Sometimes the review site icons in the Books You’re Reading section of the app don’t take you to the book on the review site, and instead show a message that there is no link available. Other times, you may get to the book on a review site (like Amazon) and it is in pre-order and you cannot review it.

In the first case, the reason for this is that many of the books that authors provide for us to send to our reviewers are not yet published, and they don’t yet exist on the review site.  In the second case, the book may be on the review site but in pre-order status. Sites like Amazon do not allow reviews on books that are on pre-order, and thus cannot be reviewed until their publication date.

In either case, if you cannot leave a review as soon as you’re done reading, just leave it for now. If the link is missing, we’ll update it once it’s live and send you a reminder. Generally the review dates we have for a book are when the book is due to be published (if it isn’t already), and thus you can check back then. In some cases, however, a book’s publication date is delayed and the author forgets to let us know. In those cases, we will update the forms with the new date as soon as we have it.

In the meantime, go ahead and reserve other books to read and review. Just don’t forget to come back to this one later!

Quick Tip: If an eBook on Amazon is on pre-order but the Paperback version of that book is already live, you can leave your review on the Paperback (or hardcover) version and it will get linked to the eBook version. That’s one way to leave early reviews on a book!