How does are y’all getting your requests for books?

As a new to netgalley reader, my review rate is at 0% due to only having one book I have started but have not reviewed as I haven’t finished the book or chosen to DNF.

Because of my low review rate, other books I have requested to read are being denied, and I do get the feedback that they prefer readers with a review este of at least 50%

Is this one of those cases where I will have a better chance at getting the books I request after I finally finish my first book and review it? Additionally, what type of feedback or reviews do you all leave on netgalley?

Lately, I feel like I am just wasting SO much money on books. And it is upsetting me how I’m looking back on the majority of books I’ve read this year and my only thought was ‘what a waste of money.’

I keep having countless bad reads. I just finished a 1 star book, and now I have started a new book which I already hate only 13 pages in. I cannot get a refund or an exchange either.

It’s starting to make me lose my passion in reading and I don’t know what to do about it, because the last time this happened I went into a reading slump that lasted over a year.

All of the books I pick up that I think match my taste just end up being something I really hate. I don’t know the last time I picked up a book that genuinely stuck on my mind.

I like fantasy, with slowburn romance that doesn’t take up the whole plot. I like plot heavy stories, which rely more on worldbuilding than romance. I like kings, princes, monarchies, kingdoms and warriors with medieval settings. I don’t like sex heavy books, I like books that have no sex scenes or scenes that last less than 3 pages without going into graphic detail. But I don’t really like YA, I like adult.

I don’t know what to read, everything is just really disappointing me and making me think that reading is a waste of money.

Edit: I have just DNF’d a book that I bought TODAY. I had only been 18 pages into it but I couldn’t bare it, it was awful. I’m so mad and frustrated because I just wasted £10 on something that I couldn’t bare. I was only 1 and a half chapters into it. This is the last time I’m buying a book for AWHILE now. I’m going to try to go to my local library soon.

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