Review Group discussion

This is a general group. In joining this group you have agreed TO REVIEW ANY ALLOCATED BOOK within the set 12 week limit.
If you don’t agree to that tell me now so that I can find another member who will do so.
There is no genre filtering.

If you are only willing to review your own preferred genres then sorry, but you’re better off finding a group that specialises in your preference, or joining one of the 18+ rounds or a ‘clean’ review round. In this general group you might be asked to review fiction/non-fiction, adults’/children’s books, a religious text, BDSM, or anything in between. Allocation is entirely random and there will NOT be any rearranging of the listing to accommodate genre 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:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Your group moderator will be
Brenda Cheers

Member Links
1.Anthony Stancomb
2.Florian Armas
3.Diana J. Febry
4..Manish Grover
5.Brenda Cheers
6.Anthony Hynes
7.Carly Berg Julia black is a pen name.
8.Andrew Mowere
9.Kristian Hall
10.P.M.F. Johnson

Book Links
1.Notes from a Very Small Island
2.Io Deceneus - Journal of a Time Traveler
2.The Final Life
3.The Skeletons Of Birkbury
4.Dancing the Digital Tune: The 5 Principles of Competing in a Digital World
5.Requiem for Titus
6.The Son With Two Moms
7.Like Fine Wine: A Head-to-Toe Youth Restoring Makeover for Ladies Over Forty
8.The Final Life
9.Rise from Darkness
10.Trollen Rose

Please state if you have reviewed, or been reviewed by anyone else in the group as you sign up. I will not accept you into the group until you make this declaration.
And PLEASE don't just list everyone in the entire review group you have reviewed and has reviewed you. I really don't have time to go through possibly 20 long lists and compare the names to those in this particular group. Strange as it may seem, I do have a life outside the review group.

Dear Emma,
I'd like to join the group, and i don't know or have reviewed anyone in it.
Anthony Stancomb
Notes From a Very Small island.
Memoir/Travel
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Regards
Anthony

Hello, I would also like to join.

I am completely new here, not reviewed and never reviewed by anyone either.

Me: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

My book, the final life:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

SO excited!

And thank you for the heads up Emma!

You need to claim your author profile Anthony, at the moment you are using a 'reader' profile.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Welcome aboard both of you.

Dear Emma,
I'd like to join the group, I know Anthony, and but have not reviewed his work yet. He has reviewed mine.

Here is my info, and the book I'd like reviewed:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Thanks,
Tony Hynes

Dear Emma, I would like to join this group. As with Loralee, I have one book left to review in Group 89. In fact, it's Loralee's book. ;->

Here is my book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Here is my author profile:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

I haven't interacted with Anthony or Andrew before.

Thanks,
P M F Johnson

Hi Tony, as I only see one book under your name, and Anthony hasn't reviewed it, I assume you have another pen name?

Hi Brenda,

Trust all is well. I would like to join this group, and have not been reviewed by anyone else. I have reviewed one of your books before I think but that was many months ago.

Link to my book Dancing The Digital Tune:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I can send the reviewers a Kindle version of my book.

Regards,
Manish

Hi,

I am completely new to the Group, so I haven't been reviewed by anyone on the list. Neither have I reviewed any books on the list.

I'd very much like to join this round. :-)

Here is my author profile: Kristian Hall
And here is the book I'd like to enter into the round: Rise from Darkness

Regards,

Kristian

Welcome Kristian and Manish.

Hi I would like to join. I've had no contact with anyone listed so far.
My profile - Diana J Febry
My book - Skeletons of Birkbury If an author prefers to read one of my other books that would be fine with me.

Will try again!
Author profile - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Book - Skeletons of Birkbury
I've had no contact with anyone in the group so far.

I would like to join. No intersections with any of the writers above.

Io Deceneus - Journal of a Time Traveler

I can provide an alternate book for other authors that would join and reviewed my first book.

Hi Emma.

Here is my book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Manish and Florian have both reviewed me previously, but not this book.

Thank you!

Actually, I was in Group 86, not 89. And I have now completed all my reviews there, FYI. The last book was short (and good). ;->

After Christmas and New Year I will need to read Carly's book. LOL

We have our ten members, watch this space for the order.

Ready, steady, go!

start 01-Jan-16
end 25-Mar-16

R1 end 22-Jan-16
R2 end 12-Feb-16
R3 end 04-Mar-16
R4 end 25-Mar-16

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 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 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). I'll stay with you until your mod takes over as your group moderator. Happy reviewing, everyone :)
Please make sure you have claimed your author profile so your fellow authors can contact you.



As AUTHORS you send your book file to:

G90-01__ Anthony Stancomb
P M F Johnson for round 1
Kristian Hall for round 2
Andrew Mowere for round 3
Carly Berg for round 4

G90-02__ Florian Armas
Anthony Stancomb for round 1
P M F Johnson for round 2
Kristian Hall for round 3
Andrew Mowere for round 4

G90-03__ Diana Febry
Florian Armas for round 1
Anthony Stancomb for round 2
P M F Johnson for round 3
Kristian Hall for round 4

G90-04__ Manish Grover
Diana Febry for round 1
Florian Armas for round 2
Anthony Stancomb for round 3
P M F Johnson for round 4

G90-05__ Brenda Cheers
Manish Grover for round 1
Diana Febry for round 2
Florian Armas for round 3
Anthony Stancomb for round 4

G90-06__ Anthony Hynes
Brenda Cheers for round 1
Manish Grover for round 2
Diana Febry for round 3
Florian Armas for round 4

G90-07__ Carly Berg
Anthony Hynes for round 1
Brenda Cheers for round 2
Manish Grover for round 3
Diana Febry for round 4

