Novel ebooks - Comic & Fantasy Reviews

by Danasha Speedin

I love the Romance app. I am an avid reader, and have three reading apps. I have iBooks and the Barnes and Noble app called Nook along with Romance. Of the three apps, I find I like the Romance app the best because it is the most intuitive. It is the easiest to annotate i.e., highlighting, entering notations (which I frequently do when I look up the definition of a word I’m unfamiliar with), and determining where you are in the book or how much more time it will take to finish a chapter. The new feature of zooming out and flipping through pages is really helpful too as well as the ability to tap the icon that will return you to your previous location.

The three things I would consider improving are: 1) when I’m reading with the screen brightness turned down because I’m reading in the dark, when I look up a definition of a word, the print is so small and dim that I can’t see it. I then have to get out of the definition, increase the brightness, and go back and highlight the word and look up the definition again; 2) sometimes the dictionary isn’t available and when I am told to download it, it won’t download, and 3) I really wish it had more colors available for highlighting the text.

by Kaory Boor

While this is my main format for reading digital books I wish there was a better way to organize them. And know which books have been read after deleting them from your device. With over 1,000 books on Novelebooks it gets rather tiresome to have to search through them all when I want to reread a book and can't remember the author or title just the cover. Along those lines it would be nice to be able to sort by series/author and have them in numerical order, I have a lot of authors who write multiple series and it's a pain trying to locate all the books in one series to read the way things are sorted. It would be nice to have the ability to have two or more readers on one account, and know which reader is where in a book. That being said I do enjoy reading on Novelebooks when I don’t have a real book. Weather your reading on a iPad of phone the pages are always formatted to the correct size. And the bookmarks transfer from one device to another.

by Parul Dane

A GREAT use of Technology. I particularly like the feature that allows you to both multicolor highlight the material and take convenient notes that are easy to retrieve and review. I don't get the gripe about no split screen to take notes on when it's so easy to take voluminous notes through the book itself and so easy to export them to your Note App. Just be sure to hit 'save' if somebody calls while you're taking notes or you'll lose what you've been working on. You can go back and finish. Better still, don't answer the call. I tend to use Novelebooks to read technical and reference material for research purposes and the 'note function' makes it very convenient for book and article writing. Of particular value are the links in some of the material that makes checking references so easy. Only gripe is that you can't order books easily from your iPhone. BRAVO for Novelebooks !

by Tahni Lebang

I use Romance a lot. My wife has her own Romance which I bought her. She reads on Romance as much if not more than I do. I also can access Romance on my iPhone. Both are great for the large number of books that I have downloaded. Some are novels, but the others are books I am reading professionally as a professor of philosophy and religion. It is wonderful to download older books at little cost. I have also read on Romance books that are barely related to my professional interests or things that peak my interest.
Romance is usually easy to navigate within a book. It also allows one to get an unfamiliar word. Overall it is a great buy. I like it better that a competitive reader which is difficult to navigate.
SECOND REVIEW: ditto to my comments above. Now have several hundred books that can also be read on my computers via the Romance app. Only wish I could figure out how to archive read books.

by Lanea Banham

As I grow older, I find my sleeping habits changing. I often wake up around 2:00am and simply take out my Romance reading myself back to sleep. I could not do this we’re it a book. One would have to use a light which would disturb my husband’s sleep. As I wear glasses I’d be uncomfortable with one of those neck/head lights one can buy and possibly never fall asleep again. Now the best part of the Romance is when reading any vocabulary one is not familiar with one can tap on it and a definition supplied there and then. If not enough one can simply go online and find the meaning, see the item and thus enrich one’s own vocabulary and knowledge base. The other aspect of Romance I love is the number of books one can carry, almost weightlessly when traveling. If I feel like reading something serious, I can. Should I become bored I can immediately find something else. No need to try and find an English bookstore in say Romania simply click on one’s saved library and enjoy. I have around 200 books on my Romance thus my library is in my handbag—what could be better?No bulky, heavy book to burden me, no confinement to that book—talk about freedom.

by Trischa Harkin

I love to read, but was resistant to e-readers. After I had to be away from home helping my elderly Mother, it became inconvenient to check out and return hard copy books to my home town library. I reluctantly loaded the Romance app and have discovered it to be more convenient and as enjoyable as reading hard copy.

