Storysome - Completed Story

The stories are absolutely entrancing. I start one and just have to finish it. There are my apps like this , they give you a few chapters of each book for free and then you have to pay for the rest. Books can be purchased whole or by chapter and the app gives you ways to earn “ivouchers” for free as long you don’t mind spending extra time or having to wait to read. I did this for about a week and got frustrated and finally just spent the money to buy coins to purchase books. Worth it in my opinion. Many of the stores may come from young authors or inexperienced writers but that doesn’t make the stories any less. They are all (well so far) very well written as full fledged books that you may buy from any other E-book store. You may come across some grammar mistakes but they give you an option for reporting the mistake and offering readers the chance to submit a change for review. THESE BOOKS ARE NOT FREE. With everything else you pay to read their work.

This app gives you an incentive to give it 5 stars. You get to choose from 100s of amateur written stories. After reading a few chapters, you can no longer read the book unless you purchase the next chapter. You can “purchase” them for free if you earn vouchers. Vouchers can be earned by checking in everyday, you can get a bonus for checking in but if you check in less than 24 hours after you checked in the day before, you lose the bonus. You can also earn voucher by watching ads, you get 18 vouchers for watching a 30 seconds or less ad, and can watch a maximum of 3 ads. You can also earn vouchers for the amount of time you read in the app, 12 vouchers for 30 minutes and 30 for 90 minutes. Seems pretty even doesn’t it? Also each “chapter” is split into 2, 3, or 4 sections, so really you are buying sections of a chapter at a time. The sections tend to end in the most random spots, that’s how I came to realize that the chapters were spilt. If you don’t want to spend the time waiting to earn enough vouchers to “purchase” the next chapter, you can also spend actual money to buy coins and use those. Admittedly, I did this and dislike that I succumbed to it. But if you do buy coins, there’s an incentive for “topping up” where you’ll get 90 vouchers for buying 9000 coins. That means you spent close to $16 for half of a sub-par book, really not even half a book. The upside is, if you like editing, you can submit edits as you read. I found doing this drags out the time it takes me to finish a chapter and puts me closer to earning more vouchers. But once my 90 minutes are done, so am I for the day.

I downloaded this app after reading a short excerpt from an ad on Facebook. I was hooked! As I really enjoy reading these stories and don’t find paying a little more for material that I love. So I bought the whole book right there on the spot. I spent $30 on a icoin pack and downloaded the whole book. I was only maybe a quarter into the book when one day I accidentally signed into my account using Facebook. I guess they call it binding your account. My account didn’t bind. 😩 I was signed into my old account. And my coins didn’t transfer over. And the book that I paid for in full didn’t transfer neither!! So of course as I go to read my book I am met with “unlock this chapter for this many coins” pop up. 😠 Why?? I paid for the whole book! So I contacted customer support. Radio silence for at least 3 days. I finally go to see why no response.. and I see someone had written me back in a chat but I didn’t get a notification!! I wrote them back giving them the details they asked for.. nothing for another 2 days. Now I’m told it’s the wrong info. I even sent them screenshots of the full email so they could maybe find what they were looking for. Because I wasn’t seeing what they were asking for. I even just emailed ireader support and got one response and still nothing!! I just want to read the book without having to pay for it twice! Is that so much to ask for? It shouldn’t be this hard to get this straightened out. 😩😩