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Another fiction offer - The Salt Mine series
This is an offer for a series of eighteen novels in the Salt Mine series, paranormal mystery novels by Joseph Browning and Suzi Yee of Expeditious Retreat Press. The rationale is a highly secret US Detroit-based government organization defending the national interests of the USA (and occasionally the rest of the world) from the supernatural:
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SaltMine
The rationale for the series is impressively simple and non-ambiguous - from the first book: “We prevent the spread of magic,” Dot expounded. “Magic, all magic, is just shit. It always comes at a price, and the price is always greater than its benefit.”
I've read 40-odd pages of the first book and it seems to be the usual sort of adventure novel formulaic format - spend a couple of chapters dropping clues about the current problem, then bring in the characters who are going to have to deal with it, and so forth. The blurb mentions Supernatural, Grimm, Eureka, The Librarians, Warehouse 13, X-Files, Relic Hunter, and Fringe; slightly annoyed that the Destroyer series isn't mentioned, but that's just me. So far it's kept my interest enough to keep reading without deleting files, and it passes a couple of of my tests - nobody appears to be bonking vampires, and a section set in Britain has the characters talking vaguely like real Brits. It's cheap, you get 18 books for $7.95, and while it isn't exactly great literature it might be interesting enough to keep me entertained for a few hours.
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SaltMine
The rationale for the series is impressively simple and non-ambiguous - from the first book: “We prevent the spread of magic,” Dot expounded. “Magic, all magic, is just shit. It always comes at a price, and the price is always greater than its benefit.”
I've read 40-odd pages of the first book and it seems to be the usual sort of adventure novel formulaic format - spend a couple of chapters dropping clues about the current problem, then bring in the characters who are going to have to deal with it, and so forth. The blurb mentions Supernatural, Grimm, Eureka, The Librarians, Warehouse 13, X-Files, Relic Hunter, and Fringe; slightly annoyed that the Destroyer series isn't mentioned, but that's just me. So far it's kept my interest enough to keep reading without deleting files, and it passes a couple of of my tests - nobody appears to be bonking vampires, and a section set in Britain has the characters talking vaguely like real Brits. It's cheap, you get 18 books for $7.95, and while it isn't exactly great literature it might be interesting enough to keep me entertained for a few hours.