Review Group discussion

No clashes for me

Bianca, you are below both me and Scott, so that won't be a problem. I haven't read this book of yours yet, and so long as Scott hasn't, you should be fine.

I'm good with both everyone above and below me.

looks ok 4 me

No clash 👍

Hello,

Regarding those above me, I haven't reviewed any of S.D Brown's books but she has reviewed two of my books but not this one.
I have reviewed a book of Robbie Cheadle, but it was a different one to the one for this group.

As for those below me in the list, I have read one of Loralee's books before but not this one.

Cheers.

IT'S GOOD

E.M. wrote: "Welcome Vidhya!

Now we need to check for clashes. Please look at the four people 'above' you on the list (10 is 'above' 1) and make sure you have never reviewed them. Also, check the 4 below and i..."

Hi E.M.
Looks like the group is full now, but I was just wondering if I didn't make this round because I have a picture book? Does the reviewing not work well with picture books in the mix? I sent the message on the October 21st but wasn't added so just wondering if I should try again or look for a group that's more picture book focused?

Thanks,
Stephanie

Hi, Stephanie, I’m not the mod, so I can only infer that the reason you weren’t included is probably because you don’t have the ability to send and receive messages set up. I don’t think the reason is because your book is a picture book because I’ve seen picture books included in children’s and YA rounds before. If you look back at the rules and take a look at rule #8, it states that you need to have the ability to send and receive messages here on goodreads. The reason is because once the round starts, the individual readers need the ability to communicate with each other to give and receive PDFs etc. via email, and it’s more risky to post email addresses on a public forum like this.

Your book, Arabella and the Magic Pencil looks really good! I hope you’re able to include it in future rounds!

Loralee wrote: "Hi, Stephanie, I’m not the mod, so I can only infer that the reason you weren’t included is probably because you don’t have the ability to send and receive messages set up. I don’t think the reason..."

Thanks so much Loralee! I thought I had that set up, so will have to recheck it. That certainly makes sense and I'll come back and join when I get that straightened out. Thanks again and enjoy the round :)

No clashes for me.

So as #2 I am reviewing 1, 8, 9, and 10, yes? Looks good to me.

Looks good to go...

START DATE: 13-Nov-19

END DATE: 05-Feb-20

Round 1 – post your review by 04-Dec-19
Round 2 – post your review by 25-Dec-19
Round 3– post your review by 15 -Jan-20
Round 4 – post your review by 05-Feb-20

As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

235-01__Loralee Evans
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 1
Scott Peters for round 2
Sonal Panse for round 3
Cearúil Swords for round 4

235-02__Emily Uhlig
Loralee Evans for round 1
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 2
Scott Peters for round 3
Sonal Panse for round 4

235-03__Bianca Sierra-Luebke
Emily Uhlig for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 3
Scott Peters for round 4

235-04__ S.D. Brown
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 1
Emily Uhlig for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 4

235-05__ Robbie Cheadle
S.D. Brown for round 1
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 2
Emily Uhlig for round 3
Loralee Evans for round 4

235-06__ Vidhya V.L
Robbie Cheadle for round 1
S.D. Brown for round 2
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 3
Emily Uhlig for round 4

235-07__ Cearúil Swords
Vidhya V.L for round 1
Robbie Cheadle for round 2
S.D. Brown for round 3
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 4

235-08__ Sonal Panse
Cearúil Swords for round 1
Vidhya V.L for round 2
Robbie Cheadle for round 3
S.D. Brown for round 4

235-09__ Scott Peters
Sonal Panse for round 1
Cearúil Swords for round 2
Vidhya V.L for round 3
Robbie Cheadle for round 4

235-10__ Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
Scott Peters for round 1
Sonal Panse for round 2
Cearúil Swords for round 3
Vidhya V.L for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

235-01__Loralee Evans
Emily Uhlig for round 1
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 2
S.D. Brown for round 3
Robbie Cheadle for round 4

235-02__Emily Uhlig
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 1
S.D. Brown for round 2
Robbie Cheadle for round 3
Vidhya V.L for round 4

