Free Book Downloads-Part 7

By Anysia | Published: August 11, 2008

This week there’s a free podiobook by Karen Marie Moning (and many more free podiobooks if fae hunters don’t excite you). And for anyone who hasn’t had the good fortune to discover it already, I point you in the direction of a library of science fiction free for the downloading.

In conjunction with Podiobooks.com, Karen Marie Moning is releasing a podiobook version of Darkfever (you can also subscribe through iTunes, be sure to pick the podiocast and not the audiobook if you want the free version). Four episodes will be released each week until the podiobook is complete. Here is my (somewhat superficial) review of Darkfever from LibraryThing that I wrote a long time ago:

I have read Moning’s other works and liked them. This new series is somewhat different in that there is less sexual content, but then who has time to have sex when you’re trying to find your sister’s killer and save the world?

Moning creates compelling characters and relationships as in her other books and I found this book just as engrossing. My only complaint is that this series (which will be 5 books when finished) ends each book abruptly. It is like the story has been arbitrarily chopped into 5 books when it should have been one or two. It keeps you primed for the next book, but it is frustrating in that it leaves you hanging at the end of each book like someone ripped the second half of the book out.

If you download Darkfever, I do have to warn you that you might end up buying Bloodfever and Faefever (out in September) just to hear the rest of the saga.

If you’re a fan of free audiobooks, don’t forget to poke around the Podiobooks.com website or subscribe to their RSS feed to get new books regularly. Sometimes you can get podiobooks for free that you can’t get a free ebook version of (all legal, I assure you). Sometimes you can even get podiobooks before the print edition hits the shelves (advance listeners editions?).

For those of you who would rather read onscreen, I point you in the direction of the Baen Free Library (if you find that interface too clunky, you can browse the Baen Free books here too). Many of you may already be familiar with it, but it’s amazing what can go unnoticed in the jungle of the Internets. The Baen Free Library is a science fiction ebook library put up by the publisher Baen.

Happy Monday! *ducks*

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