BookSirens Reviews 9

I had high expectations for BookSirens, but my experience was extremely disappointing.

They offer two pricing plans. The first is $10 per book upload plus $2 for every reader who downloads your book. The second plan is $100 per year and is marketed as ideal for authors with multiple books, with wording like “submit as many books as you want.” That sounds great — until you actually pay.

After subscribing to the annual author plan, I discovered they would only accept TWO books. Their explanation was that they “don’t have space to promote more titles.” In other words, the “unlimited submissions” claim is misleading at best.

What made it worse is that I only learned this after spending two full days uploading and preparing all 12 of my books. Only then was I told I could only publish two of them under the plan I had already paid for.

When I contacted support and pointed out that this felt deceptive, the response was cold and indifferent. They basically said they could recommend other services and didn’t seem to care if I left.

This is not honest marketing, and it’s a frustrating experience for authors who invest time and money into the platform. I cannot recommend BookSirens based on how they handle their own pricing promises.

This site can be pretty helpful. However, it's very difficult to get ARC readers unless you're promoting it somewhere else or paying the subscription. Overall, I would recommend it in certain cases, for example if Netgalley is too expensive!

I am a self-publishing author of 5 books, and I write this review about BookSirens voluntarily.

Having dealt with a large number of companies during my publishing journey, I can confidently say that the support provided to authors by BookSirens is unique and outstanding.

Not only because they provide us with the opportunity to present our books in front of readers who have volunteered to read our particular genre, but more so because of the complete journey of presenting our books for reviews from start to finish, which is easy, professional, and works seamlessly.

Add to that the immediate response and assistance that you receive from their support team. I can keep going on, but one last point is the extremely nominal charges that we pay for the reviews, and no charge for reviewers who are referred by us to share their reviews.

It is simply the best system for new books to help authors in their pre & post-launch campaigns, and I thank the Team for their professionalism and cusromer care.

I've used BookSirens for two of my books and I'm on the third one now. I've had nothing but a good experience. They're very reasonable in price and I have expanded my audience. So far so good!

Why offer a service, if you cannot actually accommodate offering the service? I don't get it. It is incredibly unprofessional and discouraging. Thank you for nothing, BookSirens.

I reviewer, in their comments to me included saying that I showed "...I had not bothered to hire a book editor..." along with a laundry list of grammatically incorrect suggestions. The book editor "I did not bother hiring" is a graduate from UC Berkeley editing program, graduating at the top of her class. The reviewer included a few insults in the private message to me. I started making changes based on the comments and when I showed them to my book editor, she told me many were incorrect so I had to go back and undo the changes. Finding the reviewers FB page, I could see she had a high school diploma.

Why are all book review services so meh? Book Sirens has a straight forward and easy approach to uploading and making an author account, but it cannot give you results. My book was up for a year on their services, and not a single soul touched it . I know what you are thinking: this guy's book must be horrible. And maybe I've tapped into the perfect formula for a book that repels readers, but no one will touch it, not even out of morbid curiosity. It can't all be my fault.

I sent in another book (which is getting rave reviews) and BS tells me that it is not an Advanced Reader Copy so they rejected it. When did that change? My previous book was not an ARC, and it was accepted. I guess I am dumb for trying them again.

Apparently, this site does not accept Christian books and refuses to justify their decision to reject them.
Is this discrimination? If so, it’s a serious issue.

I love the idea of these websites. Many work well. I spent quite a sum of money forwarding my books for review and had one review back after 4 months of trying with Booksirens. That was 3 stars, and although I paid for the review, the reviewer did not wish to give a written review. The company prides itself on honest reviews, but I find that successful accounts bring in their own reviewers from social media and the likes. For those who are independently seeking honest reviews, I found they do not get a fair service.
I tried a variety of books with BookSirens, but this one mediocre solitary review sat on my Amazon account for months, and it took ages to budge it or improve on it. Overall, not a positive experience