235-03__Bianca Sierra-Luebke
S.D. Brown for round 1
Robbie Cheadle for round 2
Vidhya V.L for round 3
Cearúil Swords for round 4

235-04__ S.D. Brown
Robbie Cheadle for round 1
Vidhya V.L for round 2
Cearúil Swords for round 3
Sonal Panse for round 4

235-05__ Robbie Cheadle
Vidhya V.L for round 1
Cearúil Swords for round 2
Sonal Panse for round 3
Scott Peters for round 4

235-06__ Vidhya V.L
Cearúil Swords for round 1
Sonal Panse for round 2
Scott Peters for round 3
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 4

235-07__ Cearúil Swords
Sonal Panse for round 1
Scott Peters for round 2
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 3
Loralee Evans for round 4

235-08__ Sonal Panse
Scott Peters for round 1
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Emily Uhlig for round 4

235-09__ Scott Peters
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Emily Uhlig for round 3
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 4

235-10__ Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
Loralee Evans for round 1
Emily Uhlig for round 2
Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 3
S.D. Brown for round 4


Please remember the commitment you are making to your fellow group members. If you pull out after the start date for any reason it is the other members who will be faced with the problem of finding a replacement, or missing out on reads/reviews, through no fault of their own. Please don’t ask the moderators to chase after replacements as we just don’t have the time.

It is the responsibility of the author to get their book to their readers in a format the reviewer can manage. Everyone must be able to provide and accept PDF. You may buy or borrow the books you are due to read if you wish, and I’m sure the author will appreciate the verified review, but IT IS NOT COMPULSORY. There are no set dates for the start of each round. You can each work at your own pace, within the limits of the round deadlines.

All reviews must be posted to GR. We also encourage members to post on Amazon. When you have posted your reviews, please post the links to each of your reviews, not the book page in this thread.
The mod of each round will record whether members have posted reviews on Amazon and for the good of all, members who persistently fail to post reviews or DNF reviews to Amazon, will find mods less than willing to add them to subsequent groups.

Postings to other sites are by agreement by both author and reviewer.

If I’ve missed something that results in you being asked to review someone who has already reviewed you, please let me know asap.

To exchange book files, my advice is to use PM to give email addresses to each other (save the chance of spammers getting your addies from this open forum).

Setting up and modding these rounds is a labour of love, with a lot of emphasis on the ‘labour’. If you want to show appreciation for all the hard work we admins put in for the group, you could download one of our books as a ‘thank you’.

Happy reviewing, everyone :)

Please read this especially if you are new to these review rounds.

Quick 'start-up' summary for anyone new who might be scratching their heads. You are reviewing the four books 'below' you on the list.

You can, of course, choose to buy any or all of the books or read the books on KU, if you are a subscriber and the books are available there. If you can buy it adds weight to your review as it gives the 'Verified Purchase' stamp on Amazon.

However, as not everyone can buy, you should PM the four people who will be reviewing you (the four above you on the original list of names) through their Goodreads author pages. Click on the down arrow beside the 'Follow Author' button under their picture and it opens a menu which will allow you to message them.

Ask what kind of file they would like or say you can only offer PDF, though unless a publisher uploaded it for you, you can always download a .mobi of your own book from Amazon.

Don't forget to ask where to send it so they can give you their email.

The four people who you are reviewing should be in touch with you in a similar way.

Please make sure you have exchanged ALL FOUR books - or have been assured by your reviewers they will buy your book or read it through KU - as soon as possible. Some people read fast and it can be very frustrating to have to wait a long time to get hold of a book you are committed to review.
Don't forget to post the links to your reviews here so you can be signed off for them.

Please post your review to Goodreads, your own Amazon store and any other Amazon stores you might have access to as well.

Trish Butler will be modding this round and should be by soon to say hello and welcome you all. PM her with any issues ongoing please.

Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight! Depending on where you are in the world.

As E.M. mentioned, I'm taking over from here (lucky lucky you!). I have a few more pointers for you if you can stand to read on just a little more before getting stuck in.

