Review Group discussion

NB There are currently two general groups looking for members.

This is a general group. In joining this group you have agreed TO REVIEW ANY ALLOCATED BOOK within the set 12 week limit.
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/...
Do not sign up until you have completed all your reviews in another review round in the group.

Make sure you have an author profile set up before you join and that your book is available for sale on amazon (not pre-0rder).

Please let me know as you sign up if you have been reviewed by, or have reviewed another author in the group. It is permissible to review an author more than once if a different book is available, but reciprocal reviews within the group are strictly prohibited.

Your group moderator will be
Chance Maree

Member Links
1.Chance Maree
2.Darrell B. Nelson
3.J.B. Trepagnier
4.Charles Freedom Long
5.Chrys Cymri
6.Noorilhuda
7.Kristian Hall
8.T.S. Creager
9.Elizabeth St.John
10.Bruce M. Perrin

Book Links
1.Undazzled
2.Dymon's Lair
3.Midnight's Sonata
4.Dancing With The Dead
5.The Judas Disciple
6.The Governess
7.Rise from Darkness: How to Overcome Depression through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Positive Psychology: Paths Out of Depression Toward Happiness
8.The End of Time: A Fabulous Narrative - Volume I: From Waterloo to Meridian
9.The Lady of the Tower
10.Half A Mind

Thanks for setting up the group, Emma.

Chance Maree

Undazzled

Thanks for letting me know.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
My book is Dymon's Lair
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Looking forward to another round.

I would like to be added. My book is Midnight's Sonata
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Thanks for setting up the group, Emma. Deep breath before diving off the high board. . . I would like to enter.

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


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

Welcome aboard J.B and Charles.

Please remember to let me know if you have reviewed or been reviewed by anyone else in this particular round so I can avoid setting up reciprocal reviews when I sort the order out.

I've finished my other review rounds so I'd like to join with 'The Judas Disciple:

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

One of my earlier books, 'The Dragon Throne', was reviewed by Chance Maree. Otherwise I have no connections with any of those who have signed up by this point.

Welcome Chrys.

Emma, thanks for setting up the group. Would like to submit The Governess.

Darrel B. Nelson has reviewed 'Catharsis' (my other book) and I've reviewed Chance Maree's Dark Matter Tiding.

Welcome aboard Noorilhulda.

Thanks Emma.

Hi Emma, I'd love to join again with City on Clouds

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Chance Maree and Chrys Cymri have already reviewed it, but Chrys might be interested in reviewing my other novel, A Parallel Path, and I would really welcome his professional opinion on it ;)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Marco, fitting you in here will be almost impossible, can you sign up to the other general group that is forming, group 99?

Hi,

Please add my book Rise from Darkness

I've completed my reviews in other review groups I have recently been a member of. I haven't reviewed or been reviewed by other members of this group.

Welcome aboard Kristian.

I'd like to sign up.

T.S. Creager

The End of Time: A Fabulous Narrative - Volume I: From Waterloo to Meridian

Welcome T.S.

Hi Emma
Would like to submit The Lady of the Tower. Thanks!

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

Hi Emma,

I think you still have one slot. If so, I'd like to join with

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

Thanks,
Bruce

Emma wrote: "Welcome aboard J.B and Charles.

Please remember to let me know if you have reviewed or been reviewed by anyone else in this particular round so I can avoid setting up reciprocal reviews when I sor..."

I have not been reviewed by or reviewed anyone in this group so far.

Same for me - have not reviewed or been reviewed by anyone in this group.

Me too - I mean me neither!

Ok, we have our ten, I'll set up the order ASAP.

START DATE:15-Feb-16

END DATE:09-May-16

Round 1 – post your review by 07-Mar-16
Round 2 – post your review by 28-Mar-16
Round 3 – post your review by 18-Apr-16
Round 4 – post your review by 09-May-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 :)



As AUTHORS you send your book file to:

G96-01__ Chance Maree
Bruce M, Perrin for round 1
Elizabeth St John for round 2
T. S. Creager for round 3
Kristian Hall for round 4

G96-02__ Darrell B Nelson
Chance Maree for round 1
Bruce M, Perrin for round 2
Elizabeth St John for round 3
T. S. Creager for round 4

G96-03__ J. B. Trepagnier
Darrell B Nelson for round 1
Chance Maree for round 2
Bruce M, Perrin for round 3
Elizabeth St John for round 4

G96-04__ Charles Freedom Long
J. B. Trepagnier for round 1
Darrell B Nelson for round 2
Chance Maree for round 3
Bruce M, Perrin for round 4

G96-05__ Chrys Cymri
Charles Freedom Long for round 1
J. B. Trepagnier for round 2
Darrell B Nelson for round 3
Chance Maree for round 4

G96-06__ Noorilhuda
Chrys Cymri for round 1
Charles Freedom Long for round 2
J. B. Trepagnier for round 3
Darrell B Nelson for round 4

G96-07__ Kristian Hall
Noorilhuda for round 1
Chrys Cymri for round 2
Charles Freedom Long for round 3
J. B. Trepagnier for round 4

G96-08__ T. S. Creager
Kristian Hall for round 1
Noorilhuda for round 2
Chrys Cymri for round 3
Charles Freedom Long for round 4

G96-09__ Elizabeth St John
T. S. Creager for round 1
Kristian Hall for round 2
Noorilhuda for round 3
Chrys Cymri for round 4

