Group 362. General - Mod. Gene

[P.J.]

Hi Gene,

It's the Eternal's Triumph
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Tempest]

Hi, I would like to register my interest with my book England 2K State Insekt (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...)

If paired with someone who has already read me, I would ask for reviews on my fourth book River Mouth which no one has reviewed in this group (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...)


I have reviewed Gene and E.K. - including The Missing and Ten Tales.
Laura has reviewed me twice.

[Gene, Admin]

Tempest, PJ posted first so that slot is filled at the moment.

Everyone...
Please tell me if you have reviewed any of the four people above you on the list. Please also check that if you have already reviewed any of the four people 'below' you on the list that they have more books available that you have not yet reviewed.

How to do this? Go to your Reviews page and type in the name of other authors who join the thread. That will tell you if you've read them in the past.

Then go to the profile of other authors in the thread and click on their "My Books" page, this time searching for your name. That will tell you if they have read you in the past.

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.

We can begin when all authors respond that they have no conflicts.

[K.B.]

I have no conflicts

[Laura]

No conflicts

[E.K., Admin]

No conflicts, thanks!

[S.D.]

no conflicts

[Gabriela]

no conflict

[Loralee, Admin]

Aside from Gabriela adding my book to her to-read shelf here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (no rating or review) I have no conflicts.
In case you didn't understand Gabriela, I will review your book. You won't review mine.

[Audrey]

No conflicts here. Good to go.
Audrey

[P.J.]

Good to go

[Ann]

Good to go

[Gene, Admin]

Member Links * Book Links
1. Gene Kendall *Ten Tiny Tales: Stories of Broken Elevators and Other Mundane Things
2. K.B. Brookes *Surviving With Noah: In the dangerous Arctic wilderness, two reality show contestants turn up the heat
3. E.K. Frances * The Missing
4. Audrey Driscoll * The Friendship of Mortals
5. Loralee Evans * Ephraim's Garden
6. Laura Koerber *A Very Heaven
7. P.J. Ashton *The Eternal's Triumph
8. S.D. Brown * Alabaster Alibi
9. Gabriela Popa *Kafka's House
10. Ann Birdgenaw *Black Hole Radio - Furilani


START DATE: June 13, 2024
END DATE: September 5, 2024

Round 1 – post your review by July 4, 2024
Round 2 – post your review by July 25, 2024
Round 3 – post your review by August 15, 2024
Round 4 – post your review by September 5, 2024


As AUTHORS you SEND your book file to:

-01__Gene Kendall
Ann Birdgenaw for round 1
Gabriela Popa for round 2
S.D. Brown for round 3
P.J. Ashton for round 4

-02__ K.B. Brookes
Gene Kendall for round 1
Ann Birdgenaw for round 2
Gabriela Popa for round 3
S.D. Brown for round 4

-03__E.K. Frances
K.B. Brookes for round 1
Gene Kendall for round 2
Ann Birdgenaw for round 3
Gabriela Popa for round 4

-04__ Audrey Driscoll
E.K. Frances for round 1
K.B. Brookes for round 2
Gene Kendall for round 3
Ann Birdgenaw for round 4

-05__ Loralee Evans
Audrey Driscoll for round 1
E.K. Frances for round 2
K.B. Brookes for round 3
Gene Kendall for round 4

-06__ Laura Koerber
Loralee Evans for round 1
Audrey Driscoll for round 2
E.K. Frances for round 3
K.B. Brookes for round 4

-07__ P.J. Ashton
Laura Koerber for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Audrey Driscoll for round 3
E.K. Frances for round 4

-08__ S.D. Brown
P.J. Ashton for round 1
Laura Koerber for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Audrey Driscoll for round 4

-09__ Gabriela Popa
S.D. Brown for round 1
P.J. Ashton for round 2
Laura Koerber for round 3
Loralee Evans for round 4

-10__ Ann Birdgenaw
Gabriela Popa for round 1
S.D. Brown for round 2
P.J. Ashton for round 3
Laura Koerber for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

-01__Gene Kendall
K.B. Brookes for round 1
E.K. Frances for round 2
Audrey Driscoll for round 3
Loralee Evans for round 4

-02__K.B. Brookes
E.K. Frances for round 1
Audrey Driscoll for round 2
Loralee Evans for round 3
Laura Koerber for round 4

-03__E.K. Frances
Audrey Driscoll for round 1
Loralee Evans for round 2
Laura Koerber for round 3
P.J. Ashton for round 4

-04__ Audrey Driscoll
Loralee Evans for round 1
Laura Koerber for round 2
P.J. Ashton for round 3
S.D. Brown for round 4

-05__ Loralee Evans
Laura Koerber for round 1
P.J. Ashton for round 2
S.D. Brown for round 3
Gabriela Popa for round 4

