Loralee’s Comments (group member since Oct 20, 2015)

Loralee’s comments from the Review Group group.

Thanks, Tenkara. Your 2nd review is complete!

Thanks, David. Your 1st review is complete!

I have also experienced that problem. Check that "Notify me when people comment" is checked. If it is, you can do a couple of things. Like me, you can just check every day to see if something has been updated, or you might consider checking with Goodreads itself, here: https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

I found I was not getting notifications, so I just checked back every day on the rounds I was in charge of to see if anyone had commented. And then one day I started getting notifications again. I could not tell you why that happened.

Thanks, Seth. Your 1st review is complete!

Tenkara, Amazon can take a while to post reviews on their site. Sometimes it takes just a few minutes, other times it can take days. That is very normal. I have seen it take up to two weeks before. When the Amazon review does post, then you can post a link to it here.
Thank you for the Goodreads review to David's book.

Thanks, Miriam. Your 2nd review is complete!
Jacob wrote: "Hi Loralee,

Thanks for the detailed breakdown — I really appreciate how well-organized and transparent the group is. I’m definitely interested in joining a GENERAL round to get honest, constructiv..."

Hi, Jacob, yes. That book does sound suitable for a general round. This one is full. If you keep checking back and looking for a group that says "Now Forming" you will be able to enter that round, provided that you don't have any review conflicts with other members. That means that you won't be set to review anyone who has reviewed you in the past, or be reviewed by someone you have reviewed as we don't do reciprocal reviews in this group.
Since you're new, you likely won't have any conflicts.

Keep checking back, and look for a General round you can join.

Thanks, Juliette. Your 1st review is complete!
Thanks, Whittney. Your 1st review is complete!

Thanks, Emma! Your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reviews are complete!

Thanks, JA. You 1st review is complete!
Thanks for those goodreads reviews Emma. I look forward to links to you Amazon reviews!

Tenkara, your links take us to the book, not to your reviews of the book. I went looking, and found the links here: amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/customer...
and goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks, Tenkara. Your 1st review is complete!

Completed reviews so far. Completed is when both Goodreads and Amazon reviews are finished and links are posted here.

1. Seth Hobbs
2. Laura Koerber
3. Whittney Corum
4. Tenkara Smart
5. J A Freely
6. David Alyn Gordon
7. Emma C Buenen
8. Juliette Godot
9. Miriam Schwellnus - 1 review
10. Loralee Evans - 4 reviews

Thanks, Miriam. Your 1st review is complete!
Thanks for the goodreads review, Tenkara. When your Amazon review comes through, please create a separate post rather than editing the post with your goodreads link. It makes it easier for me to see.

My reviews for Laura's book finally came through on Amazon.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2U2506...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Here is my 3rd review for Black Powder Black Heart
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R17NOBS...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Here is my next review for Winter Wind.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R30MWMF...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Laura, I am still waiting on the Amazon review for your book!

If you have not heard from one or more of your people by now, either above or below, please message me and let me know.

Here is my first review for His Name is Junsaku.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/RX6KTBC...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

We should have all heard from our people by now, the 4 above, and the 4 below.
If you have not contacted your people, or answered their messages, please do so.
If you've messaged your people and haven't heard back, try again. Let me know if they don't get back to you in the next few days.

To clear up some possible misunderstandings, there are to be no reciprocal reviews in this review group.

If I am reviewing you, for example, DO NOT review me. You may feel free to buy and read whatever books you like, but do not review the book of someone who is set to review you.

There are several reasons that this review group does not engage in reciprocal reviews.
One is that Amazon deletes such reviews anyway.
Another is that when people are reviewing each other, the reviews often are inflated unnaturally, giving an inaccurate rating to the books. This is why Amazon does what it does in deleting reciprocal reviews.

Having said that, thank you to the people who have contacted me, who are either reviewing me or being reviewed by me.

Everyone should be contacting their people soon if they have not already.

And everyone needs to be prepared to send and receive at least PDFs.

Happy reading everyone!

Okay, we’re ready!
START DATE: 30-Apr-25
END DATE: 23-July-25




Round 1 – post your review by 21-May-25
Round 2 – post your review by 11-Jun-25
Round 3 – post your review by 2-Jul-25
Round 4 – post your review by 23-Jul-25

You will be SENDING your book file to the four people above you, and RECEIVING a book file from the four people below you. Read below, including the instructions further down.


As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:



378-01__Seth Hobbs
Loralee Evans for round 1
Miriam Schwellnus for round 2
Juliette Godot for round 3
Emma C Buenen for round 4

378-02__Laura Koerber
Seth Hobbs for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Miriam Schwellnus for round 3
Juliette Godot for round 4


378-03__Whittney Corum
Laura Koerber for round 1
Seth Hobbs for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Miriam Schwellnus for round 4




378-04__ Tenkara Smart
Whittney Corum for round 1
Laura Koerber for round 2
Seth Hobbs for round 3
Loralee Evans for round 4




378-05__ J.A. Freely
Tenkara Smart for round 1
Whittney Corum for round 2
Laura Koerber for round 3
Seth Hobbs for round 4




378-06__David Alyn Gordon
J.A. Freely for round 1
Tenkara Smart for round 2
Whittney Corum for round 3
Laura Koerber for round 4




378-07__ Emma C Buenen
David Alyn Gordon for round 1
J.A. Freely for round 2
Tenkara Smart for round 3
Whittney Corum for round 4


378-08__ Juliette Godot
Emma C Buenen for round 1
David Alyn Gordon for round 2
J.A. Freely for round 3
Tenkara Smart for round 4




378-09__ Miriam Schwellnus
Juliette Godot for round 1
Emma C Buenen for round 2
David Alyn Gordon for round 3
J.A. Freely for round 4




378-10__ Loralee Evans
Miriam Schwellnus for round 1
Juliette Godot for round 2
Emma C Buenen for round 3
David Alyn Gordon for round 4




As REVIEWERS you will RECEIVE books from:


378-01__Seth Hobbs
Laura Koerber for round 1
Whittney Corum for round 2
Tenkara Smart for round 3
J.A. Freely for round 4

378-02__Laura Koerber
Whittney Corum for round 1
Tenkara Smart for round 2
J.A. Freely for round 3
David Alyn Gordon for round 4

378-03__Whittney Corum
Tenkara Smart for round 1
J.A. Freely for round 2
David Alyn Gordon for round 3
Emma C Buenen for round 3

378-04__ Tenkara Smart
J.A. Freely for round 1
David Alyn Gordon for round 2
Emma C Buenen for round 3
Juliette Godot for round 4

378-05__ J.A. Freely
David Alyn Gordon for round1
Emma C Buenen for round2
Juliette Godot for round3
Miriam Schwellnus for round4

378-06__ David Alyn Gordon
Emma C Buenen for round1
Juliette Godot for round2
Miriam Schwellnus for round3
Loralee Evans for round4

378-07__ Emma C Buenen
Juliette Godot for round 1
Miriam Schwellnus for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Seth Hobbs for round 4

378-08__ Juliette Godot
Miriam Schwellnus for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Seth Hobbs for round 3
Laura Koerber for round 4

378-09__ Miriam Schwellnus
Loralee Evans for round 1
Seth Hobbs for round 2
Laura Koerber for round 3
Whittney Corum for round 4

378-10__Loralee Evans
Seth Hobbs for round 1
Laura Koerber for round 2
Whittney Corum for round 3
Tenkara Smart 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’.