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The review group is the most successful group for peer reviews on goodreads. It hosts non-reciprocal review rounds of ten authors with a variety of themes and genres, as well as ‘general� rounds where any book is permitted, from non-fiction, to horror. When a round has ‘now forming� in the title, there are places available, you can sign up. If it doesn’t, it’s full � look for another round.

Only adult fiction involving concrete contemporary or past situations can be included. Mysteries, thrillers, action and adventures, contemporary/historical romances, literary fiction etc. No aliens, elves, vampires, stories set in the future, non-fiction or children's books.

If you are only willing to review your own preferred genre, make sure you join a genre round. Allocation is entirely random and there will NOT be any rearranging of the listing to accommodate personal preference. The ONLY circumstance in which you may duck out of giving a review is if YOU provide a stand-in reviewer.
Let’s be honest here � we don’t all like the same things but we all want reviews. The only way this group can function is if we trust each other to behave honourably. And it IS perfectly possible to give a fair-minded review of a text that does not coincide with our normal choice of reading matter. If you need a few hints/tips, please see this thread:
/topic/show/...

Now for the boring stuff, but please read it, it saves a lot of time if everyone is on the same wavelength.
Before signing up below with your goodreads author and goodreads book link in the thread below, please ensure that:
1. You have enough time to read and review 4 books within the time allowed.

2. Your book is currently available for sale on amazon (not pre-0rder) and it complies with the individual round theme, if there is one.


3. Your book is fit to be reviewed. If it is not, due to editing or other issues, you risk poor reviews.

4. You can submit reviews to goodreads, amazon.com and amazon.uk. Amazon has recently changed their criteria for reviewers to allow only those people who have spent $50 on amazon. If you are unsure about your amazon reviewer status, try posting a ‘test� review before signing up.


5. You can provide (and accept) at least PDF files. Many authors can also provide mobi and epub files. You are not expected or required to buy the books you are allocated to review. Some authors borrow books via KU and others provide smashwords coupons or gift copies. This is their choice; you do not have to accept or provide a gift. International Copyright laws apply. You cannot sell, or give away material you have received for review without the author’s express permission.

6. It is up to individual reviewers to comply with guidelines about disclaimers concerning receiving a book in exchange for a review. International laws differ, we are not the review police but this group does not contravene goodreads rules.


7. You have completed all your reviews if you are currently in another review round in this group. You can be involved in the ‘one for one� list whilst you are in a review round.

8. You have an author profile set up before you join.


9. Your goodreads profile allows people to message you, i.e. your profile is not set to private.

10. You declare any relationship you have with another member in the round. Amazon will not allow reviews from the same household on the same book or if you are an editor, relative or close friend of another member.


11. You agree to post honest reviews of the books you are allocated, whatever the star rating and try to avoid ‘spoilers�.

12. You will not ask a fellow author to change a review simply because you don’t agree with it. If you think you have a legitimate concern, talk to the mod of your round, NOT the other author. Personal attacks, or pressurising other members WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.


13. Not fulfilling your obligations to fellow group members or behaving inappropriately, will result you being blacklisted from the group and other members who have reviewed you will asked to remove their review of your book.

14. Your goodreads details and the rounds you participate in will be recorded by the admin mod on a database. We do not retain details of email addresses etc.


The founding principle of the group is honest non-reciprocal reviews, so please help maintain the integrity of the group by letting me know as you sign up if you have been reviewed by, or have reviewed another author in the group. Usually places are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
I will do my best to fit everyone into the group they request, but occasionally, particularly in the case of our more prolific members I may have to decline a member’s request in order to fit the maximum number of people into a particular round.
It is permissible to review an author more than once if a different book is available.

If you need anything clarified please ask, either by goodreads personal message to me or on the thread below, before signing up. It’s a pain to have to keep rearranging the list because people haven’t read the above.

