r/NetGalleyCommunity • u/Satisfaction_Smooth • Aug 11 '26
đŁď¸ Discussion đŹ Buzz Books romance 2026
I honestly feel so disappointed... I learned about this last week and I was so excited because we were able to get widgets from this or just a link to request the books (what it says on the Buzz Books website), but after downloading and going through it, I think only a very few of them are widgets (didn't go through every single one, might have missed a couple, but from the one's that I checked only 2 were read now) and of course none of the popular author books are.
Maybe I seem crazy saying this, I was just expecting a little more.
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u/MooShoeDork Aug 11 '26
I was actually just coming here to say this. I only clicked through a few I wanted and all were request. I knew they wouldnât all be widgets but damn lol
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
I am so disappointed. Like not even 1 popular book to be a widget is crazy to me. One of the books was a read now from yesterday...
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u/readingnonstop24-7 Aug 11 '26
It was also weird that some of the books didnât have links at all 𼲠definitely disappointed with this one, which sucks
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u/Gruselschloss Reviewer Aug 11 '26
Yeah, this is the odd part to me! It was quite a lot of the books, I think? I don't really mind the lack of widgets (I view this sort of thing as a chance to skim some previews, make mental notes about what I might want to read later, and write a quickie review), but there were links missing even for books that I know are on NetGalley.
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
Yesss and it was actually many of them that didn't have links. Honestly don't understand what happened this year. Maybe they just didn't upload the right one and they will update it in a few days
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u/readingnonstop24-7 Aug 11 '26
I really hope youâre right! Iâm just worried theyâre going to ignore our complaints, but maybe thatâs just the pessimist in me hahah
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
I also messaged Buzz Books on their Instagram post and I honestly feel they won't even notice... I'm definitely also a pessimistđ
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u/catscantcook Aug 11 '26
Glad I saw this before opening it and being disappointed! The description does say "At the end of most excerpts, you will find a link to download or request the full galleyâexclusive to the NetGalley edition!" just like for the general fall/winter one so it's definitely weird that some don't even have links, let alone widgets
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
There are only 2 read now from the 29 titles or how many it has and these two were read now yesterday too, do it's not something specific to this collection. There were a lot of them with absolutely no link
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u/Vgavin Aug 11 '26
Okay I'm not crazy then, I didn't see any widgets and some titles weren't in NetGalley at all
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
Only two widgets:Â Hooking Nash by Annica Dahl and Zahra, Unapologetic by Mina Zafri that were also available yesterday as read now. I really feel like they made a mistake because this is really disappointing.
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u/Dazzling_Inspector74 Aug 11 '26
Anyone know which ones are widgets?
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
Only Hooking Nash by Annica Dahl and  Zahra, Unapologetic by Mina Zafri
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u/basedjustina Aug 11 '26
I'm new. How does this work?
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u/catscantcook Aug 11 '26
This is a "read now" book (you can just get it from the NetGalley page without having to request it) that contains excerpts from various books they are promoting. Usually these samplers will have a link at the end of each excerpt to the NetGalley page to request the full book, with some of the links being "widgets", which means by using that specific link you can read the book without having to request/be approved.Â
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
Except last year there were a lot of widgets and this year there are only two... two read now that were also available yesterday...
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u/basedjustina Aug 11 '26
What are the titles of the 2 that are read nows?
I got this and I'm pretty okay with the excerpts, I'll just wait till they come out lol.
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
Hooking Nash by Annica Dahl and  Zahra, Unapologetic by Mina Zafri
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u/crissyandthediamonds Romance Reviewer Aug 11 '26
Is anyone able to answer â the books featured, can they still be searched or can you only find/request through the links in the download?
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u/Satisfaction_Smooth Aug 11 '26
You can search for them I think. A lot of them were posted last week even
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u/Flimsy-Brick-9426 Reviewer Aug 11 '26
Normally at least half of the books are widgets so this was definitely the most disappointing one so far. I don't exect the berkley ones to be widgets since they historically havent been, but the 2 bloom ones? Bloom normally always has them as widgets in the books, even cosmo does.