First and most importantly, thank you to E.M. for setting up this round and handing it off to me.

I'm here for questions/problems if you have any. Post here or send me a message via my profile page. Bear in mind that though I am a Brit I'm on the east coast of the US, so if I don't answer straight away, I might still be in bed! LOL
Trish Butler

Here are a few things/reminders.

Participation in these groups means being willing to write a proper review for the books you read. Whilst we don't have any set rules on such things, it is expected at the very least a review should say what was good about the book in your opinion and (unless you have given 5 stars) what you struggled with as a reader. If you feel any of your reviews might not meet this minimum, it is very easy to edit in another paragraph to be sure you are doing so.

When writing a review for others consider if you would feel satisfied by it had someone written it for you. An overly brief review can seem dismissive and disrespectful to another group member. If you are not familiar with how to write reviews please check out this post on the topic.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

General note: please be aware when posting links to Amazon in this thread, that you need to delete everything after and including the letters 'ref' in the URL. If you don't, Amazon knows anyone clicking on that link is in some way connected with you as that information is your personal account link information.

If you are a newbie, don't be afraid to ask questions. My experiences in this group are that everyone is really friendly and happy to help.

Thanks for spending a moment to read this. I hope you enjoy the experience and have fun!

Enjoy your day.

Trish

Hi Robbie,Bianca,S.D and Emily - I have put my book up on free promo on amazon on Friday - 15th Nov. Kindly download a free copy for the review!

I shall message you also on GR and you can let me know if you’d have any issues or I can send you a copy!

Thanks!

Vidhya wrote: "Hi Robbie,Bianca,S.D and Emily - I have put my book up on free promo on amazon on Friday - 15th Nov. Kindly download a free copy for the review!

I shall message you also on GR and you can let me k..."

That's a great idea and a good way to get verified purchase reviews!

T

Emily wrote: "So as #2 I am reviewing 1, 8, 9, and 10, yes? Looks good to me."

Other way around Emily. 1,8,9 and 10 are reviewing you, you are reviewing 3, 4, 5 and 6 or in other words Bianca Sierra-Luebke for round 1, S.D. Brown for round 2, Robbie Cheadle for round 3, Vidhya V.L for round 4

Just in case you hadn't worked that out from E.M.'s lists above.

Any questions just let me know.

T

I've got my first finished. A Soul In Motion

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1T8YHJ...

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Edit: I fixed the link above to show my review, not the book itself.

Thanks, Loralee,

My money was on you to be first out of the gate! lol

Don't forget it's the GR review page I need and not the book page - I found it and am putting the link below so everyone can see what I mean as we have some newbies this round.
https://www.amazon.com/review/R1T8YHJ...

Have a good one.

Trish

Hi all,

Another quick note...

The idea with these rounds is that everyone goes at their own pace, so don't worry if you see people posting reviews early. Providing you have your reviews done by each deadline you are doing just fine. FYI deadline for round 1 is December 4th

Have a great Thursday!

T

Dangit, did I post the book link, not my review link? So sorry.

I have finished Escape to Molokai.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/REXOAPJ...

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Loralee wrote: "Dangit, did I post the book link, not my review link? So sorry.

I have finished Escape to Molokai.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/REXOAPJ...

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/revi..."

Loralee,

Absolutely not a problem.

All good for Escape to Molokai - thank you!

Have a good evening.

T

I have finished Through the Nethergate. One more to go.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I have Bianca's book, and then I will be finished with this round.

Loralee wrote: "Dangit, did I post the book link, not my review link? So sorry.

I have finished Escape to Molokai.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/REXOAPJ...

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/revi..."

Thanks for the nice review!

Loralee wrote: "I have finished Through the Nethergate. One more to go.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"

Thanks, Loralee.

As speedy as always!

Have a great day.

T

Hi Cearuil and Sonal - I am yet to receive your books! I have dropped you both a message! Kindly do send them across to me!

Thanks!
Vidhya

Vidhya wrote: "Hi Cearuil and Sonal - I am yet to receive your books! I have dropped you both a message! Kindly do send them across to me!

