Kindle First

[booklover6]

Ticker sounds like just the thing. I love steampunk.

[Xanthe]

Thanks for the reminder about the free book. I chose "End of Secrets". "Ticker" looked interesting, but I'm so over-and-done with authors trying to straddle the YA-adult market divide by using a 16-year-old protagonist.

[geekaren]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Ended up going with Ticker, it sounds kind of interesting.

I thought Ticker sounded interesting, too. Looking forward to reading it.

[peachiekene]

Originally Posted by Xanthe

"Ticker" looked interesting, but I'm so over-and-done with authors trying to straddle the YA-adult market divide by using a 16-year-old protagonist.

I haven't decided yet.

[NickyWithNook]

I might get Ticker because I see nothing of great interest and I think my daughter might like it.

[tubemonkey]

Last day to claim your free ebook for Nov - see post #120 for selections.

[Manabi]

This month's Kindle First selections are out, they are:

Marked (Servants of Fate Book 1) by Sarah Fine [Genre: Romantic Fantasy]

In a broken landscape carved by environmental collapse, Boston paramedic Cacia Ferry risks life and limb on the front lines of a fragile and dangerous city. What most don’t know—including her sexy new partner, Eli Margolis—is that while Cacy works to save lives, she has another job ferrying the dead to the Afterlife. Once humans are “Marked” by Fate, the powerful Ferrys are called to escort the vulnerable souls to either eternal bliss or unending fire and pain.

Unaware of Cacy’s other life, Eli finds himself as mesmerized by his fierce and beautiful partner as he is mistrustful of the influential Ferry clan led by the Charon—who happens to be Cacy’s father. Cacy, in turn, can no longer deny her intense attraction to the mysterious ex-Ranger with a haunted past. But just as their relationship heats up, an apparent hit takes the Charon before his time. Shaken to the core, Cacy pursues the rogue element who has seized the reins of Fate, only to discover that Eli has a devastating secret of his own. Not knowing whom to trust, what will Cacy have to sacrifice to protect Eli—and to make sure humanity’s future is secure?

The Last Passenger by Manel Loureiro, Andrés Alfaro [Genre: Suspense]

Reporter Kate Kilroy accepts an assignment to travel on the Valkyrie, a German ship veiled in secrecy for decades after it was discovered adrift in 1939 with only one passenger aboard, a baby boy named Isaac Feldman.

Obsessed with understanding his origins, Feldman has spent a small fortune restoring the Valkyrie to try to solve the mystery. Assembling a team of experts and sparing no expense, he aims to precisely recreate the circumstances of the Valkyrie’s doomed final voyage. Little does Feldman or his team know that the ship has an agenda of its own. As the Valkyrie begins to weave its deadly web, Kate realizes that she must not only save herself, but the world as she knows it.

Fatal Puzzle (Zons Crime Book 1) by Catherine Shepherd, Julia Knobloch [Genre: Thriller]

1495: In the peaceful medieval city of Zons, on the banks of the Rhine, a young woman is found hanging from a parapet, assaulted and mutilated. A month later, another maiden falls prey. Bastian Mühlenberg, head of the City Guard, is determined to decipher the murderer’s gruesome code, unaware that he and the woman he loves are in the killer’s sights. With the help of an old psychic, a priest, and the stars above, Mühlenberg must solve the “fatal puzzle” before it’s too late.

Present day: Journalist Emily Richter is thrilled when she’s assigned a series of articles about the historic Zons killings. However, right before her stories are to be published, a young woman’s body is found hanging from a city tower—grossly maimed and wearing a linen gown, like her medieval predecessors. Detective Oliver Bergmann leads the investigation, tapping the knowledge of the attractive young journalist. Working together—and using Mühlenberg’s old notes—they race to stay one step ahead of the copycat killer.

Guardians of the Night (A Gideon and Sirius Novel) by Alan Russell [Genre: Mystery]

As the sole members of LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles’s standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange—it might be out of this world.

Ronald “Wrong” Pauley is a homeless man long fallen from grace. When Pauley’s late-night drinking is interrupted by a detonation of light, he sees what he describes as a “being of light” in the alley below. Pauley tries to help, but ends up as a witness to what he believes is the murder of a fallen angel.

Gideon and Sirius are already in the midst of trying to determine the identity of the so-called “Reluctant Hero” who seemed to magically appear just moments after shots began ringing out at an elementary school. Braving gunfire, the hero tackled the shooter, and then disappeared.

Both cases defy easy answers, but when Pauley turns up dead, the detectives are left with two murders to solve and lots of questions. Gideon and Sirius—along with help from a newfound friend—investigate that thin line between the real and surreal to make sense of these possible crimes.

[Demingy]

Awesome! I had Marked on my wishlist (I love Sarah Fine) so of course I jumped in that.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Demingy

Awesome! I had Marked on my wishlist (I love Sarah Fine) so of course I jumped in that.

That's the one I got, too.

[Manabi]

I went with The Last Passenger. That "Nazi cruise-ship time travel" sounded intriguing.

[Jessica Lares]

Ended up getting Guardians of the Night.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Manabi

I went with The Last Passenger. That "Nazi cruise-ship time travel" sounded intriguing.

I chose that one also, but without much enthusiasm. I don't like fantasy/paranormal/supernatural elements, which they all seemed to have this time around. Kindle First isn't much of a perk; I don't think I've seen one yet that really appeals to me.

[NickyWithNook]

I'll probably go with The Last Passenger, but I'm not that into any of them.

[Jessica Lares]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't care too much about the topics either. I'm still reading my last two picks to be honest.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by Catlady

I chose that one also, but without much enthusiasm. I don't like fantasy/paranormal/supernatural elements, which they all seemed to have this time around. Kindle First isn't much of a perk; I don't think I've seen one yet that really appeals to me.

I think there's been exactly one that I was really interested in so far. (And it wasn't The Last Passenger.) There's been some months I just skipped it entirely, the selection is kind of crappy.