Amazon Prime Day deal bags you free books for three months including Clarkson's Farm
Indeed, ahead of Amazon Prime Day, Prime Members can enjoy 3 months of Audible for free. Members can choose one bestseller or new release each month, and it will be theirs to keep, plus they can listen all they want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and originals from July 6 to July 31. Once the three months have passed, it costs £8.99 per month to continue the subscription.
Across Audible there are a large range of audiobooks to listen to. For example, shoppers could listen in on the Sunrise on the Reaping: A Hunger Games Novel which features actor Jefferson White, who starred in Yellowstone as Jimmy Hurdstrom, as the narrator. The book follows the fiftieth annual Hunger Games as twice as many tributes are taken from their homes.
Another option is A Court of Thorns and Roses Book 1 by Sarah J. Maas, the first dramatised audiobook adaptation of the number one New York Times bestselling series. The novel is now produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music.
For the farming enthusiasts out there, there is also Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm by Jeremy Clarkson which invites listeners in to Jeremy's farming journey - along with his girlfriend Lisa, Kaleb the tractor driver, Charlie, Ellen the shepherd and his head of security and dry stone waller Gerald.
If Audible isn't everyone's choice for listening to their favourite books, they could instead try Google Play Books which has a range of both free and paid-for books, bundles and options from fiction, non-fiction and real-life stories to choose from. Spotify also has a range of Audiobooks with its Premium feature that allows up to 15 hours of audiobooks to listen to and choose from.
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However, the books on Audible have been rated highly. For example Sunrise on the Reaping: A Hunger Games Novel has got a high 4.7 out of 5 star rating on the Amazon website. One person said: "'Sunrise on the Reaping' is one of those rare prequels that deepens the original story rather than simply leaning on nostalgia. I genuinely loved this book."
Another wrote: "Sunrise on the Reaping is everything I hoped for in a Hunger Games prequel — and more. Suzanne Collins dives deep into the twisted roots of the Games, set 24 years before Katniss volunteers, and the result is equal parts chilling and fascinating."
"This book captures the emotion of the characters better than any of the other books in the series," said another listener.
However, some others didn't love all of the audiobooks. One person reviewed Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm and said: "I was expecting this to be a full narrative of the first year on the farm. Turns out it's extracts from his column in the Sunday Times which have been arranged in a sort of yearly order. No doubt there will be snippets I've not heard of before from watching the TV series, only read first few chapters, but initially I'm disappointed. "
Another wrote: "It was like watching 60 second clips of the TV series."
Prime members can get three months of free Audible books.
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