G96-10__ Bruce M, Perrin
Elizabeth St John for round 1
T. S. Creager for round 2
Kristian Hall for round 3
Noorilhuda for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

G96-01__ Chance Maree
Darrell B Nelson for round 1
J. B. Trepagnier for round 2
Charles Freedom Long for round 3
Chrys Cymri for round 4

G96-02__ Darrell B Nelson
J. B. Trepagnier for round 1
Charles Freedom Long for round 2
Chrys Cymri for round 3
Noorilhuda for round 4

G96-03__ J. B. Trepagnier
Charles Freedom Long for round 1
Chrys Cymri for round 2
Noorilhuda for round 3
Kristian Hall for round 4

G96-04__ Charles Freedom Long
Chrys Cymri for round 1
Noorilhuda for round 2
Kristian Hall for round 3
T. S. Creager for round 4

G96-05__ Chrys Cymri
Noorilhuda for round 1
Kristian Hall for round 2
T. S. Creager for round 3
Elizabeth St John for round 4

G96-06__ Noorilhuda
Kristian Hall for round 1
T. S. Creager for round 2
Elizabeth St John for round 3
Bruce M, Perrin for round 4

G96-07__ Kristian Hall
T. S. Creager for round 1
Elizabeth St John for round 2
Bruce M, Perrin for round 3
Chance Maree for round 4

G96-08__ T. S. Creager
Elizabeth St John for round 1
Bruce M, Perrin for round 2
Chance Maree for round 3
Darrell B Nelson for round 4

G96-09__ Elizabeth St John
Bruce M, Perrin for round 1
Chance Maree for round 2
Darrell B Nelson for round 3
J. B. Trepagnier for round 4

G96-10__ Bruce M, Perrin
Chance Maree for round 1
Darrell B Nelson for round 2
J. B. Trepagnier for round 3
Charles Freedom Long for round 4

Thanks so much Emma, and I really appreciate all the effort you put into setting this up. Really looking forward to reading and reviewing a diverse collection of work.

Darrell B Nelson for round 2

Darrell,

I do not see a 'send message' option under your Author profile on Goodreads, so I am just using the group forum to contact you to receive your book.

If possible, please send the book in Kindle format (Mobi). If that is not possible, ePub is my second choice. And PDF is OK, if neither of those options work for you.

Please send the book to BMPerrinAuthor@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Bruce

Bruce,
I'll send it out tomorrow.
On my way to a dentist app right now.

To make it easier for everyone, I used my free promotional days for tomorrow and Wednesday.
http://www.amazon.com/Dymons-Lair-Dar...

Hi Darrell

I couldn't find the 'send message' under your author details either.

Could you let me know your email address so I can send you my book, 'The Judas Disciple'? I can offer Mobi or pdf.

Chrys Cymri

@Darrell, there's a messaging glitch on your author page. Anyways, this is to let you know that you can download the kindle version of my book from Amazon - it's free right now:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MF8BJQE
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MF8BJQE

I've sent the pdf version to your email address - just in case.

Hello Darrell,
I'm having the same problem everyone else seems to be having. Please send me a message and give me an email address where I can send a mobi or pdf file of my book to you for your round 2 review.

Darrell -

Grabbed your book off Amazon this morning. Thanks,

Bruce

Hey Darrell
Downloaded mine from Amazon just now. Thanks!
Elizabeth

Bruce and Elizabeth,
Thanks for downloading it.

My first round review of Undazzled by Chance Maree

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2LL...
Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2QB8...

Bruce wrote: "My first round review of Undazzled by Chance Maree

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2LL...
Amazon.co.uk: https://www.ama..."

Thank you!
(P.S. Tyr becomes increasingly important in the sequel.)

Oh, that is a reason I had not considered. Nice book. bp

Just finished and reviewed Half a Mind by Bruce M. Perrin.

Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/review/R27WGMO...
Amazon.co.uk:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R14CR...
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

And someone please correct me if I'm not posting the links correctly.
Thanks!

Elizabeth wrote: "Just finished and reviewed Half a Mind by Bruce M. Perrin.

Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for your review. Please edit your post to include the Goodreads link to your review. Right now, the link you posted goes to the novel. Thanks!

Thanks for checking, Chance.

Here's the link to the goodreads review:

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



Chance wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Just finished and reviewed Half a Mind by Bruce M. Perrin.

Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for your review. Please edit your post to include the Goodreads link to your review. Right now, t..."

Elizabeth wrote: "Thanks for checking, Chance.

Here's the link to the goodreads review:

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



Chance wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Just finished and reviewed Half a Mind by ..."

Elizabeth, when I followed the link, it went to a blank review page.

Third time lucky...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Elizabeth wrote: "Third time lucky...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Thanks!

My first round review of The Judas Disciple by Chrys Cymri.

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

Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/review/create-...

Amazon.uk:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/creat...

Okay, live and learn, I think these links are the right ones.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/review/RN0G280...
amazon.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3HDF...

Charles wrote: "Okay, live and learn, I think these links are the right ones.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/review/RN0G280......"

Thanks, Charles.

My round 1

Dymon's Lair by Darrell B. Nelson

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R3FE33J...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RE538...

Thanks Chance for the thoughtful review.

My second round review of Dymon's Lair by Darrell B. Nelson

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2N6YI9H...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R26AZI...

Bruce wrote: "My second round review of Dymon's Lair by Darrell B. Nelson

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2N6YI9H...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R26AZI......"

Thanks, Bruce.