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I decided to open a thread solely for NetGalley reviewers to let others know when one of our favourites might be up! I noticed posts advising were being missed, and put in different threads, so here we are!


Posted 21/1/20 - Letting you all know that Gulliver's Wife (love the cover!) by AA Lauren Chater (author of The Lace Weaver) is on NetGalley, as is A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs (in the pipeline since 2018) both on S&S AU. I have them both!!

Posted 21/1/20 - Also The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan

and Where Fortune Lies by Mary-Anne O'Connor

Both AAs :)

Posted today (24/1/20) - The Second Home by Christina Clancy is Read Now on NG - - for anyone interested :)

Excellent idea!!

Thanks Marianne :)

I can feel my kindle getting heavier already 😀 Love this thread, thanks Brenda 😊

This is a fabulous idea. Although it should come with a warning. I just know I’m goung to go crazy requesting new books. 😀

Like minds Brenda! I was going to message you about starting a NG thread after I posted a NG book in the free book thread earlier today (and wasn't sure if that was the best place!).
Excellent idea - although I'll probably have to try to ignore it as I already have way too many NG books!

I would love it if everyone said when they found good books available as read now!

Thanks guys - I only wish I'd thought of it before now! Never mind - we can all load our kindles - eh Carolyn ;)

Awesome idea! I have a few of the above already :)

Thanks Brenda, looking forward to this thread....I think!

Great thread Brenda! And just what we need, one more aid to simplify enabling our habit 😂

Of course we do Jools - we must all help each other to be surrounded in books ;)

Read Now: Amethyst Pledge by Leonie Rogers pub date 17th April

For request: Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer

Great idea, thanks for the thread.

Great idea Brenda!
I was going to recommend Never Forget by Martin Michaud but it was archived a couple of days ago �� - very like Jo Nesbø style of writing but set in Canada.

Wish I'd thought of it earlier - better late than never I guess :)

Marianne wrote: "For request: Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer"


Requested yesterday and have been approved 😊 Thanks for sharing, Marianne.

The Darkest Shore by Karen Brooks is available for request

For those who haven't read debut Aussie author Sarah Thornton's Lapse Text have just added it to NetGalley :) A top read!

Brenda wrote: "For those who haven't read debut Aussie author Sarah Thornton's Lapse Text have just added it to NetGalley :) A top read!"
I second Brenda regarding this book, I really enjoyed it.

Fantastic wasn't it Marlin!

Halfway through Unfollow Me by Charlotte Duckworth and finding it very intriguing. It is being archived on Netgalley on 10th Feb so if you are interested get it soon.

Can still recommend this book having finished it, will be archived tomorrow on Netgalley. Only picked it up to get a book starting with 'U' for a challenge :)

My review for Unfollow Me by Charlotte Duckworth

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I finished one this morning that is still available for request - Amnesty by Award-winning Indian author Aravind Adiga. I really enjoyed it but am in a bit of a review slump at the moment so it might take me a couple of days to put something together.

Essentially, it’s set in Sydney and the whole story takes place over the course of one day. The MC is an illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has to wrestle his conscience to make a life-changing decision.

This is a question on using Net Galley. My apologies if it doesn't fit here.

When I get accepted to read books my feedback ration takes a dive because they immediately count those books as ones I haven't given feedback on...

What do you do to get around this? Or what am I doing wrong?

Lol! Read them M:) Or just don't ask for too many at a time.

M wrote: "This is a question on using Net Galley. My apologies if it doesn't fit here.

When I get accepted to read books my feedback ration takes a dive because they immediately count those books as ones I ..."

I am curious how you would expect it to work?

M wrote: "This is a question on using Net Galley. My apologies if it doesn't fit here.

When I get accepted to read books my feedback ration takes a dive because they immediately count those books as ones I ..."

Don't pay any attention to the ratio - and as Phrynne says, read them. It changes as you request and read, so it isn't really important (unless you have a VERY large number you haven't read!)

I didn’t realise you peeps would be amused by that :P

Em Jay Reads, I’m having to guess at the answer you’re expecting. Is it ‘I don’t know��?

I didn’t really have any ideas on how it should work but was surprised when books that aren’t published for a couple of months cause my % to drop when the publishers generally don’t want the reviews published until the couple of weeks before publishing.

Phrynne, I think I will take that advice and cut back on requests from NetGalley since it seems a bit harder to plan than I had thought originally. TBC I read them all (except for one non-netgalley dnf), I just thought I had until the weeks prior to publish date to do so and place my review.