I also love the definition and search functions. The search function is helpful when I need to refresh my memory about a character or incident. However, it would be better if it were possible to search for a specific word, rather than receiving results showing every word that contains the string of letters in the search request. For example, I am reading a book with a minor character named Eve. A search for the word Eve returns 1,000+ results and includes words such as even, believe, ever, everyone, everything, etc.

Overall I love Novelebooks , but would love to see the improvement in the search function.

by Keva Yuranovev

I was one of the many skeptical people who thought they never wanted to give up paper books. While paper books will always feel a need, for someone who spends a lot of time traveling internationally for work, digital media is a godsend. Endless hours in airports, on airplanes, and in cars are made much, much less tedious by always having something to read. With all the equipment that I have to schlep, I could never bring enough books and be able to carry everything. The Romance app it’s self is a thing of beauty, because it disappears into the background as I immerse myself into whatever I’m reading. In my mind that’s exactly what you want reading app to do. I love the ability to look up words, too. It’s funny, I’m so used to doing this that sometimes I will “tap” a word in a paper book expecting the definition to appear! I hope I’m not the only nut who has done that. I also love the fact that I can use a dark screen for night time.

by Nicte Merredy

I love Romance Unlimited, as I read a lot of books monthly! There’s always something to read in any category one could possibly imagine. You can download 10 at a time and return at your leisure, either as soon as you finish one or after completing all of them and then download 10 more. This has been the best app for books I have ever had! I and my family have been members for several years now and plan to continue being so! As many books as I have read through Romance, I would have otherwise had to spend thousands of dollars on buying the books (if I could have even found them) and then had to find a way to store them or donate them like I had to in the past. Romance makes suggestions for books for you based on your history, but you can always find others that you may prefer; each title also gives a brief description of book, and if you’re not sure you can download a sample of the book first. Thank you Romance for Novelebooks!

by Ahlexus Collopy

Being this book was free under Prime I wasn’t sure what to expect. As an avid psychological thriller movie/book junkie I thought I had the plot pegged 1/4 of the way through. By 1/2 way I had changed my mind and had formed another idea of where it was going. Although I may have gotten part of it correct, the ending gave a nice, unexpected twist. I read rather fast, and completed it in 2 days with intermittent reading. It’s an easy read that keeps you on edge, making the reader want to get to the truth of the story. There were times where I wanted to skip to the end to satisfy my need to know, but of course that wouldn’t have made it as enjoyable 😉

It offers a nice balance of suspense and confusion, and I found myself tearing up at the end. That was a truly unexpected bonus! When a book draws me in that well, I consider it a worthwhile read. I could see this as a movie for sure. It had that nice of a twist, but one that is also quite believable.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did 😃

by Tella Causer

Hello, my name’s Iqbal, and I’ve been using a Romance that my sister Farah gave me for a few years ago for Christmas. I wasn’t totally sold on it at first because I was used to regular paper books and newspapers, and I still do read a mixture of digital and paper reading material, but I definitely like that the Romance saves travel space for reading, and Novelebooks even more so because it means I just have to carry my phone and that’s it. The graphic for Novelebooks is a good one. I like the silhouette of a person reading under the stars. The user interface is good and is pretty close to what it’s like using a Romance. I really like that I can highlight and annotate books and look up unknown terms in a dictionary with ease as I read. That’s probably one of the nicest features. I haven’t used the color coding highlighting but I can see how that would be very useful and instructive if using Novelebooks to teach a class from personal annotations in a favorite volume. That’s all for now. Bye everyone ??⭐️?

