I won something!

Well, look at that.  Three weeks into the year (and into my reading challenge) and I won my first book giveaway from Pixel of Ink.  For those of you who aren't familiar with POI (I wasn't until a friend tipped me off a week ago), it's a great website for people who use the Kindle e-reader.  If you friend POI on Facebook, you'll get live updates on your feed about what e-books Amazon.com has on their limited time offer or temporary free release list.  Also, they sponsor authors who run free giveaways of their books to subscribers.

I decided the other day, what the hell, might as well take a chance.  And I was one of the five winners!

The book in question is Sin and Vengeance, by C.J. West.  I don't know much about this book, because, like I said, I saw a contest and decided what the hell.  If I read it and end up hating it, well...it was free!  But there's always the chance that I read it and end up loving it!

The description of this book on Goodreads is as follows:

When his knee shatters on the playing field, Charlie Marston is plunged into turmoil. His perspective suddenly shifts from sports superstar to regular (albeit wealthy) winemaker. He enters the world of work by way of the family winemaking business. The closeness of day to day operations with his parents illuminates qualities in them that he had consciously denied until now...moreWhen his knee shatters on the playing field, Charlie Marston is plunged into turmoil. His perspective suddenly shifts from sports superstar to regular (albeit wealthy) winemaker. He enters the world of work by way of the family winemaking business. The closeness of day to day operations with his parents illuminates qualities in them that he had consciously denied until now. Soon his youthful passion seeks a new outlet to replace the football career he's lost and he finds a new friend named Randy Black. Randy is part stunt-pilot, part Casanova, and part drunken Pied Piper. Randy leads him into terrifying predicaments that become more exciting and more dangerous with each passing day. Charlie doesn't resist until an ill-conceived stunt, compounded by drunken judgment, explodes in consequences that chase Charlie and Randy back home to Massachusetts. Charlie must eventually decide where his moral boundaries should be drawn as he contends with the after-effects of a half dozen mistakes that threaten to engulf him and his family.

 

I have quite the number of books on my must-read list right now, so it will be a while before I am able to get around to this.  But it's nice to know that it's on my list, waiting for me to get to it.  Right now I'm in the middle of two books: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet (love it thus far!) and Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir by Cara Mulhan (good, but like other reviewers on Goodreads, I was hoping for more about the philosophy and action of homebirthing and midwifery than of the childhood of the author).  So a lot on my plate right now, but I can hardly complain; it's all very enjoyable!