Book #12, 44
Well, well, well! This is the first free book I got on my Kindle that wasn't a public-domain classic. This was published only as an eBook, and it's free, so...well, you can imagine the kind of quality I was expecting. But it was actually really good.
44 is about Abby Craig, who fell through the ice of a frozen lake and died. But after 44 minutes, she "woke up" from death. No one is really sure how it happened, they're just happy she's alive, of course! But she didn't wake up whole - large chunks of memory are gone, she can't see colors, and most of her friends hate her and she doesn't know why. She's struggling in school because of the effects of being brain-dead - and entirely dead - and is just trying to get by. But then she starts having dreams - dreams of drowning in a frozen lake, which her psychiatrist says is normal, until she starts seeing other people drowning with her. And those people are turning up dead in real life. And eventually, she starts seeing who's killing them.
It's pretty intense for an epub by someone who obviously is not an old pro at this. She does a good job! Abby is a pretty great main character; I expected a lot of cliches but she seemed like a real person. There were some plot twists I didn't see coming (and some that I sort of did, but not in a bad, boring way), and the ending did manage to catch me off-guard. If you've got an e-reader and like this sort of thriller, I recommend it as a fully satisfactory free read. The second book in the series may very well be my first actual Kindle purchase! Because at $2.99, why the heck not? Also, I noticed in the reviews that book 3 comes out on Valentine's Day - supoib!
Total book count: 12/75 - 16%
Total page count: 3525/22500 - 15.7%
Up next: Reading Snow Crash and Bringing Elizabeth Home. I will probably finish the latter first, because it's a lot shorter.
44 is about Abby Craig, who fell through the ice of a frozen lake and died. But after 44 minutes, she "woke up" from death. No one is really sure how it happened, they're just happy she's alive, of course! But she didn't wake up whole - large chunks of memory are gone, she can't see colors, and most of her friends hate her and she doesn't know why. She's struggling in school because of the effects of being brain-dead - and entirely dead - and is just trying to get by. But then she starts having dreams - dreams of drowning in a frozen lake, which her psychiatrist says is normal, until she starts seeing other people drowning with her. And those people are turning up dead in real life. And eventually, she starts seeing who's killing them.
It's pretty intense for an epub by someone who obviously is not an old pro at this. She does a good job! Abby is a pretty great main character; I expected a lot of cliches but she seemed like a real person. There were some plot twists I didn't see coming (and some that I sort of did, but not in a bad, boring way), and the ending did manage to catch me off-guard. If you've got an e-reader and like this sort of thriller, I recommend it as a fully satisfactory free read. The second book in the series may very well be my first actual Kindle purchase! Because at $2.99, why the heck not? Also, I noticed in the reviews that book 3 comes out on Valentine's Day - supoib!
Total book count: 12/75 - 16%
Total page count: 3525/22500 - 15.7%
Up next: Reading Snow Crash and Bringing Elizabeth Home. I will probably finish the latter first, because it's a lot shorter.