by Guinda Potier

It took me many, many years and a new job in South Korea to finally break down and open up a Romance account (one can’t be expected to leave any new books she buys in another country when she moves back again, yet airlines tend to discourage multiple 100 pound suitcases filled with nothing but books). I love to read and I knew that it would be a lot harder to access books in foreign country. While I love feeling a book in my hands as I read, actually thumbing through pages, I realized that the thing I love most about books are the stories you find in them. I still buy books to add to my physical library but the ease and speed at which I can now enjoy new books on my Romance is amazing! I even read on my phone and iPad, too!
The short of it is, like pretty much any other app, if you end up not liking it you can just delete it and keep on keepin’ on.

by Cotter Mingus

I am a mathematician. When I am studying a book on mathematics, I prefer to use a traditional text. For almost any other type of literature, however—fiction, philosophy, or spirituality, for example—I like to do a great deal of highlighting and note-writing. Romance is perfect for either of those activities. Highlighting is a snap, with Romance’s choice of three highlighting colors giving me the power to categorize passages as interesting, important, or supremely important. Note-writing is equally convenient and effective.
Romance enhances my reading of fiction, as well. As an example of this, suppose that I’m on Page 250 of a novel when I encounter a character who, I am certain, has appeared before but about whom I’ve forgotten. All I then have to do is to search on that character’s name to be shown every spot in the book where he or she appears. In short order, I’m caught up on the character and his or her role in the story.
Romance has revolutionized my reading and studying. I recommend it to all readers.

by Shoko Kirckman

Since I have almost a thousand books in my library, I obviously love Novelebooks . I have suggested several times that they add a few features - I would love to be able to create “folders” for my books, to classify them by category - mystery, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, motivational, paranormal, romance, cookbooks! So if I want to find a paranormal in my library to read I don’t have to “hunt and peck”. Another great feature for me would be able to easily mark a book as “read” in my library not in the books I download. I remove books from my downloads once I’ve read them so I don’t eat up my storage and once they’re just in the library you lose the ability to know if you read them or not unless you download them again. Just some features to make my library more user-friendly. Last, a way to rate books in my own library so at a glance, I could look up the books I’ve already read and see that “this is one I’ll want to re-read in a while!” Pretty, please!?!?

by Anely Clinkard

I love the Romance app. No matter where I am I always have a book or magazine to read. I love that I can adjust the type to make it more readable and at night I use white type on a black background so that the light from the book isn’t overpowering.
If you come across a person or word you are t familiar with all you have to do is put your finger on it and either the definition or the Wikipedia page comes up, then tap the upper left and you are back on your page. You can also highlight things and take notes.
There are a lot of great books on Romance that are very inexpensive. My only complaint is that it’s difficult to categorize the books in Novelebooks . It can be done but I wish it was a matter of highlighting the title and dragging it over to the category. I’ve been able to get some of my books into categories but I never seem to remember what to tap and how to get the title where I want it. I’ve got hundreds of books so it’s a lot of work.
Other than that I highly recommend Novelebooks,

by Ikey Janic

Why? I can look up definitions of words by highlighting. I can search for the name of a character I have forgotten. I can bookmark an important page and return easily. If I look something up within a book, the page I left has an icon to return instantly to the original page. If I’m reading in the dark and I don’t want to disturb my partner, I can switch from white to black background. With a paper book, I have to have a light on. With a paper book I have to have a bookmark but with a Romance it opens automatically to where I left off. I can share books between my other electronic devices and the program asks me if I want to go to the furtherest page. When planning a trip I can load as many books as I think l read and only have to carry the one device. Some books are cheaper, I won’t purchase a Romance book for more than $10.

I read very few magazines or books with lots of pictures because the graphics or pictures are just too small. But that doesn’t matter with so many books to choose from..

