My hatred for Amazon (let me count the ways) notwithstanding, I just signed up for a two month trial of Kindle Unlimited...at 99¢ per month. (After that the full price--$11.99 per month, I think--kicks in, but I plan on being gone by then. Why have I allowed myself to do this dirty deed? (Other than the fact that it was done dirt cheap, of course).
Well...it's David Estes' fault. Via this thing of beauty...
...which kept popping up on the opening page of my Kindle (the devious bastards!) The illustration got its hands in my guts and kept pulling harder every time I looked at it. So I read the free sample Amazon dangled in front of my chops.
It was a generous sample, too. 75 pages.
And I was pretty much hooked from page 1...when our young hero Roan was beaten up, kidnapped, and taken to an island reserved for plague victims. And just as I was getting caught up in that story, Monsieur Estes switched over to the story of Annise, a non-princessy Princess, and HER story was fascinating (she's a badass who doesn't want to be a sissy girl), and her father and mother were both AAAssholes, but her brother (also a badass) was with her, and he'd look out for her, but then---. Yeah. By the time we got back to Roan's story, which became even more enthralling, I was pretty sure I was going to need to buy this book. And...of course...it's the first of a five volume series. (And of course there are dragons.)
Hardcover $20.74
Paperback $13.99
Kindle $3.99
Not available at the library. Not available in Internet Archive.
And then I noticed the note "$0.00 kindleunlimited."
So I looked at the kindleunlimited prices, and chose the cheapest version. Ahmo read this book, man.
And oh, look: they have the other four books of the series (Fatemarked) here too.
Hmmmm. 🤔
ADDENDUM: April 2nd. Read to page 134. Probably going to read some more. It's a pretty compelling story 4 🏖.