Thanks Brenda. Not focusing on the percentage so much is also good advice. It probably just looks bad atm because I do have three lined up :/

You do have until the week prior M, or even a few days after. I don't read and review until a week or so prior to the publication date. I never look at the ratio either :) You'll be fine once you relax into it - they won't do anything (except possibly restrict your requests) but you don't have anything to worry about :)

M wrote: "Thanks Brenda. Not focusing on the percentage so much is also good advice. It probably just looks bad atm because I do have three lined up :/"

Once you get a lot of reviews done - e.g. you've read and reviewed 50 then 100, the ratio would probably stabilize. Don't stress though :)

Great, Brenda 🙂 Thanks 👍🏻

No problems :)

M wrote: "This is a question on using Net Galley. My apologies if it doesn't fit here.

When I get accepted to read books my feedback ration takes a dive because they immediately count those books as ones I ..."

Because NG counts the books on your shelf as unread, it does take a while to get your ratio to sit over the required 80%.

For example, if you have read and reviewed 20 books you can only have up to 4 on your shelf waiting to be read (to stay at 80%). Once you have reviewed 50 you can have up to 10 on the shelf and so on. As Brenda said it will eventually stabilise.

So as Phrynne said, just read them and don't ask for too many at once and your feedback ratio will soon start to climb. (If you have trouble getting approvals initially review some 'Read Now' books to give your stats a boost).

Great insight re the numbers (which Brenda also touched on), Carolyn. It was something I hadn’t thought of at all and it matters because, by memory, I’ve only read half a dozen or perhaps just over.

So I will def keep going, but also keep a lid on it so as not to spiral. :P

That was KEEP a lid on it.

NetGalley has Something to Talk About by Rachael Johns

and The Women's Pages by Victoria Purman

available for request :)

M wrote: "Great insight re the numbers (which Brenda also touched on), Carolyn. It was something I hadn’t thought of at all and it matters because, by memory, I’ve only read half a dozen or perhaps just over..."

I was curious as I haven't looked at my ratio for a very long time (that's how I found those new releases!) I'm at 96% so I'm pretty chuffed with that. But I also have reviewed well over 500 too...

Whoa! Over 500!?! That’s a lot of reading, well done. 😀

Thanks. I've been a member for a lot of years 😊

You don't want to know my percentage... They keep giving them to me though! LOL

This thread will probably not help... whoops

M wrote: "I didn’t realise you peeps would be amused by that :P

Em Jay Reads, I’m having to guess at the answer you’re expecting. Is it ‘I don’t know��?

Ididn’t really have any ideas on how it should work ..."

You could always review on NG asap and review elsewhere closer/on the publication date. You can go in and add links to reviews at a later date.

Em_Jay I think that's more good advice for me to integrate. I've been planning my reading in relation to publication dates but that doesn't seem to work as well for Net Galley.

If you read Net Galley books early, can you do the review on their website but not publish your reviews on blogs and websites until the week or so prior to publication date?

Lee wrote: "You don't want to know my percentage... They keep giving them to me though! LOL

This thread will probably not help... whoops"

Hehe, yeah. I think some books are muuuuch easier to get, too. I know when I first joined I didn't have much to show for myself but I still managed to get certain books from certain publishers.

In a way it's been good for me because I might not have tried some of those novels, lesser known stories and authors, but I've enjoyed some of them immensely.

M wrote: "Great insight re the numbers (which Brenda also touched on), Carolyn. It was something I hadn’t thought of at all and it matters because, by memory, I’ve only read half a dozen or perhaps just over..."

Good luck! It definitely gets easier the more books you've read and in the meantime don't sweat if your feedback does plummet because you've just been approved for a heap of books - just enjoy the ride! As you've said you can discover some great books you wouldn't have tried otherwise.

M wrote: "Em_Jay I think that's more good advice for me to integrate. I've been planning my reading in relation to publication dates but that doesn't seem to work as well for Net Galley.

If you read Net Ga..."

Yes - a lot of people do that (review on NG and wait until a week before publication to post on GR). A lot of people post early of GR as well. I usually post in the month before publication unless asked otherwise by the publisher.

That’s great, Carolyn.

Also huge thanks to everyone who replied. I’m feeling more comfortable with the process now.

There’s no rule book! :P

I review before the release date if I can - truth is a lot of times it is after.

A few publishers ask to not review until release date and I make a note of this so I don’t forget.

I have one now that is not a Netgalley book but is being released on 18th February and there is complete silence - no promotion at all until release day. All very secretive and such fun as there is a large group of authors all doing this - 13 books all being released on the same day!

My Netgalley percentage is 96% - they like you to be at least 80%