As a reader, I have a terrible tendency to search for the perfect book, which often ends in tears, suffering… and no books. I’ve since learned if I randomly put books on my kindle, I’ll read them. The end of the year always causes me problems because I love buying presents for people. I end up buying too much stuff for others. You know how it goes.

My gift to myself this year was a free book buying binge. These books are going to be on my to-be-read shelf, but I thought I’d share with you the sort of books I will be reading. If you want to play along, here are the rules.

Go to amazon. Type in a keyword, sort the books by low to high, and click ‘4* average or higher on the left hand side criteria window of the site. The idea is to get some good books–or at least books others have reviewed as good books.

Buy everything that’s free. Do this for several keywords. I did this for three: prince romance (go ahead and judge me, I wanted some romance, and I like princes), murder mystery, and paranormal mystery.

Here is a list of the books I have downloaded. Most of these were blind downloads, although I did peek at a few of the descriptions. I will be reviewing these as I read them as a Roulette Review. (A totally blind reading; all I know about the book before reading will be the cover and the title. This should be interesting.) I’ll link to the reviews (on goodreads) as I post them.

These books will be part of my Reading 2016 Book Challenge.

Irish Cottage by J. Gauvin
Executive’s Decision by B. Marie
Dark Light by SL Jennings
Queen of Someday by S Ficklin
Good Knight by S Woodbury
Third Son by E Marion
Fighting with the Infuriating Prince E Lennox
The Key by JA Davis
Heir Untamed by D Bourdon
Marcus by A Hackett
Before Midnight by J Blackstream
Picking up the Pieces by J Prince
The Prince by SA Gordon
Rae Falling by B Babylon
Played to Death by BV Lawson
Murder to Go by C Kendrick
To Kill For by AJ Carella
Hearths of Fire by K Layne
Drained by EH Reinhard
Dangerous Passage by L Harris
Stateline by D Stanton
A Cold Dark Place by T Anderson (no, not me!)
The Grave Man by D Archer
Shirley Link & the Safe Case by B Zackhein (Squee, YA mystery!)
Lamb to the Slaughter by KA Hopkins
Edgewood by K McQuestion
A Gift of Ghosts by S Wynde
Occult Assassin: Damnation Code by W Massa
Ghosts of Tsavo by V Ehsani
Forever by E Marier
Spookshow by T McGregor
Ash by J Brant
Crimson Midnight by A Cassidy
Home of the Dead by SM Adams
Girl Unseen by K Ellison
Steampunk Romance Collection by R Haven
Undraland by ME Twomey
Dark Corners by L Schulte
At Odds with Destiny Collection by Multiple Authors
Possess by JA Howell
Haunting of a Duke by C Bowlin
Hunter’s Blood (Special Edition) by M Morea