Review Policy

Hi! I’m Émilie, twenty years old and I live in Canada. Thank you for taking the time to read my review policy. I would be more than happy to accept requests from publishers and authors to promote and feature books already out or not. I would also be interested to host giveaways, blog tours and authors interviews. If you want to contact me, you can at thesmellofbooks@gmail.com

What I like to read

I accept physical copies (Hardcover and Paperback, ARCs, Galleys) and eBooks (PDF or for Kindle). I read mostly Young Adult and some Middle Grade titles. I enjoy dystopia, fantasy, historical, science fiction, paranormal, contemporary, romance… pretty much everything that falls under the YA category.

What I don’t read

I don’t read non-fiction, biographies, memoirs, Adult books, New Adult books, poetry. I won’t accept self published books either.

Reviews

Review books are always a priority. I will try to post the review one month before the release (or before/after if you tell me to), books that have already been release may take longer for me to post the review as I am also a student and I have a job. If your book needs the review posted by a certain date, please tell me and we can try to work things out.

My reviews mostly consist of what I thought and how I felt while reading the novel. Reviews can be negative or positive as it is my honest opinion, but if I didn’t like a book, I will always explain why and it will be in a respectful manner. I will post my reviews on my blog and on Goodreads. If there is anywhere else you would like me to post the review, please tell me and I will try to do it.

My reviews contain:

• the book cover
• the title
• the release date
• the series status
• the publisher with a link to the website
• where I got the novel
• the format
• the number of pages
• links to Goodreads, Amazon and the Book Depository
• a summary
• a score from 1 to 5 for the writing, the world-building, the plot, the characters and the romance
• the first line
• infos about the author
• the book trailer if there is one
• the rating
• and maybe some quotes

The summaries and the book covers used on this blog are taken from either Goodreads, the publisher, the author’s website or the book itself.

Rating System

My rating system goes from I didn’t like it to It was amazing. The third star means It was ok, it’s a good rating.