G90-08__ Andrew Mowere
Carly Berg for round 1
Anthony Hynes for round 2
Brenda Cheers for round 3
Manish Grover for round 4

G90-09__ Kristian Hall
Andrew Mowere for round 1
Carly Berg for round 2
Anthony Hynes for round 3
Brenda Cheers for round 4

G90-10__ P M F Johnson
Kristian Hall for round 1
Andrew Mowere for round 2
Carly Berg for round 3
Anthony Hynes for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

G90-01__ Anthony Stancomb
Florian Armas for round 1
Diana Febry for round 2
Manish Grover for round 3
Brenda Cheers for round 4

G90-02__ Florian Armas
Diana Febry for round 1
Manish Grover for round 2
Brenda Cheers for round 3
Anthony Hynes for round 4

G90-03__ Diana Febry
Manish Grover for round 1
Brenda Cheers for round 2
Anthony Hynes for round 3
Carly Berg for round 4

G90-04__ Manish Grover
Brenda Cheers for round 1
Anthony Hynes for round 2
Carly Berg for round 3
Andrew Mowere for round 4

G90-05__ Brenda Cheers
Anthony Hynes for round 1
Carly Berg for round 2
Andrew Mowere for round 3
Kristian Hall for round 4

G90-06__ Anthony Hynes
Carly Berg for round 1
Andrew Mowere for round 2
Kristian Hall for round 3
P M F Johnson for round 4

G90-07__ Carly Berg
Andrew Mowere for round 1
Kristian Hall for round 2
P M F Johnson for round 3
Anthony Stancomb for round 4

G90-08__ Andrew Mowere
Kristian Hall for round 1
P M F Johnson for round 2
Anthony Stancomb for round 3
Florian Armas for round 4

G90-09__ Kristian Hall
P M F Johnson for round 1
Anthony Stancomb for round 2
Florian Armas for round 3
Diana Febry for round 4

G90-10__ P M F Johnson
Anthony Stancomb for round 1
Florian Armas for round 2
Diana Febry for round 3
Manish Grover for round 4

Hello everyone. Happy New Year!

I am the moderator for Group 90 and am here to answer any questions you may have.

For those that haven't done so, it is time to send your books to the four people who will be reviewing them. This is usually done in the first few days after the order is posted by Emma (as listed above).

There are some terrific books to read in this group--we're very lucky.

Enjoy!

Hello, I am having trouble reaching Anthony (stancomb) via goodreads. Could you please direct message me so I can give you my email address? A little early but that never hurt anyone.

For the following, not sure if speaking here is appropriate:

Also, I fully intend to tweet out links to the books I review (if positive reviews of course.)

Perhaps that's usual. As for my preference, it would be appreciated if people reviewing "The Final Life" who also happen to have a smashwords account, well, post a review there as well. It happens to be the book's original platform. Certainly not a demand, it would just be a very nice extra.

Hi Anthony, It looks like you haven't enabled direct messages. Please message me with your email address so I can send you my book through Amazon Kindle.

Regards,
Manish

Sorry - incompetence!
I'm at ivanaplus@hotmail.com.

Regards,
Anthony

Anthony's message link is just in a different place to normal.
If you see the boxes for Add as a Friend and Follow Reviews, to the right of those is a link, Send Message.
I used this a couple of days ago and it worked.

Here are my reviews of Like Fine Wine.

Nice book and I liked it!

I also tried to post on bn.com but the site was not working. Will try again.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R247CA6...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1583H...

Thank you Carly and Manish--a good start!

Hi Carly. I misread your email address as a gmail address, but I will resend it to your correct email now.

I haven´t heard anything from Florian yet. Could you please send me your address via Goodreads message, Florian?

Kristian

Thank you, Carly. Glad you liked Trollen Rose!

My first round review of Tony's, "The Son with Two Moms" has gone live.
Good work, Tony.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R30JXB3G...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1FJP...

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

Hi Anthony,

Can't find the question you posted so responding here. Yes, the book should automatically appear on your kindle, or you may have to click 'sync' for it to show up.

Has everyone in this group now received the four books they are reviewing?
Also, please note I will be away for four days starting tomorrow. Keep reading, reviewing and posting and I will catch up upon my return. :)

I have not yet received Diana Febry's book. She did contact me and I sent her my email, but that was a few days ago...

My review of kristian's book:

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

As for the amazons, the embarrassing truth is I'd never bought anything from there before, apparently it's a requirement. I just have and so must wait a bit (perhaps 48 hours) before posting reviews. Sorry about that.

My review of Florian's book:

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

Amazons for rise from darkness:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/rR3PK...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/review/...

Thanks for the reivew, Andrew! :)

Anthony wrote: "My review of Florian's book:

Thank you. Anthony.

Thank you for your review, Carly

I'm back from my mini-break, refreshed and relaxed.
Thank you all for your reviews.
So, just a quick check on receiving all the necessary files--P.M.F., have you received Diana's book yet?

I have, thank you!

Thanks , Carly
Anthony

Just posted reviews of Diana Febry's Skeletons of Birkbury

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

Hi,

Here are my reviews for Trollen Rose:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RQJO6...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2LUB90...

Thank you, Kristian!

Anthony, would you also post your links to the Amazon reviews? This would be appreciated.

Here's my review of Requiem for Titus: Strange Worlds Book Four. Great story Brenda.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-r...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-rev...

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

Thank you, Manish! :)

Anthony wrote: "Thanks , Carly
Anthony"

Thank you Anthony!

Here are my review. All 4 books were well produced and interesting reads.
Round 1
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/membe...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R340...
Round 2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/membe...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R3F7...
Round 3
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/member...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/RCOY...
Round 4
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/member...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R1CR...
Thank you everyone.

Thanks Diana!