-06__ Laura Koerber
P.J. Ashton for round 1
S.D. Brown for round 2
Gabriela Popa for round 3
Ann Birdgenaw for round 4

-07__ P.J. Ashton
S.D. Brown for round 1
Gabriela Popa for round 2
Ann Birdgenaw for round 3
Gene Kendall for round 4

-08__ S.D. Brown
Gabriela Popa for round 1
Ann Birdgenaw for round 2
Gene Kendall for round 3
K.B. Brookes for round 4

-09__ Gabriela Popa
Ann Birdgenaw for round 1
Gene Kendall for round 2
K.B. Brookes for round 3
E.K. Frances for round 4

-10__ Ann Birdgenaw
Gene Kendall for round 1
K.B. Brookes for round 2
E.K. Frances for round 3
Audrey Driscoll 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 :)

[Gene, Admin]

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.

[Gene, Admin]

Final tips, please read...
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.

[Loralee, Admin]

Here's #1 for me. Laura's Dog Thief, as I have already read Very Heaven:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R14554G...

[Laura]

Hi All, I will buy the books I am reviewing unless one turns out to be really expensive--so no need to contact me! Thanks, Laura

[S.D.]

I'll grab my books review off Amazon as well...

[Loralee, Admin]

Here is my 2nd review, Kafka's House.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2DDKAU...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, Loralee.

[Gabriela]

Done with my #1, Ann's book "Black Hole Radio - Furilani"

Amazon https://shorturl.at/fDpTI
GR https://shorturl.at/4pp9S

[Gene, Admin]

Thank you, Gabriela.

[K.B.]

Round 1 complete. E K Frances, The Missing

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://amazon.com.au/review/R1HJ4R9H...

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks for the links, KB.

[Ann]

Thanks for the lovely review, Gabriela. I hope you don't mind that I posted it to Twitter. ;-)

[Gabriela]

Hi Ann, absolutely no problem.

[Loralee, Admin]

Here is my 3rd review. The Eternal's Triumph.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/RY0E3A0...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Audrey]

Here is my review of Ephraim's Garden by Loralee Evans:

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/review/RALAVQMN...

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks to Loralee and Audrey.

[Gabriela]

Here are my reviews (book #2) of Gene's book of short stories
GR https://shorturl.at/M5gDv
Amazon https://shorturl.at/nfaja

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, Gabriela. Glad you enjoyed the collection.

[Loralee, Admin]

Here is my 4th and final review: Pretty Little Rumors, as I've read many others of S.D. Brown's books.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2KL7A5...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Thanks for your work, Gene!

[Gene, Admin]

Thank you, Loralee.

[Ann]

Here's my first review for Gene's book

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

Amazon pending

[Gabriela]

Here are my reviews for books #3 and #4

Surviving with Noah
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
amazon - submitted - pending

The Missing
GR https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/review/R2FR9PN...

This completes my review process for this group. Thanks to reviewers, reviewees and to the moderator, Gene.

[Gene, Admin]

Great. Thanks. Gabriela and Ann.

[P.J.]

Here's my review for Alabaster Alibi

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

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1AX5...

[Ann]

Here's the Zon link for Gene's book

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/customer-rev...

[P.J.]

Here's my review for Kafka's House

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RE4TX...

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

[P.J.]

Here's my review for Black​Hole Radio Furilani
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RFPE1...

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

[Gene, Admin]

Goodreads reviews for...
The Outside (The Compound #2) by E.K. Frances (Amazon will be posted when book is live there): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Surviving With Noah: (The Great Escape Wilderness Adventures Book 1) by K.B. Brookes : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks to PJ and Ann for the links.

[Gene, Admin]

And here's my Amazon review for Surviving With Noah: (The Great Escape Wilderness Adventures Book 1) by K.B. Brookes :
https://www.amazon.com/review/RJGXKSP...

[K.B.]

Thanks for the reviews Gene and Gabriela.

I needed a short read so have skipped ahead to round 3. Here's my reviews for Ephraim's Garden.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.amazon.com.au/review/RCS3...

I have also started reading Audrey's book for round 2.

[Gene, Admin]

Thank you, K.B.

[S.D.]

P.J. wrote: "Here's my review for Alabaster Alibi

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

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1AX5..."

thanks P.J. !

[Loralee, Admin]

K.B., your goodreads link in message 94 didn't go to the review. It went to the book itself. I went looking, and found your goodreads review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[K.B.]

Thanks for picking that up and pasting the correct link.

[P.J.]

Here's my review for Ten Tiny Tales

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RJ4IG...

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

[Gene, Admin]

Thanks, PJ. That closes out your reviews.