Books to Read For NetGalley #Reviewathon

Hello! Recently NetGalley started the #Reviewathon campaign across their social channels to encourage members to tackle their TBR and boost their feedback ratio. It’s the first time they have done this and I think it’s a great idea!

NetGalley is a great place to get books before release but I think many readers make the mistake of requesting a bunch of books all at once. If all the books are approved, they’re suddenly faced with a long list of books to be read. When they cannot catch up on reading and reviewing, it will affect their ratio which in turn affect future approvals. The #Reviewathon campaign gives a shared sense of community for members to read and review their books. So if you’re a NetGalley member who needs to catch up on your reviews check out their post!

I’ve learned to be more careful when requesting books and I try to keep my pending list at less than 10 so I don’t overwhelm myself. Also, as I don’t live in the Unites States a lot of books aren’t available for request which is frustrating but is probably good for my TBR! At the moment my feedback ratio is 67% which needs improving (the recommended feedback ratio is at least 80%). While I cleared 6 books from my list last month, I still have another 5 to read!

Here are the books currently on my list waiting for feedback:

In The Scrape by James Newman & Mark Steensland

Published Date: July 2019
Genre: Horror
Synopsis: Most kids dream about a new bike, a pair of top-dollar sneakers endorsed by their favorite athlete, or that totally awesome videogame everyone’s raving about. But thirteen-year-old Jake and his little brother Matthew want nothing more than to escape from their abusive father. As soon as possible, they plan to run away to California, where they will reunite with their mother and live happily ever after. 

It won’t be easy, though. After a scuffle with a local bully puts Jake’s arch-nemesis in the hospital, Sheriff Theresa McLelland starts poking her nose into their feud. During a trip to the family cabin for the opening weekend of deer-hunting season, Jake and Matthew kick their plan into action, leaving Dad tied to a chair as they flee into the night. Meanwhile, the bully and his father have their own plans for revenge, and the events to follow will forever change the lives of everyone involved .

The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

Published Date: July 2019
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: Lila Bennett’s bad choices have finally caught up with her. And one of those decisions has split her life in two. Literally.

In one life, she’s taken hostage by someone who appears to be a stranger but knows too much. As she’s trapped in a concrete cell, her kidnapper forces her to face what she’s done or be killed. In an alternate life, she eludes her captor but is hunted by someone who is dismantling her happiness, exposing one secret at a time.

Lila’s decorated career as a criminal defense attorney, her marriage, and her life are on the line. She must make a list of those she’s wronged—both in and out of the courtroom—to determine who is out to get her before it’s too late. But even if she can pinpoint her assailant, will she survive? And if she does, which parts of her life are worth saving, and which parts must die? Because one thing’s for certain—life as Lila Bennett knew it is over. 

Nobody Move by Philip Elliott

Published Date: September 2019
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: Eddie Vegas made a terrible mistake. Now he has to pay the price. After a botched debt collection turned double murder, Eddie splits, desperate to avoid his employer, notorious L.A. crime boss Saul Benedict, and his men (and Eddie’s ex-partners), Floyd and Sawyer, as well as the police. Soon he becomes entangled with the clever and beautiful Dakota, a Native American woman fresh in the City of Angels to find her missing friend—someone Eddie might know something about.

Meanwhile in Texas, ex-assassin Rufus, seeking vengeance for his murdered brother, takes up his beloved daggers one final time and begins the long drive to L.A. When the bodies begin to mount, Detective Alison Lockley’s hunt for the killers becomes increasingly urgent. As paths cross, confusion ensues, and no one’s entirely sure who’s after who. But one thing is clear: They’re not all getting out of this alive.

Violet by Scott Thomas

Published Date: September 2019
Genre: Horror
Synopsis: For many children, the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But for ten-year-old Kris Barlow, it was her chance to say goodbye to her dying mother. 

Three decades later, loss returns—her husband killed in a car accident. And so, Kris goes home to the place where she first knew pain—to that summer house overlooking the crystal waters of Lost Lake. It’s there that Kris and her eight-year-old daughter will make a stand against grief. But a shadow has fallen over the quiet lake town of Pacington, Kansas. Beneath its surface, an evil has grown—and inside that home where Kris Barlow last saw her mother, an old friend awaits her return.

Lesath by A.M. Kherbash

Published Date: September 2019
Genre: Horror
Synopsis: Locked in his dark cell, Greg lay awake in bed, fidgeting with the small cassette recorder, pressing the rewind and stop buttons to listen to the heavy click and spring-loaded clank that initiated and punctuated the faint whirring mechanics. He knew well enough no one was going to come looking for him―not while he was in between jobs, living in a four-door pickup truck, and had traveled to an undisclosed location without telling anyone. 

What brought him here were rumors of an abandoned building that was said to be part of a black site―rumors that were circulated amongst truckers and drifters: some exaggerated the sinister aspect of the place, detailing with morbid relish the methods of enhanced interrogation that were being developed or deployed there, while others assumed the contrarian position and downplayed the horrors, if not downright dismissed the whole story as hyperbole. Questionable as the lead was, the story seemed too good for an amateur journalist like Greg to pass up. All the same, he did not expect there would be some truth to those rumors, that the building is not quite derelict as he had imagined. And that, thanks to a case of mistaken identity, he was now incarcerated there as an inmate.

Do any of these books catch your interest? Are you on NetGalley? Let me know your thoughts!

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[kofi]