by Leannie Kubalek

As my first short story collection of Fannie Hurst, this is an impressive compilation of the talent of Fannie Hurst. Her mastery of language in the inventive use of phrase and the deft lightness of touch brings a tone reminiscent of Vonnegut. Her saturation of the era, particularly the disenfranchised voices of diversity, of women and of the down-and-out, excels beyond anything produced by Edith Wharton. She is unafraid to strum the chords of tragedy and heartbreak. I have not enjoyed so much of an author’s body of work since encountering John Steinbeck as a teen.
The fact of her commercial success never offset her wish to be recognized as a great writer. It’s time she was a fixture on many a syllabus.
Read the stories of ‘Vertical City’ in order. Save ‘Roulette’ for the last then talk about her to a friend.
‘Lummox’ is her masterpiece. ‘Imitation of Life’ has survived through the films, but the book, beyond the brilliance of the story, has an eerily prophetic vision of the Starbucks business model.
The mystery is how she can echo the heart of her diverse characters. In the current climate of cultural appropriation phobia, Fannie Hurst makes a strong case for what a creative writer can achieve.

by Jeffery Physic

There are no other books that I love more than Linda Bridey’s. I become so captivated with each character and it’s very important to me that there’s chemistry between the characters. Wow! The chemistry is so powerful and different with each person, what an imagination the author has. I find I need to take a couple days away from reading after I finish one of Linda’s books as I reminisce about the characters and story. I can’t let go before starting the next one..... which brings more excitement!

I just finished Dawson Chronicle Book 4. Since it’s been awhile since I read this series, I appreciated it when little reminders of who certain characters were was mentioned. I also like reading clean romances, but with a little spice, just no sexual scenes. The author delivers on this very tastefully and goes the distance just enough.

I have Romance Unlimited but I purchase Linda Bridey books. If that says anything about how much I love her books. Oh boy, I’m going to search right now for any of her books that I haven’t read...... ♥️

by Zellia Viner

Well not exactly for free but almost! I joined the Romance Unlimited several months back. Let me tell you it is worth every penny, By spending $15 a month reading your favorite books has never been easier. You are able to choose up to 10 titles at a time and after you read one of those 10 books you just exchange it for another title. How easy is that? It’s like having a library card without having to worry about those pesky late fines. And by owning an IPad I can carry all to tiles with me everywhere.

My health is not good. I hurt 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I don’t leave my house so going to a library is out of the question. Reading is a wonderful friend when your have to deal with that. Reading gets my mind off of how horribleI I feel. So I can say that reading has saved my life. If you are dealing with something that has the ability of stealing your sanity, join Romance Unlimited and let a book take you on a journey into someone else’s life or read those titles that help you deal with your problems. Yes Romance Unlimited is a life saving fantastic friend.

by Aeddon Howick

I love reading since I was a child and have read thousands of books in my almost 50 years of living. I always have a book and often 2 to 3 that I read at same time. The Romance app makes it all so easy to pick up exactly where you left off and on my phone or tablet I have access to everything without the weight or bulk of paper or hardcover. I travel for business almost weekly, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday I am pretty much on a plane 36-40 weeks annually and often would read a 10-15 dollar paper back in that one day, no less than 2 a week. Having the Romance unlimited account (10$ monthly) and app has allowed me access to do much more with nothing but my phone.

The only caveat is it doesn't synch well between devices. If you don't manually synch from phone and go to tablet you must synch but it doesn't seem to find the page you last read. I cannot find in settings a Auto Synch that would do on day, opening app, but it's not a big deal and I still think it's a 5 star app, especially coupled with Romance unlimited reading subscription.

by Merlina Peaurt

I read every day, so naturally I enjoy my Romance account. It’s so handy, easy to take 20 books with me when I travel. I check my free book clubs every day, and if I find something I want to read, I easily download it with a few clicks. Same with library books. It’s easy for me, and that’s saying something for it. At the age of 81, I’m not exactly a computer whiz. It easily adjusts to the lighting and font size I want, so my eyes don’t get tired. At night, my pad rests on a pillow, a touch of a thumb turns the page. I don’t have to hold a heavy book up, or fight the crease in the middle. When I go to sleep, the book doesn’t fall and lose my place! Some people say they don’t want a screen, they have to have a real book and turn real pages. Real bookworms don’t care about appearances, they want the content, what the writer is saying. I just finished “City of Girls”. It was so well written, the characters so real. I got lost in New York in the forties, among the actors in a small dilapidated theatre. Romance is a real book....many books.