Before requesting a review, please read the following.
Info on our review... |
Our review will include a rating of the book, who we think would enjoy it (based on other books similar to that one), a summary of the book, and overall what we thought. If you are an author requesting a book review, we are also willing to include a short bio of you along with links to websites and social media.
(Note that all reviews will be posted on our website, Goodreads, and Amazon.) And yes, it does seem like we love a whole lot of books (we do). Please keep in mind that our reviews are always honest and unbiased, and reflect both our opinion of the book and whether or not we think the overall age range the book is geared towards would enjoy the book. And unfortunately, sometimes (though rarely) we will not like your book, and in that case, we will ask you if you'd like us to write a review or not, based on the knowledge that we didn't enjoy it. We never want to trash someone's book on our website, so if you send us a book and we rate it lower than a high four, then, like we said, we'll email you before we go forward with a review. |
Info on having us review your book... |
We'll ALWAYS take up the opportunity to expand our reading, however, we are only 9 and 12 year olds, so before asking us about reviewing your book, be sure that it would be age appropriate - which means no adult content, nothing too romantic, no excessive curse words, or anything extremely violent. YA is usually okay, but it can depend on the context. For more info on that, see the section on "criteria."
If you'd like to send us your book, a Kindle file is preferable, but mostly anything else is fine. Again, we prefer to do all of our exchanges online, but in some cases we will accept a hardcover book. If you would like us to receive a hardcover book, giving us a gift card for Amazon is a great option so we can purchase the book ourselves and have it directly sent to us. {Note: we are currently looking into getting a PO box in order to be able to accept hardcopies, but for the time being please send us PDFs or other digital versions of your book} It usually takes us one to six weeks after receiving a book to read it. Once we've completed your book, we’ll email you to let you know what we thought, along with when we’ve scheduled a review (unless you’ve requested a specific date for us to release the review). Understand that a review of your book could be released up until eight weeks after we've finished the book. This is due in part because we try to keep a steady stream of reviews and interviews on our website, so we try to schedule reviews ahead of time. |
Info on our criteria for a book... |
We Don't Accept:
We do accept self-published books, but they must be edited and professional in order for us to review them. We OCCASIONALLY accept comic books, depending on the content. Picture books (and this sometimes pertains to chapter books, too) are tricky for us, since our website is geared towards readers ages 8+. After much debating, we've decided to only have MG and YA books on this website, and ocassionally comic books and/or picture books. We will never accept picture books, but we will sometimes accept chapter books depending on the content. If you send us a book that does not follow our criteria, unfortunately, your request will be ignored. This may seem a bit harsh, but we just do not have the time to respond to every request we receive that we know we won't end up accepting anyway. If your book does not apply to the "don't accept" section, great! Feel free to send us a review request. In this case, we will always respond, regardless if we are all full up with commitments (see the below section for more info on that). |
Info on your review request... |
When requesting a review, please include:
Please understand that we are only two kids with very busy lives outside of KBR, so sometimes we will have to decline review requests simply because we are all full up with commitments. If so, we'll email you back letting you know we can't accept you request. We'll also ask if you'd like us to add you to a "wait list" so we can notify you when we are available. Please do not send us a review request more than once. If we do not respond to your original request, check back on this page and make sure your book follows our criteria. If it does and we still haven't replied, you may resend your request after a week, because we probably didn't get it then. |
Note that we do not ever receive any money in exchange for a review, interview, or for hosting a giveaway. We do, however, offer sidebar adds for products/books/websites related to Kid Book Reviewer, and other promotional/advertising options. For more info about that, click here.
{To contact us about reviewing your book, please email us at oliviaandoscar@kidbookreviewer.com}
