Sian’s Comments (group member since Mar 25, 2025)

Sian’s comments from the NetGalley Buddy Readers group.

A cute D&D themed romance, I really enjoyed this!

Date Knight: A brand new spicy romantic comedy for summer 2025


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

This month I managed to knock 5 of the books off my backlog shelf (from the early Netgalley days of requesting everything, then lockdown and kids entering my life!)

- 5 stars, my review

- 4 stars, my review

- 3 stars, my review

- 3.75 stars, my review

- 3.75 stars, my review

And 3 current reviews (published in March and April)

- 5 stars, my review

- 4 stars, my review

- 5 stars, my review

I've got my ratio up to 76% and have 14 to go to reach 80%. I'd like to reach that by the end of June, then I'll work on clearing the other 60 or so from my outstanding list!

I've never read a book like this before, but it was witty and dark and dysfunctional and brilliant:

Gifted & Talented


My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I have a lot of older books that have past publish date (I'm working hard to get through them now!), but ones to read and review that are published in the coming months are:

April


June

I just read House of Blight



A gothic romantasy with a dysfunctional family and deadly disease - it hooked me at first, slowed down a little in the middle, then had me gripped for the last third!

My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

How long have you been on NG?
2013

How many books have you read/reviewed?
255 reviewed

What is your current review ratio?
75% - I'm working hard on pushing it up to 80%!

As a rough guess, how many books do you get approved from as a percentage of total books requested?
I think I've been declined for around 15-20% of books.

How many or how often do you get books you 'wished' for?
Looking back through my emails, I've had 3 granted, but I'm not sure how many I've wished for.

How many or how often do you get offered widgets?
I don't check every email from Netgalley (as I'll request too many if I do!), so I'm not very sure about this, but one or two a month maybe?

How many, if any, publishers are you auto-approved for?
None at the moment!

I used to be auto-approved for two or three, but I took a break from Netgalley for around 4 years (lockdown and I had kids), and during that time, the auto-approvals disappeared. I'm back reviewing again now, so hopefully I'll get auto-approved by some again in future, although right now, I'd prefer not to so I can get my ratio up above 80%!
I did the same as other reviewers and requested a lot in the early days and some I didn't download before the archive date. I'm catching up on some (very!) old ones on there now with a goal to clear at least 50% of the list (around 30-40 books) by the end of the year.