Smashbomb

I have a bit of a list for you guys this time. Hope you don't mind!

- Is there any way to change what the post says when something is shared on Facebook? I've tried sharing Giveaways and Lists and both are shared with an image of Smashbomb's logo (that part is fine) along with text that says "Join the social network for reviews". I would love it if it said what it linked to such as "Giveaway for Amazon Fire Stick" or "Check out this (insert title here) List". I just doubt that my friends would click a link that just says "Join this social network", they're more likely to click something more specific. The links directly to movies seem to look fine, something more similar to that would be great.

- Will you be adding a way to rate magazines/periodicals/ongoing comic series? That could be a very cool feature. Obviously, I doubt rating every issue would be a good feature... but at least the periodical overall.

- A link to all of a user's reviews on their profile would be awesome. Something separate from ratings since I would rather look at someone's complete reviews than their ratings sometimes. And, since there are a lot more ratings, sometimes it's hard to sift through them all to find a review.

- When adding videos there is a period of time we need to wait for it to be reviewed by Smashbomb. The video is posted after this period of time, however, it is posted way back in the feed when it was originally submitted. It would be much better if it were posted in the timeline at the time of its approval by Smashbomb. This way other users could see them and they won't get lost in the timeline.

I think that's all for now. :)

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Show all 5 comments.

Bird (1704 KP) Jul 13, 2018

It is a category within books ??

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Katie (868 KP) Jul 13, 2018

Oh yeah, I've used that however it only seems to apply to trade paper back and hard cover collections of comics. It'd be great to be able to add an ongoing series that hasn't been or won't be collected into a single volume. Maybe this is already possible and I'm just confused?

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Debbiereadsbook (1678 KP) rated Altered (The Made Ones Saga #1) in Books

Aug 14, 2019

Altered (The Made Ones Saga #1)

Vicki Stiefel | 2019 | Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

wonderful read!

Independent reviewer for Archaeolibrarian, I was gifted my copy of this book.

The Eleutians are a dying race, their female number has dropped so low, there are few children born anymore. So the Alchemic Clan devise a scheme to take women from the alternate universes they have discovered. Kit is one such woman. After falling down, she wakes up in a place she doesn't know, in a body she doesn't remember having. Rafe, of the Wolf Clan, finds Kit and makes her his. But there are bigger forces at work here, and Kit makes the difficult decision to walk away from Race, even though the thought kills her inside.

Different!! Very good different too.

A bit paranormal, a bit magic, a bit sci fi too. Quite a tricky one to tag outright.

There is, quite clearly, a much MUCH bigger picture to this story, and sometimes, it's so bloody hard to see it! Everyone has a say, Rafe and Kit mostly, but some others who really do need that voice to give you a bit of that bigger picture, for things to mostly make sense.

I did get a bit lost sometimes, though, in the world as a whole, and the people in it.

BUT!!!

A very well written, well delivered tale that I would love to follow up on, since the book is labelled as a saga, there will be more to come. How many?? I don't know, but I suspect at least 2 more, to include Kit's sisters. Couple of hints to other pairings, that may or may not be wishful thinking on my part, but we can only wait and see!

A good solid 4 star read

**same worded review will appear elsewhere**

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Phil Leader (619 KP) rated The Blake Mistake in Books

Nov 8, 2019

The Blake Mistake

I. C. Camilleri | 2013 | Crime, Thriller

7.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

Ben Blake has a talent that can occasionaly help in his job as an intelligence operative. When he forsees a terrorist attack he asks his friend, brother in law and former bad boy Jake Snell to help him prevent it. However Jake is starting to behave oddly, including having periods where he is not aware of what he has done. Could the suppressed memories of his traumatic upbringing be the cause? Meanwhile his wife (and Ben's sister) Emma is delving into Jake's family history. Maybe the secrets of the past are best left alone.

Camilleri aims high with this book - and delivers. It is a complex mix of whodunnit, psychological thriller, paranormal thriller and romance. The plot moves forward dragging the reader with it, the threads and lives of the characters spiralling around the central theme of Jake's past and how it is impacting on the present. There are a number of twists and turns, some as surprising to the reader as to the characters.

The characters themselves are well drawn, benefitting from having developed over previous books (which don't need to have been read to enjoy this). The way the relationships between them change and develop as suspicions arise and certain events occur is excellent, although sometimes frustrating as the reader sees the story from all their viewpoints so can see that sometimes there has just been a misunderstanding or that if something was said everything would be different.

The first third of the book is a little slow as the characters are described and the situation is set up but this allows the rest to move under it's own terrible momentum towards the climax.

Overall a book worth reading and it certainly holds the attention once it gets going.

Caution: Some sex scenes