Books for the Kindle... 'Yes, I've been paid!' Edition

Every so often, I remember that I've got a Kindle... It's easier to forget than you'd think, especially when you take into account the sheer volume of physical books in my (very small) flat; a Kindle can easily get lost in all that ;o) And then every so often, I come across it and either read something off it (out of guilt, most days...) or, more likely, buy more books to put on it. And then I promptly forget about it all over again...

Not today though! I was paid yesterday so treated myself to some books  that I've had my eye on for a bit. I'm hoping that if I post something about them here, it will help me to remember to pick up the ol' Kindle, in the next couple of days or weeks, and actually read them. They all look really interesting so I don't want to leave them too long. Check out 'Sour Candy', 'Juniper' and 'The Gulp'...

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat together overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public. Some might say he spoils his son by allowing him to eat candy whenever he wants and set his own bedtimes. Some might say that such leniency is starting to take its toll on the father, given how his health has declined.

What no one knows is that Phil is a prisoner, and that up until a few weeks ago and a chance encounter at a grocery store, he had never seen the child before in his life...

Juniper is the first book in Ross Jeffery’s proposed trilogy: a post-apocalyptic horror about an insane American town seemingly at the edge of reality. As Juniper suffers from scorching drought and medieval famine, the townsfolk are forced to rely on the ‘new cattle’ for food: monstrous interbred cats kept by the oppressed Janet Lehey.

But there’s a problem: Janet’s prized ginger tom, Bucky, has gone missing, flown the coop. As Janet and her deranged ex-con husband Klein intensify their search for the hulking mongrel, Betty Davis, an old woman clinging to survival on the outskirts of Juniper, discovers something large and ginger and lying half-dead by the side of the road.

She decides to take it home…

Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.

The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.

A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there.
Teenage siblings try to cover up the death of their mother, but their plans go drastically awry.
A rock band invite four backpackers to a party at their house, where things get dangerously out of hand. A young man loses a drug shipment and his boss gives him 48 hours to make good on his mistake. Under the blinking eye of the old lighthouse, a rock fisher makes the strangest catch of his life.

Five novellas. Five descents into darkness.
Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems.

What book do you think I should read first? 'Sour Candy' is looking like it might be the one but leave a comment and let me know if any of these books looks like the one you want to hear about first.