Free Book at Amazon, B&N, etc.

Recently, I allowed the first book in my Assassin Chronicles series to go free for a while. I was very nervous about doing so for awhile and had been thinking of doing it for over a year.
I thought that it would be counter-productive to give away a book that I had hoped to make money from sales enough for vacations and other hobbies. However, since I made it free, I have had an amazing number of downloads and this can only be good for my series in the long run. If the readers who down-loaded the free version enjoy the book and want to read more, they will surely return for the second and third books. That would be very gratifying indeed.
Of course, I also hoping for more reviews for the series, but sometimes we get what we ask for and reviewers are not always kind... even for free books.
Although I am confidently reinforced on a daily basis by my fans that the series is worth reading, I still bite my nails at the thought of receiving a new review. It is a shame that they cannot be standardized and a bit less subjective, but then they would not be so interesting, colorful and personal in content. So it is a hard call wishing for more reviews and scary. Ask any author with mixed reviews such as mine. I have 5's and I have 1's and each time I discover a new one posted somewhere, my heart beats a little faster and my blood pressure go up slightly before I read it.
Sometimes the BP soars AFTER reading one.
So I will keep my book free for awhile and see what happens.