Review Group discussion

I've added Jennifer. Please let me know if anyone sees any conflicts.

Hi everyone! Is there a spare slot? I want to join with my book No Life but Immortality https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Hi, Liudmila, please list any review conflicts you see in the first post. (Meaning, tell me if you've reviewed anyone listed in the first post, or if they have already reviewed you.)

Gene wrote: "Hi, Liudmila, please list any review conflicts you see in the first post. (Meaning, tell me if you've reviewed anyone listed in the first post, or if they have already reviewed you.)"

No. I haven't read or reviewed any of these authors and haven't received reviews from them (as far as I know). I'm fresh new on Goodreads.

Liudima, you'll need to change your profile so that you can send and receive messages.
To do that, follow this link: https://www.goodreads.com/user/edit?t...

Then scroll down until you see: "Who Can Send Me Private Messages:"
There, click "anyone"
Then scroll to the bottom and click "Save account settings".

Loralee wrote: "Liudmila, you'll need to change your profile so that you can send and receive messages.
To do that, follow this link: https://www.goodreads.com/user/edit?t...

Then scroll down until you se..."
Thanks for the info, Loralee, I've done it.

I noticed you still need one, I can enter with my book After the Walk. May I?

Link of the book I would like to present here for review

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Liudima -- welcome!
Sorry, Cecilia. It looks like Liudima fits the criteria and she signed up first. I'll get the round going in the next post. :)

We'll check now to make certain there are no conflicts, and alternates are available for those who need them.

Please tell me if you have reviewed any of the four people above you on the list (the list wraps around so (10) is 'above' (1) ). Please also check that if you have already reviewed any of the four people 'below' you on the list, they have more books available that you have not yet reviewed.

Remember you're SENDING your book to the four names above you (the list wraps so 10 is above 1) -- and you're RECEIVING books from the four names below you on the first post of the thread.

Also, reminder that this is a CLEAN round. If you've signed up and don't feel your book fits the criteria, now's the time to tell us.

Once EVERYONE confirms they're good to go, the round can begin.

Member Links * Book Links
1. Jane C.R. Reid * Allure of the Stone: Tales from the Stones, Crystals and Precious Gems
2. James W. George * The Book of Bezadiah: A Short Novella
3. Lynn Helton* The Mystery of the Spot
4. Christine Hees * Mission: Accepted!: U.S. College Admissions for International Students
5. Jennifer Reinoehl * The Baroness of Surli
6. G.J. Griffiths * Seeking Truth at Ardwick House
7. S. D. Brown * WHO PEA'D THE BED? (The Fairy Tale Bureau of Investigation
8. Liudmila Brus * No Life but Immortality: Book 1 of Geryon's Code Cycle
9. Balroop Singh * Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart
10.E.K. Frances * The Missing

Thanks, Gene. I'm good to go! :)

I'm good to go.


(When checking for conflicts, everyone please note that I also write and review as S. Lynn Helton.)

Things we'll need to sort out after the round officially starts:

I've reviewed this book of S.D.'s already and so will need a different book to read and review.

E.K. has reviewed this book of mine before and so will need a different book to read and review.

I'm good to go! :)

Looks good, thank you.

I'm good to go.

Looks good, thank you!

Looks good to me.

Good to go, Gene!

Good to go!

Looks okay to me.

Thanks, everyone. We can begin now.

Member Links * Book Links
1. Jane C.R. Reid * Allure of the Stone: Tales from the Stones, Crystals and Precious Gems
2. James W. George * The Book of Bezadiah: A Short Novella
3. Lynn Helton* The Mystery of the Spot
4. Christine Hees * Mission: Accepted!: U.S. College Admissions for International Students
5. Jennifer Reinoehl * The Baroness of Surli
6. G.J. Griffiths * Seeking Truth at Ardwick House
7. S. D. Brown * WHO PEA'D THE BED? (The Fairy Tale Bureau of Investigation
8. Liudmila Brus * No Life but Immortality: Book 1 of Geryon's Code Cycle
9. Balroop Singh * Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart
10.E.K. Frances * The Missing

START DATE: January 6, 2025
END DATE: March 31, 2025

Round 1 – post your review by January 27, 2025
Round 2 – post your review by February 17, 2025
Round 3 – post your review by March 10, 2025
Round 4 – post your review by March 31, 2025



As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

-01__Jane C.R. Reid
E.K. Frances for round 1
Balroop Singh for round 2
Liudmila Brus for round 3
S. D. Brown for round 4


-02__James W. George
Jane C.R. Reid  for round 1
E.K. Frances for round 2
Balroop Singh for round 3
Liudmila Brus for round 4

-03__Lynn Helton
James W. George for round 1
Jane C.R. Reid  for round 2
E.K. Frances for round 3
Balroop Singh for round 4

-04__ Christine Hees
Lynn Helton for round 1
James W. George for round 2
Jane C.R. Reid  for round 3
E.K. Frances for round 4

-05__ Jennifer Reinoehl
Christine Hees for round 1
Lynn Helton for round 2
James W. George for round 3
Jane C.R. Reid  for round 4

-06__ G.J. Griffiths
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 1
Christine Hees for round 2
Lynn Helton for round 3
James W. George for round 4

-07__ S. D. Brown
G.J. Griffiths for round 1
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 2
Christine Hees for round 3
Lynn Helton for round 4

-08__ Liudmila Brus
S. D. Brown for round 1
G.J. Griffiths for round 2
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 3
Christine Hees for round 4

