Has anyone read this series of book by TJ Green? An ad showed up in my Facebook feed today (imagine that!!) for a series of witchy books set in in Cornwall, England.
They appear to be available as ebooks or audio books, but you can’t just buy one at a time, so the series of audio books is more than I want to pay.
The eBooks series is $19.99 for the six books so I’m willing to pay that. I just wondered if anyone had read them yet.
Oh dear Gods, I do not need another series. LOL! I’ve bought a lot of books on sale for like two and three bucks recently and I’ve got a waiting list to read of about twenty books.
Add in my wish list and my fanfic to read list and I have enough things to read till the next century it feels like! LOL!
You’re welcome! Honestly, my first thought when you said it was a Facebook ad was that the books were AI generated I get those kind of ads on Facebook all the time for AI-generated witchcraft books that have an “author” that I can’t find literally anywhere – so, I was pleasantly surprised when I searched the author and found her actual face and YouTube channel!
It can be a big issue, but I find that most books and authors are genuine I’m just very skeptical of those big bundles for super cheap, or those that are advertised like that on Facebook that’s the skeptic in me!
I will say that, when I listened to a preview of the audio book (which I didn’t buy) I was not impressed with the narrator’s voice and even thought it might be AI generated, even though they gave her a name.
But I’m willing to give the ebooks a go, especially since, being ebooks, I can enlarge the print if I need to.
Probably not a bad thing to be a skeptic. AI generated books are real in the ‘pulp book’ market. It is especially irritating in the higher education field with student papers. They’ve gone from easily recognizable to quite sophisticated. Friends in the education biz and I often discuss this problem. Even if the book isn’t totally AI it can be outlined and filled in with AI excerpts.
Some of the book bundles are quite good, though. I bought ‘The Kutherian Gambit’ by Anderle. It was a compilation of 10 books for 99 cents. They had been published as a series 10 years ago. It was a great Sci-Fi/paranormal series.
I have gone away from audible books for a fairly long time now and with audio reading, the voice actor can make or break the book. I have ‘car’ books with voices that I like. However, there are lots of books with AI generated voices. They are usually flagged as such and are cheaper than those with professional voices. They are quite good but obviously not as good as the real thing… yet.