Your group moderator will be
Noorilhuda

Member Links
1.Jonah Gibson
2.Anders Kermod
3.P. Zoro
4.Dave Clarke
5.Diana J. Febry
6.Augustine Sam
7.Laurette Long
8.Noorilhuda
9.Els Boot
10.A.E. Nasr

Book Links
1.A Cup of Pending
2.A Falling Body
3.Shadows, Darkness and Light
4.Mutual Justice
5.Who Killed Vivien Morse
6.Take Back the Memory
7.Hot Basque: A French Summer Novel 2
8.Catharsis
9.Skopelos: A narrative about a quest for Ithaca
10.Miro

I'd like to join this round.

author link: /author/show...

book link for A Cup of Pending: /book/show/3...

Welcome Jonah.

I'd like to join this round, please.

Author link /author/show...

Book link /book/show/2... (A Falling Body)

Welcome Anders

I'd like to join with Who Killed Vivien Morse? I'll add links when on-line proper in a couple of hours. Hope that's ok. Not read any of the above.

I would like to join this round please with my debut novel Mutual Justice.

Author Link /author/show...

Book Link /book/show/3...

Thanks in advance

I would like to join this review round with Take Back the Memory


Author Link: /author/show...

Book Link: /book/show/2...

Thanks

This one is filling up fast, hurry up if you want a spot people!

Emma - you're a star! Thank you! I have read one of Augustine's books but not the one listed.

I'd like to join this round please, with 'Hot Basque', not read any of the books listed above.
Author link:/author/show...
Book link: /book/show/2...
Thanks!

That's fine Diane, the order I've set up works.

Hi Laurette, its the author as well as the book that is important. The idea is that you don't review an author who has reviewed you, so that we avoid any possible accusation of bias in our reviews. I'll add your book here if you like but by the look of it it'd also fit in the romance and 18+ categories. It would just depend on what you prefer to read.

Can I get into this round please? My book is titled 'Miro'.

Author link:
/aenasr

Book link:
/book/show/3...

I should like to join this group with my book skopelos

/book/show/3...

Emma wrote: "That's fine Diane, the order I've set up works.

Hi Laurette, its the author as well as the book that is important. The idea is that you don't review an author who has reviewed you, so that we avoi..."
Thanks Emma, no, just checked again regarding the authors no clash that I can see. I understand what you're getting at regarding signing up for the romance group, so as not to read outside a particular comfort zone, but as a reader I'm pretty eclectic so would be happy to stay with this group if that's not a problem?

Your on the list Laurette, don't worry.

I'll add you now Els.

Hi Emma

I would like to join this group with "Shadows, Darkness & Light"

Link to book
/book/show/2...

Author's Page:
/author/show...

On your current list, I have reviewed Els' book.

Laurette wrote: "Emma wrote: "That's fine Diane, the order I've set up works.

Hi Laurette, its the author as well as the book that is important. The idea is that you don't review an author who has reviewed you, so..."
Thanks a lot Emma! (If you're stuck and too many people want to join this group, you can switch me to Romance, I have just re-checked the authors/books on there, the only author I know so far is Ju Ephraime, downloaded her book 'Chasing Love' but that's not one she's offering and haven't read/reviewed it anyway)

Thanks Laurette, hopefully we'll get the last member for this one soon, and it fits in with you, so we can get going.

Emma, hi, if it's okay I would like to jump in on this one - have not read anyone listed and Diana Febry reviewed 'The Governess'.

Would like to submit:
Catharsis
Noorilhuda

Here we go.

Start date: 04/10/2016
End date: 27/12/2016

post your review for round 1 by 25/10/2016
post your review for round 2 by 15/11/2016
post your review for round 3 by 06/12/2016
post your review for round 4 by 27/12/2016

As AUTHORS you send your book file to:

115-01__ Jonah Gibson
A. E. Nasr for round 1
Noorilhuda for round 2
Els Boot for round 3
Laurette Long for round 4

115-02__ Anders Kernod
Jonah Gibson for round 1
A. E. Nasr for round 2
Noorilhuda for round 3
Els Boot for round 4

115-03__ P. Zoro
Anders Kernod for round 1
Jonah Gibson for round 2
A. E. Nasr for round 3
Noorilhuda for round 4

115-04__ Dave Clarke
P. Zoro for round 1
Anders Kernod for round 2
Jonah Gibson for round 3
A. E. Nasr for round 4

