I recently found a website that offers links to free and cheap e-books on Amazon.com. I don't remember how I found it. I must have been poking around the web wondering how to get my reading expenses down. I believe I may have mentioned once or twice that since I got a Kindle, I have been forking over money to Amazon by the bucketful. That has got to stop, or at least the buckets have to be a little less full. I started trying cheap books from Amazon's 99 cent section, but that's really hit and miss. Mostly miss.
Anyhow, try out this website if you are interested in getting free ebooks: http://www.e-literati.de/
I believe the website is German, but it could be Dutch. I get those two languages mixed up sometimes when I see them in written form. I'm sure awieatti will set me straight as to which language it is, though! Anyway, it has English language books too, and links to Amazon.com. The books are usually free for 24 hours, then the price goes up. I've been trying new authors this way. I've learned to be picky and vet the books thoroughly as possible before I download them to my Kindle. I read the first few pages and I check the reviews. I'm especially interested in the three-star or less reviews because that's where you'll get honesty. I want to know ahead of time if the book has formatting or punctuation/spelling issues, or if it loses momentum or has a big, nasty, surprise, brutal rape scene hiding in the middle of the book, like what happened to me recently with a book I thoroughly regret reading, not to mention paying for. (I will review that book when I can face it again, but right now I'm too mad at the author to allow it back into my head)
One more thing: They usually show two books for each day, one in German and one in English. You have to click on the book in order to unlock the list of the other books. I didn't realize that when I was new to the site and if I wasn't interested in the first English-language book I saw on a given day and therefore didn't click on it, I missed all the others and didn't find them until the next day, by which time they had gone up in price. So even if you don't like the looks of the first book, click on it anyway, and a lot more will be revealed.
I've found a few jewels on e-literati, and I hope you will, too.
Thank you for sharing the link with us. I will definitely get many e-books there, especially the free ones! ;)
I own only one e-book. It was really funny, exciting, interesting and well-written in the beginning, but it got worse and worse towards the end. I bet half of the book consists of needless sex scenes and the plot just dies somehow. You know me, I don't mind sex scenes at all (hell no! :D ) but this was way too much even for me. I just skipped them towards the end. >.<
I've never read a book before that had such an awesome beginning and such a cheesy, crappy happy ending.
Which book was it that disappointed you? Now I'm curious! You can PM me if you don't want to say it here.
http://www.e-literati.de/ doesn't have many M/M books but sometimes one comes up. I got one for free the other day called Lenny For Your Thoughts by Anyta Sunday.I haven't read it yet, though. Too many books, not enough time!
Thanks for clearing up the language. I suspected it was German, but I've been wrong before.
Oh I can tell you here, and warn all the other readers and lurkers as well ;D It's "Feral" by Alexa Land. If you are curious and have a bit of freetime (bad joke), you might like to read the reading sample on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Feral-ebook/dp/B00C0ZVKHK/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
It's actually the best part of the story xD It's not that the author can't write (as the ratings show), the problem is more that I think she is a little too much in love with her characters and wanted nothing more than for them to be happy. So as soon as they got together, she made them love each other eternally, quickly resolved all their problems and struggles (or simply forgot about them), let them fuck each other for the rest of the book, and in the end they even married. Yes, I'm serious.
But the book was pretty cheap, so I'm not very angry at myself for buying it. xD
Oh, and I love how it says on the second page already "This book contains sexually explicit material and is only suitable for mature readers", and I read the story on the e-book-reader of my FATHER because I don't have an own one. I hope he never, ever gets the idea to read the first pages of "Feral"! He wouldn't be very happy if he knew what his beloved little daughter likes to read xD (But then again, once he even skimmed through the first volume of FAKE when I got my amazon package with all seven volumes, so he should already know what I like. I'm not sure if he saw any kissing scenes, though, but he seemed to like the story x'D )
Anyways, what was the title of the e-book with the nasty rape scene? Just that I have a warning and better don't buy that book :D
I'll check out Feral but I certainly won't buy it! Thanks for the warning. Is it still on your dad's e-reader? Is it possible to delete it?
Yeah, hehe, it's still on my dad's e-reader. I'm not sure if it's possible to delete it, but even if it is, I think I'd only arouse more suspicion if I did that xD
But I still hope it will never come to that situation :D
I read the Amazon excerpt of Feral and kind of liked it, but there wasn't any sex because the two main characters hadn't met yet. I'm really glad I had your warning, because I otherwise might have ordered it and then ended up disappointed when the plot faded into the background to make way for the sex.