Tor, they're like drug dealers in a way...

Tor Books, the publishing house, have been giving away a series of free e-books to people who subscribe to their new and doubtless extremely shiny new website thing. Which would be fine if the the majority of the books weren't the first of series, working on the same premise as drug dealers - in case you're wondering what I mean, it's the premise that the first hit is free and then once you're hooked... I probably wouldn't mind quite so much if all of the crack was good crack!

Although I'm also coming home from my travels laden with proper, paper-type books, I'd also taken a bunch of these e-books with me as well, and so far have read 6 of them (as well as re-reading Kirby Crow's excellent Scarlet and the White Wolf and Mariner's Luck, published by Torquere and a damn sight better than some of the Tor books - I must get the third of that series..). The verdict so far is mixed: ( Cut to protect the guilty... )