115-05__ Diana Febry
Dave Clarke for round 1
P. Zoro for round 2
Anders Kernod for round 3
Jonah Gibson for round 4

115-06__ Augustine Sam
Diana Febry for round 1
Dave Clarke for round 2
P. Zoro for round 3
Anders Kernod for round 4

115-07__ Laurette Long
Augustine Sam for round 1
Diana Febry for round 2
Dave Clarke for round 3
P. Zoro for round 4

115-08__ Els Boot
Laurette Long for round 1
Augustine Sam for round 2
Diana Febry for round 3
Dave Clarke for round 4

115-09__ Noorilhuda
Els Boot for round 1
Laurette Long for round 2
Augustine Sam for round 3
Diana Febry for round 4

115-10__ A. E. Nasr
Noorilhuda for round 1
Els Boot for round 2
Laurette Long for round 3
Augustine Sam for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

115-01__ Jonah Gibson
Anders Kernod for round 1
P. Zoro for round 2
Dave Clarke for round 3
Diana Febry for round 4

115-02__ Anders Kernod
P. Zoro for round 1
Dave Clarke for round 2
Diana Febry for round 3
Augustine Sam for round 4

115-03__ P. Zoro
Dave Clarke for round 1
Diana Febry for round 2
Augustine Sam for round 3
Laurette Long for round 4

115-04__ Dave Clarke
Diana Febry for round 1
Augustine Sam for round 2
Laurette Long for round 3
Els Boot for round 4

115-05__ Diana Febry
Augustine Sam for round 1
Laurette Long for round 2
Els Boot for round 3
Noorilhuda for round 4

115-06__ Augustine Sam
Laurette Long for round 1
Els Boot for round 2
Noorilhuda for round 3
A. E. Nasr for round 4

115-07__ Laurette Long
Els Boot for round 1
Noorilhuda for round 2
A. E. Nasr for round 3
Jonah Gibson for round 4

115-08__ Els Boot
Noorilhuda for round 1
A. E. Nasr for round 2
Jonah Gibson for round 3
Anders Kernod for round 4

115-09__ Noorilhuda
A. E. Nasr for round 1
Jonah Gibson for round 2
Anders Kernod for round 3
P. Zoro for round 4

115-10__ A. E. Nasr
Jonah Gibson for round 1
Anders Kernod for round 2
P. Zoro for round 3
Dave Clarke 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 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 reviewer in a format the reviewer can manage. Everyone must be able to provide and accept PDF. 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.

When you have posted your reviews, please post the three links to your reviews, not the book page in this thread.

All reviews must be posted to GR, Amazon .com and Amazon.co.uk.

Postings to any 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). Happy reviewing, everyone :)

Thank you, Emma, for putting all that together.

Thanks Emma

You're very welcome. I hope this round is s smooth one and you all enjoy the process. The non-reciprocal rule doesn't mean members can't be friendly and helpful to each other.
Of course its up to every member, we all have different amounts of time available, but I'm sure each and every one of you would appreciate a heads up if a reviewer spots one of those pesky typos etc.
I'm always open to friend requests on goodreads. I've met 'virtually' a lot of lovely people on this group and some in the flesh.
Its a great way to gather a writing support network, people that understand what its like to be an indie author, which, for many, can be an isolated existence.

Hi, Dave Clarke: Thanks for your message, I tried to message you back but failed to persuade the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Captcha that I'm not a bot. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that you don't have to send me anything â€� I've got Mutual Justice on Kindle Unlimited and I'm looking forward to reading and reviewing it.
Best wishes,
A

Thanks Anders

I look forward to your review.

P. wrote: "Hi Emma

I would like to join this group with "Shadows, Darkness & Light"

Link to book
/book/show/2...

Author's Page:
..."

Hi Emma

I think I love being "In the World".
But I have already reviewed Els so she can't review me, isn't it?

hold on folks, I'm going to swap Els and norilhuda around on the list to keep P and Els apart.
It should make much of a difference to the rest of you.

(I blame the drugs).