Thanks!
Vidhya"

Everyone, please be prompt sending your books to each other. Some readers like to get through them all quickly and are fast readers. They can then move on to another group when they have completed all 4.

Vidhya - feel free to move on to a book from another on your list if you haven't already. Thanks for posting.

Cearúil and Sonal - please let me know on here or via a PM if you are experiencing any problems getting your books to the others.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Trish

I have finished Bianca’s book. The amazon review has yet to show up. I will post it when it does. For now, here is my goodreads link.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Edit: here it is.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R32HGRJ...

That concludes my four reviews. Thanks everyone!

My Round 1 Tabby Cats and Trap Doors by Loralee Evans

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2K5FXT...

My review of I escaped the world's deadliest shark attack by Scott Peters: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...

Robbie wrote: "My review of I escaped the world's deadliest shark attack by Scott Peters: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re..."
Here is the Goodreads review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Loralee wrote: "I have finished Bianca’s book. The amazon review has yet to show up. I will post it when it does. For now, here is my goodreads link.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

E..."

You are all done, Loralee.

Thank you and see you around.

Trish

Stjepan wrote: "My Round 1 Tabby Cats and Trap Doors by Loralee Evans

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2K5FXT..."

Thank you, Stjepan!

T

Robbie wrote: "Robbie wrote: "My review of I escaped the world's deadliest shark attack by Scott Peters: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re..."
Here is the Goodreads r..."

Thanks, Robbie.

Next time remember to remove 'ref' onwards from the amazon review. See post #64 above.

Cheers!

Trish

Trish wrote: "Robbie wrote: "Robbie wrote: "My review of I escaped the world's deadliest shark attack by Scott Peters: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re..."
Here is ..."

Ok, that is fine

Robbie wrote: "Trish wrote: "Robbie wrote: "Robbie wrote: "My review of I escaped the world's deadliest shark attack by Scott Peters: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re......"

Thanks, Robbie!!

Here's my review of Scott's Book -

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon - https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev...

Here's my review of Cearuil's book -

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon - https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev...

Here's my review of Sonal's book -

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon - https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev...

Here's my review of Stjepan's book -

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon - https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev...

And - I'm done with my 4 rounds! Lovely reading your books all!
Happy Reading!

Vidhya wrote: "Here's my review of Scott's Book -

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon - https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev......"

Thanks, Vidhya!

Here's my review of Stjepan's book, Joseph, the Good Giant

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2UOIJH...

Vidhya wrote: "Here's my review of Stjepan's book -

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon - https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev......"

Thank you, Vidhya :)

Scott wrote: "Here's my review of Stjepan's book, Joseph, the Good Giant

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2UOIJH..."

Thank you, Scott :)

If the reviewers need a copy of Through the Nethergate, please email me at [email protected]. I haven't been able to DM some of you.

Vidhya wrote: "Here's my review of Stjepan's book -

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon - https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev......"

Vidhya,

Thank you for all those reviews and links.

I can confirm that you are done with this group. Feel free to join another when you are ready.

Good luck!

Trish

Scott wrote: "Here's my review of Stjepan's book, Joseph, the Good Giant

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2UOIJH..."

Thanks, Scott!

Got those links.

Cheers.

Trish

Robbie wrote: "If the reviewers need a copy of Through the Nethergate, please email me at [email protected]. I haven't been able to DM some of you."

Robbie,

It's not the best idea to put your email address on these GR threads, You might find you get some spam. But I understand if you can't get through with the private messaging. Does everyone have that set up? It is a requirement of being in these groups.

Thanks.

Trish

My round 1 review of "Escape to Molokai."

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2RG3K4...

Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Bianca wrote: "My round 1 review of "Escape to Molokai."

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2RG3K4...

Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Thanks, Bianca.

A quick reminder to everyone that the first round reviews are due in ten days. (Dec. 4th)

For those over here in the US have a great Thanksgiving - no matter how you celebrate (or even if you don't). For everyone else, have a great week! :D

Trish