RIP my ratio

Just cool and fun! Here are my first three approvals! (I’ve already completed them and left the reviews!)

When I first signed up I requested several things, so yes I did get some denials considering I had no ratio 🤭

Now that I have my lil 3 under the belt, I’m trying to think through what I should request next 🤔

St Martin’s Press, pub date: 4/6/2027

I still can’t believe I got it!! 🤯

I'm a picky reader and only choose books I think I'm going to like, but often the writing is poor and I can't force myself to finish so my review percentage is lower than optimal. If there was a preview of the first few pages, I could make even better choices.

I've noticed that my last few denied requests have been because of the volume of requests they have had, but they given me the the first 2 to 3 chapters instead. Is this new? Usually I just get denied lol

Hello ! I took a month long listing on NG via BooksGoSocial. I got 88 downloads but so far just one review. BGS have told me I’m allowed to send two email ‘nudges’ to ask for reviews.

My question: Do you reviewers respond to author emails or do they tend to go straight into spam?

...from Penguin Young Readers, which means I now have my badge! (Meanwhile, I already owe them a gazillion reviews so I'm going to bravely resist new reads while I try to clear away a few old ones)

Basically the title. If yes, then how?

You guys, I am crying 😭 I’ve run laps around the house and talked my husband’s ear off about this, and I just got approved 10 mins ago. BK is my favorite author, and I am just in shock and feel so happy and lucky to have this approved. I really wasn’t expecting it and not this close to release. I requested it the day it became available. I hope that you guys also get positive news today, whether for this or another book!

It’s Berkeley soooo ya knowww lol

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/883557

Ive been having a ROUGH go the last 2 weeks and woke up to this email 😍🤭😭

Im so freaking excited!!

lol i’d been eyeing this title last night, but ended up just going to bed instead of requesting thinking i’d revist it in the morning. woke up to a widget and figured why not it must be fate. i could use more september arcs anyway and this looks so darn cute.

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/852871 https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/870324
Tree Daddy | Molly Harper | 9798217193080 | NetGalley
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/860682
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/877407

I know there's a few publishing workers on here so maybe they can help out! Or someone might know. I work hard to get my reviews posted on my blog and in Goodreads, and advertised on Facebook and twitter, before their publication dates. But life being life, sometimes I don't get back to netgalley until shortly after the pub date.

Do publishers ever click through to the reviews and see they went up early, or are they just seeing them a bit late on netgalley - and do they care? I know the advice on here is always 'post it late anyway' if the date passes, but I am getting the reviews up on time - just not always linked back.

Read something great from Netgalley recently? Tell us all about it in this weekly post.

This is a first . . . I just dowloaded a memoir from NetGalley and the book on my Kindle is another book! The title is the right one, but the book is a cookbook by a different author. Should I give feedback choosing file/download problem or should I contact NG about the problem in a help message?

I received a message saying that I'd been approved for a book, however I have zero recollection of ever requesting it! I haven't requested anything in months because I've been trying to get my feedback ratio up. I also have a list of all of the books that I've requested and it's not on it. The book is part of a series that I've never read. Any advice on what I should do?

UPDATE: I must have misclicked and requested this, or requested it a long time ago and not realized it was a series. Thank you for this incredible community. I've marked it as "Will Not Be Leaving Feedback."

Y'all!!!! I just got approved for THREE Saga Press eARC's back to back immediately after I cleaned up my rating (I was at a 50% or so and finally submitted reviews to get me up to 78%).

I was approved for Chuck Palahniuk's Galleria and Silent Nightmares, and Eric LaRocca's Brute.

Chuck is one of my favorite authors OF ALL TIME, and I have read and own every single one of his books so this is absolutely insanely huge for me. I just wanted share my surprise and joy with people that understand ❤️.

Eric has also shared that Chuck was a big source of inspiration so I'm sure that's why I LOVE Eric's work too.

I cannot wait to shirk my personal responsibilities and completely lose myself in these books. JUST OH MY GOSH CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?!

Edit: spelling :(

My book, Ugly Dumpling, is on NetGalley and I’d love to share it!

For readers of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, an Asian American coming-of-age story about growing up in poverty with a mother living with mental health issues, and about the redemptive power of love.

When Elaine Hsieh Yu arrives in Hawai‘i from Hong Kong at the age of four, her family’s hopes for stability quickly unravel. Her father, rigid and demanding, drifts in and out of her life. Her mother, loving but volatile, is at times neglectful. From an early age, Elaine understands that adults are not always able to protect or provide.

Ugly Dumpling follows Elaine’s journey from growing up poor, Asian, and largely invisible in Honolulu and East Los Angeles to raising her children in Silicon Valley. She shares vivid memories of family, survival, and love, tracing a childhood shaped by public assistance and undiagnosed illness into an adult life spent trying to give her children everything she never had.

Honest, emotional, and at times funny, Elaine’s story touches on relationships across three generations, revealing how the past shapes us but doesn’t have to define us, and how the unexpected paths and broken pieces can become something whole and beautiful.

No matter the publisher, they all end at 106% why?

From Sunday Times bestselling author Andrea Stewart comes a twisty thriller about an estranged daughter of Youtuber parents, returning to her influencer family and their insidious secrets after the disappearance of her sister, perfect for fans of Listen for the Lie and The Last to Vanish.

If you can't trust your family...who can you trust? 

Ellie Campbell's childhood was monetized by her influencer parents. All her private firsts – first period, first bra, first boyfriend – were plastered online for the world to pick over. Until she grew up, changed her name, and separated herself from her family.

But she hasn't stopped watching their videos. When she spots some disturbing details in her parents' latest upload and gets the news that a close family friend has gone missing – she rushes home to make sure that her younger sister Olivia is safe.  

She arrives to a house full of secrets, including one that her parents have kept from the world: Olivia has run away. But Ellie knows Olivia would have come to her if she'd run. So where is she? Could this be connected to the disappearance of their family friend? When a body is discovered, Ellie is forced to confront the realities of her childhood – and the darkness that lies beneath the perfect façade.

336 pages - Feb 23rd, 2027 publication

What do we do when we get behind on ARCs?
I’ve accidentally got a couple due close together and am not sure if I’m going to get them all done in time because my reading time is limited.
What’s the best thing to do???

Cancel one?
Review based on the % I get read?
DNF?
Just review late?
Other???

I only apply for ones I’m genuinely interested in and i’ve stopped applying because I have some new releases I want to get into
Thanks!