-09__ Balroop Singh
Liudmila Brus for round 1
S. D. Brown for round 2
G.J. Griffiths for round 3
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 4

-10__ E.K. Frances
Balroop Singh for round 1
Liudmila Brus for round 2
S. D. Brown for round 3
G.J. Griffiths for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

-01__Jane C.R. Reid
James W. George  for round 1
Lynn Helton for round 2
Christine Hees for round 3
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 4

-02__James W. George
Lynn Helton for round 1
Christine Hees for round 2
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 3
 G.J. Griffiths for round 4

-03__Lynn Helton
Christine Hees for round 1
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 2
G.J. Griffiths for round 3
S. D. Brown for round 4

-04__ Christine Hees
Jennifer Reinoehl for round 1
G.J. Griffiths for round 2
S. D. Brown for round 3
Liudmila Brus for round 4

-05__ Jennifer Reinoehl
G.J. Griffiths for round 1
S. D. Brown for round 2
Liudmila Brus for round 3
Balroop Singh for round 4

-06__ G.J. Griffiths
S. D. Brown for round 1
Liudmila Brus for round 2
Balroop Singh for round 3
E.K. Frances for round 4

-07__ S. D. Brown
Liudmila Brus for round 1
Balroop Singh for round 2
E.K. Frances for round 3
Jane C.R. Reid for round 4

-08__ Liudmila Brus
Balroop Singh for round 1
E.K. Frances for round 2
Jane C.R. Reid for round 3
James W. George for round 4

-09__ Balroop Singh
E.K. Frances for round 1
Jane C.R. Reid for round 2
James W. George for round 3
Lynn Helton for round 4

-10__ E.K. Frances
Jane C.R. Reid for round 1
James W. George for round 2
Lynn Helton for round 3
Christine Hees 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 labor of love, with a lot of emphasis on the ‘labor’. 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 :)

GUIDE FOR THOSE NEW TO THESE 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.

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.

Please PM me ongoing with any issues. Thanks.

FINAL INSTRUCTIONS AND TIPS.
Some final things: Please shorten your Amazon link, removing everything after and including the letters "ref" -- that will give you a clean link that doesn't include any of your personal information.

It's important to respond to messages and send your book files as soon possible, as some reviewers read faster than others and they shouldn't be held up waiting for their review copy.

And just a tip from me -- since Amazon can take days and days to post the review, you might want to wait until the Amazon review appears, then post your Goodreads review, and post both links together in one message on this thread.

If you don't have the Goodreads and Amazon links on the same date, please do not edit your post to add the second link. I likely won't see that, so create a new post with the link.

S.D., since I've already read and reviewed Who Pea'd the Bed?, which of your books would you like me to review?

If your book is in KU, I'll borrow from there.
Thanks. Balroop.

Lynn wrote: "S.D., since I've already read and reviewed Who Pea'd the Bed?, which of your books would you like me to review?"

Through a messaging conversation with S.D., we've determined that I'll review The Lake Quilt Mystery.

My First review: The Mystery of the Spot by Lynn Helton

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R1KPSQ9...

Round 1 for me:

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

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

Balroop wrote: "My First review: The Mystery of the Spot by Lynn Helton
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R1KPSQ9..."

James wrote: "Round 1 for me:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re..."

Thank you, Balroop and James, for the reviews!

Thanks, Balroop and James.

Here is my second review - The Missing: An enthralling fantasy adventure by E.K. Frances

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R21A9K1...

My first review: The Book of Bezadiah by James W George

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

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2326...

Balroop wrote: "Here is my second review - The Missing: An enthralling fantasy adventure by E.K. Frances

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R21A9K1..."

Thanks for the review, Balroop. :)

My first review: Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart by Balroop Singh.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks to Liudmila, Balroop, and Jane.

My second review: The Missing by E.K. Frances
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I reviewed G.J. Griffiths for round 1 (Seeking Truth at Ardwick House)

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

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

Thanks, Liudmila and Jennifer.

Jennifer wrote: "I reviewed G.J. Griffiths for round 1 (Seeking Truth at Ardwick House)

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

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

Thanks for the review, and the extensive (but uninvited!) critique, Jennifer.
G.J.

Here is my first review of S.D. Brown's book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RN3ZQ...

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

G.J

Here is my third review: The Book of Bezadiah: A Short Novella
by James W. George

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2SINDY...

Thanks, GJ and Balroop.

Here is my second review for: The Mystery of the Spot by Lynn Hilton

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

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R13EC...

Jane wrote: "Here is my second review for: The Mystery of the Spot by Lynn Hilton
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R13EC..."

Thank you for the review Jane!

Here are reviews for my first two rounds. Amazon seems to be sitting on my review for my second-round book, but once it shows up, I'll post the link in a new comment.

For my round 1 book, Christine Hees's Mission: Accepted!: U.S. College Admissions for International Students...
GR: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amz: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1BL6GH...

For my round 2 book, Jennifer Reinoehl's The Baroness of Surli:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Lynn wrote: "Here are reviews for my first two rounds."

Thank you, Lynn!

Thanks, Jane and Lynn.

G.J. wrote: "Here is my first review of S.D. Brown's book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RN3ZQ...

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

G.J"
THANKS FOR THE NICE REVIEW!

I reviewed S. D. Brown for round 2: WHO PEA'D THE BED? (The Fairy Tale Bureau of Investigation)

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

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

Thank you, Jennifer.