindle Price, normally $4.99
Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense (Technothriller, Thrillers>Military)

America’s worst nightmare has come true: a “cyber–Pearl Harbor” attack by unknown terrorists has crippled the nation’s power grid—and brought the land of the free to its knees. As widespread panic and violence ravage the country, its ruthless captors issue their ultimatums…and vow an apocalyptic reckoning.

A defenseless nation scrambles to fight an invisible invasion. Chief among America’s last line of defense is Lana Elkins, head of a major cyber-security company—and former top NSA operative—who returns to her roots to spearhead the Agency’s frantic efforts to combat the enemy’s onslaught on its own terms. While she and her superiors take action to infiltrate a terrorist hotbed overseas, much closer to home ruthless jihadists with a nuclear bomb hijack a busload of schoolchildren—including Lana’s daughter—and race toward a rendezvous with Armageddon in America’s greatest city.

With Lethal Code, Thomas Waite raises the international techno-thriller to dangerously exciting levels—introducing a valiant new action heroine, and initiating a series that brings a harrowing new edge of realism to sensational speculative fiction.

Sweet Tooth: A Memoir
by Tim Anderson
Kindle Price, normally $3.99
Genre(s): Non-fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Coming Out, LGBT

2015 International Book Awards Winner in Non-Fiction: Gay & Lesbian

“A gifted writer, Anderson is...delightful in his irreverence, and astutely aware of himself and his particular perspective. His observations are often laugh-out-loud funny and will leave readers with the desire to...keep turning the pages...” —Publishers Weekly review for Anderson, author of Tune in Tokyo and Sweet Tooth

What’s a sweets-loving young boy growing up gay in North Carolina in the eighties supposed to think when he’s diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? That God is punishing him, naturally.

This was, after all, when Jesse Helms was his senator, AIDS was still the boogeyman, and no one was saying, “It gets better.” And if stealing a copy of an x-rated magazine from the newsagent was a sin, then surely what the guys inside were doing to one another was much worse.

Sweet Tooth is Tim Anderson’s uproarious memoir of life after his hormones and blood sugar both went berserk at the age of fifteen. With Morrissey and The Smiths as the soundtrack, Anderson self-deprecatingly recalls love affairs with vests and donuts, first crushes, coming out, and inaugural trips to gay bars. What emerges is the story of a young man trying to build a future that won’t involve crippling loneliness or losing a foot to his disease—and maybe even one that, no matter how unpredictable, can still be pretty sweet.

A Land Divided (The Blood of Kings, Book 1)
by K.M. Ashman
Kindle Price, normally $4.99
Genres(s): Fiction, Historical fiction>European>British, Thriller

1081. William’s bloody conquest is over and Britain is under Norman rule. But one bastion of resistance remains: Wales. A divided land where brother fights brother and kings battle for power. The English use this to further their own ends, and while one king is tempted by an offer he cannot resist, the others wage war over long-forgotten feuds.

Gruffydd ap Cynan, true heir to the kingdom of Gwynedd, is in exile across the sea. When he hears of the betrayal of the Welsh people by the imposter in his throne, Gruffydd unites with Tewdwr, a monarch deposed by the traitors, and they forge an army from the ashes of their kingdoms. But Tewdwr’s wife and daughter—the source of much of the allies’ strength—are a weakness their enemies will exploit.

Betrayal, treachery and war await, but both men know they must fight to the bitter end, when the sundered lands of Wales are drenched...in the blood of kings.

[Dngrsone]

Given the choice, I think I'll take Lethal Code, though I fear I will be disappointed by the technical side of the story...

[Froide]

I eyed Lethal Code, too; I ultimately put it on my TBR list and bought A Land Divided.

[Yolina]

Slim pickings again, but went for A Land Divided

[Manabi]

I went with Lethal Code too, although frankly all of them sound bad.

[tubemonkey]

Two good genre picks for me -- Lethal Code and A Land Divided.

Which one to get...


Update: I went with A Land Divided

As much as I like technothrillers, I like European historical fic better.
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