Planet iPad Daily Free Book Alert, Saturday, January 1: Thirteen Brand New Free Kindle Books to Begin 2011! plus ... <b><i> Twilight </i></b> meets <b><i> The Time Traveler's Wife </i></b> in the fascinating premier book in the <b><i> Portal Chronicles </i></b> series,<b><i> Portal,</i></b> (Today's Sponsor)
Well, 2010 was a very good Kindle year:
- "Kindle For.." apps brought the Kindle Store to a wide variety of popular devices, including the iPad and Android smartphones.
- The number of Kindle titles has grown to over 795,000, says the line at the top of the Android app for shopping the Kindle Store.
- AmazonEncore brings us more books from the world's archives of great literature.
- And AmazonCrossings knocks down the isolationist walls to bring the best literature from abroad and put it at our fingertips.
- Plus, we can now loan many of our favorite ebooks to friends electronically--at no cost!
- And what could be better than finding out that we begin 2011 with a baker's dozen of brand new freebies to add to over 200 contemporary titles in our automatically updated Free Book Alert listings?
But first, a word from ... Today's Sponsor
Take a break from holiday left-overs and put your feet up with this dazzling melange of of story, character, and time-travel. Whether you're "young adult" or "all grown up," Portal transcends genre for the perfect post-Christmas escape, and it's a bargain at just 99 cents...
Twilight meets The Time-Travelers Wife!
And you don't have to stop with Portal
because the Portal Chronicles series continues with Equilibrium 
and Quantum
.
And you don't have to stop with Portal
because the Portal Chronicles series continues with Equilibrium and Quantum.Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Loan This Book: Yes!
Loan This Book: Yes!
"I was longing for a book that I would not want to put down and get totally engrossed in the story. I found it in Portal. This gets you from the prologue and won't let go. It is a YA but I am 55 and loved it. For me it was a mixture of Time Traveler's wife with the romance of TwiLight. I loved it and will read it again. I downloaded the next one to start on right away."
. This gets you from the prologue and won't let go. It is a YA but I am 55 and loved it. For me it was a mixture of Time Traveler's wife with the romance of TwiLight. I loved it and will read it again. I downloaded the next one to start on right away." --Luv2Read, Reviewer
Here's the set-up:
Come Find Me Two Years Ago...
Six words that propelled ice hockey playing tomboy, Arizona, into an alternate dimension.
She suddenly found herself in the past. In one moment she went from being an ice hockey playing teenager in New Jersey to a glamorous cheerleader in California. She found herself transported from a happy life with her dad, Dillard, to a new, strange one living with her mother whom she hates. Apparently it's a life she's always lived in.
Everyone knows her as Arizona Darley, but she isn't. She is Arizona Stevens.
As she struggles to find answers she is certain of one thing- that her mother Olivia, a brilliant physicist, is somehow responsible. .
PORTAL
is the story of the repercussions of Olivia Darley's attempt at creating a perfect world for herself and her children. Arizona's quest for answers threatens to undermine the seemingly perfect world that her mother has so carefully constructed. PORTAL
is the first book of the Portal Chronicles
. Fans of time travel, romance, and the supernatural will enjoy Arizona's quest for answers. What the Reviewers Say
"I was in the mood to try a Sci-Fi type book and at $.99 I didn't have much to lose. Well, after reading Portal I nearly feel like I owe Imogen Rose money! This is more fantasy than science fiction as there is very little science involved. Portal is a time travel story about teenager Arizona Darley, who is transported from one reality to another. It's actually a YA book but I found it enjoyable. When I first realized that the story was going to follow Arizona rather than her mother I worried that this would be a book of teen angst. However, the "come find me two years ago" line from chapter 1 ensured I was going to finish the book! I am glad to report that I was completely wrong, Arizona isn't that kind of annoying teenage girl; she's tough and determined and she goes after what she wants. I was amazed to find that I genuinely liked the character.
"I really liked the ending. At first, the author wraps it up for you. Arizona's decision is made. I'm happy with it. Then comes the epilogue... cliff hanger! I thought that was a great way to have a cliff hanger - finish the story I've been reading and start another one. I think I read this book in 2 hours and then I immediately downloaded Equilibrium. " --Blondie, Reviewer
"I really liked the ending. At first, the author wraps it up for you. Arizona's decision is made. I'm happy with it. Then comes the epilogue... cliff hanger! I thought that was a great way to have a cliff hanger - finish the story I've been reading and start another one. I think I read this book in 2 hours and then I immediately downloaded Equilibrium. " --Blondie, Reviewer
"I wanted to find a book that was just as good or better than Twilight series, I think I just have. Imogen Rose is a wonderful writer and I know that when the rest of the world reads this book [it] is going to fall in love with all of the main character from Arizona, to Kellan. The love between Kellan and Arizona is something that all young girls and young at heart will fall in love with and want more. I just want to say that this book is amazing and will be something I would read again [and] again. ." --Photogirl08, Reviewer
The second book in the series has been rated 4.7 out of 5 stars by 27 reviewers and opens with the disappearance of Arizona Darley and her siblings. How will their mother rescue them without access to the time-travel portal she invented?
This third volume, which received an impressive 4.9 out of 5 stars from 15 reviewers, follows Arizona a year later as her life is plunged into a whirlwind ride through the unknown.
About the Author
Imogen Rose was born in a small town in Sweden and moved to London in her twenties. After obtaining a PhD in immunology from Imperial College, she moved with her family to New Jersey, where she has been based for the past ten years. Storytelling is her real passion and she is excited to be publishing, Portal, her first work of fiction.
, her first work of fiction.Click here to visit the Amazon author’s page
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