OK - so wait to hear from you before start exchanging?
**** Important message for everyone esp group admins. Amazon has just announced they'll be pulling all reviews that say review in return for a free copy. Please advise admin. I never use the wording but a lot of reviewers do. Expecting more reviews to disappear as I rely mostly on book bloggers. Sigh. ****

OK - so wait to hear from you before start exchanging?
**** Important message for everyone esp group admins. Amazon has just announced they'll be pulling all reviews that say review in return for a free copy. Please advise admin. I never use the wording but a lot of reviewers do. Expecting more reviews to disappear as I rely mostly on book bloggers. Sigh. ****

The list has been updated. so we're good to go.

I'm not sure that will apply to book reviews Diana, especially as its an established practice in the publishing industry. From the article, it will apply to physical products, plugs, tables, lights etc rather than digital products.
I don't put that disclaimer in my reviews anyway, but many people are under the impression that its required by US Federal law. It isn't. They are simply guidelines.

Thanks Emma

(Is the GR server glitching today or is it me?)

Emma wrote: "The list has been updated. so we're good to go.

I'm not sure that will apply to book reviews Diana, especially as its an established practice in the publishing industry. From the article, it will ..."

Got it Emma. Thanks.

And on a side note:
As AUTHORS you send your book file to: means that the person has to send his / her book to the 4 people listed below the name.

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from: means that the person will receive books from the 4 authors listed below his / her name.

Thanks, Emma. You're a star.

Thanks very much Emma, don't know how you work it all out must be a mega headache, plus keeping up with all the new rules. So, if I've understood correctly a) the 'review in exchange for a free copy' doesn't apply to book reviews (we hope) and b) we don't have to put it on our review anyway?
Am just going to check the list of people to review/people who will review my book, I am a member of KU so can read anyone's book who is enrolled in the scheme, also Hot Basque is enrolled, so vice-versa.
Thanks, and happy reading everyone!

As I understand it, you do have to say you got the book free (if that's the case) but you don't have to add "in exchange for an honest/unbiased review". This is an Amazon requirement, not a legal one. The new rules on incentivized reviews don't apply to books, so reviews based on free review copies are still acceptable. As Emma says, this is an established practice in publishing.

As I understand it Anders, the FDA guidelines are just that, guidelines, not law. They are aimed at big business, not individuals.
You'd have more chance of being successfully prosecuted in the USA for not putting in such a disclaimer as a minor reviewer as you would winning the lottery every week for a decade. They really have bigger fish to fry.
Amazon are far more interested in paid reviews.
Its up to you whether you include the disclaimer or not. Its a personal ethical issue, not a legal one.

OK Anders thanks for that clarification. Whew. Got to keep checking...
In fact it's an advantage if we do reviews via KU, isn't it, as that counts as an ordinary 'borrow' without having to specify anything?

Emma wrote: "You'd have more chance of being successfully prosecuted in the USA for not putting in such a disclaimer as a minor reviewer as you would winning the lottery every week for a decade. They really have bigger fish to fry.
Amazon are far more interested in paid reviews."
Very good points. Thanks for that. It doesn't look like we have much to worry about.

Thanks Diana - for bringing it to the group's attention and Emma - for clearing it up. So no one needs to worry about reviews being taken down one way or the other. Happy reading everyone!

Just a heads-up to all those being reviewed by Diana Febry - a family emergency has cropped up and she'll be off-line for the next couple of weeks though she will be posting reviews as per schedule. So kindly anyone trying to reach her, she has received and sent all books she had to. And don't worry if she's not on-line.

Thanks Noorilhuda, sorry to hear about Diana, hope things get sorted for her soon.

Hi Noorilhuda

Here's the link to my Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ review of Skopelos by Els Boot, enjoyed reading it!

/review/show...

Will post the Amazon com and UK links when they notify me.

OK here are the links for Amazon com and Amazon UK for Skopelos:

Laurette wrote: "OK here are the links for Amazon com and Amazon UK for Skopelos:


"

Thank you Laurette!

Thanks Laurette.

You're welcome Els and Noorilhuda ;-)

Have read and posted reviews for Anders Kermod's innovative techno-thriller, A Falling Body.

Links: (Amazon reviews are posted under Robert Meixner.)

/review/show...

My Round 1 Review - Hot Basque

Review Links:

Amazon.com
Amazon UK
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Thanks Jonah, Augustine.