Kindle Unlimited Free Trial TBR

After oohing and aahing after the past few months about whether Kindle Unlimited is worth the monthly subscription of £9.49 to that "gives members access to millions of eBooks, including thousands of audiobooks, news and magazine subscriptions" and is a "way to borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines. There's no due date for books borrowed, so while you are a Kindle Unlimited member, you can read and hold onto up to 20 Kindle Unlimited titles at a time until you return them.", I discovered I can have a 3 month trial to see if I actually use it and am willing to pay month for this when I have quite a lot of books on my physical/ebook/audiobook TBR as it is.

I will be honest, I need to be HEAVILY convinced on whether this will work for me, but after having a good old snoop, I got a bunch of titles that I'm hoping to get through before my three months are up. So, let's share with the class some of the titles and genres (a good mix of crime, fantasy, MM romance).

The main title that am starting with (as am currently reading it now) is A is for Alibi* by Sue Grafton (oh, heads up. If I can link these titles to bookshop.org (Affiliate links), I will try. I will put a * next to the book's title so you know). Now, been weirdly wanting to try this series out for the past few months but felt the price of ebook for this as a standalone or a bind-up of the first three in physical/ebook. So, I bought a battered boxset of the first 10 books in the series that was cheaper. These are on my physical TBR shelf. So why did I Unlimited this if I own it? I went away on holiday and I had a strict one physical book only plan. So, barring that, I kindled up and put this on my kindle. Which kinda screwed up my plan to read Priory of the Orange Tree* (Christmas?).

Another crime title on the list is Postmortem* by Patricia Cornwall. OK, I openly admit that I do not get on with this author's writing. I have tried how-many-times over the years and we don't get on. But with the new TV series coming out in the next 12ish months starring Nicola Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis, I want to try again with the first in the series. And yes, I still consider The Book of the Dead* as one of my most hatred books.

One of the pros about Kindle Unlimited I can discover is that it seems to support indie authors (most of the indie authors are in MM romance - yes, I need to read more sapphic romances, I know. Any suggestions will be HUGE help!). I keep seeing this title on my Instagram, which as been described as a "cosy fantasy" (as someone who loves fantasy, am surprised I haven't got near this subgenre): Guard in the Garden by Z.S. Diamanti. It sounds light and fun (and who's doesn't want to read something utterly delightful?)

I do have quite a few MM romances and I am planning to whizz through them as quickly as I can (these are fun, candy floss - a nice platter cleanser). This, at time of writing, ranging from KM Neuhold’s Jacked, Icebreaker by Kerry Kilpatrick and Good Pucking Luck by Riley Hart. I know there are more but these have caught my eye.. 

And, as I do love a good crime and I keep looking over the British Library Crime Classic, I do want to touch on some murdering. The titles that are on my list are the Christmas collections, the main title is A Surprise for Christmas* as well as a few others. 

I think I will leave it there at the moment, but I have a much longer mental list in my head. Like I said, I want to see if this free three month trial changes my mind over Kindle Unlimited. We shall see…