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Thanks to NetGalley for offering this preview of upcoming book releases! I enjoyed that featured books include summaries, the book cover, and publication details, plus the link to request the full book on NetGalley. The excerpts were too much for me though; I preferred reading just the intro summaries and jumping to publication details. Overall, a solid book of previews with excerpts of some of the biggest books of spring/summer 2025.

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This was my first exposure to this publication and series. Heads up, more than likely, I will always give this 5 stars. I love this highly informative and exciting advanced preview of the upcoming season's titles!

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Thank you @netgalley for the Advanced Reader Copy of Buzz Books 2025. I love these early sneak peaks into upcoming books. Hope you will keep them coming!

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Always so grateful to get these peeks at what's to come! The selections continue to be fantastic and keep me looking forward to the next season of releases.

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Always a treat to read snippets of anticipated upcoming books. Thank you NetGalley and Publishers Lunch for the opportunity to check them out.

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This was very helpful! I enjoyed learning about these books and. have read a few. A few more are on my to be read list. Thanks for sharing these helpful seasonal recommendations lists.

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Buzz Books is an utterly fantastic thing! The selection of excerpts was outstanding - the editing team is doing a fantastic job of choosing who and what to showcase, all pre-pub so if you love getting things ahead of time (probably why you're here at Netgalley) Buzzbooks are another small joy. While yes, these are only samples meant to entice you into reading entire books, they're also a really great way to just get a short read in, get to know authors' voices that I didn't know before, etc. I discovered the Buzz Books youtube channel because of this, which is also awesome as it features talks and discussions with authors and editors of the samples you get to read.

Life got really busy for me for a minute so I'm reviewing this long after the fact, but had I been more active on BookTok and bookstagram back then, Buzz Books would have been really useful for creating some content, too. Next time!

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It looks like there are some great books coming out soon, my tbr is overflowing! Thanks NetGalley for the preview!!

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I love this teaser of books that I must add to my to be read pile. I love these samplers as they give enough to tease the reader into wanting to read all the books.

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This is a wonderful handbook granting readers the opportunity to review future treasures without having to sift through the complete list of literary works. Overall a packed tool that for sure guarantees many successful reads and must haves. Highly recommended for pre-ordering and reference material.

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Buzz Books Spring/Summer 2025 was very useful in helping me find books to preview for the podcast and my blog. So many titles I would not have found without it. The samples are a wonderful way to determine what books are more likely to be successful for me. Thank you!

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The book was a great preview of some of the super exciting titles of 2025! I recommend it for people who aren't sure if they want to buy the book or would love an insight into a particular author's much-awaited book.

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Thank you for the preview! I added many books to my TBR list and requested some on NetGalley Ann’s through my local library.

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This was an excellent way to get a preview of what was coming up for the spring/summer season. I hope this is something that comes out every season, because while there were a lot of books already on my radar, there we also lots I discovered that I had not yet heard of.

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As always, I have found buzz books to be incredibly helpful to point me in new directions as to the books I would like to check out and read/review in the future. It is a wonderful service for us all, even if you just want to read the excerpts!

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I love reading these. I can be hesitant at times to read outside of my preferred genres, but these samplers provide the perfect bites for me to try, and luckily enough I almost always discover something I know I wouldn't have picked up otherwise! An example of this was my personal favorite: Bombshell by Darrow Farr. That one is definitely added to my TBR.

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Another wonderful look ahead to what is coming in the world of Romance. Looking forward to many of these titles.

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This is such an incredible feature of NetGalley - I will definitely be downloading these moving forward.

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These Buzz Books samplers are always great. Love seeing the new books being released and enjoyed quite a few extracts.

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I like when you do this because it gives me the opportunities to read books for actually If I.
Want to read more. I like how you divide the sections up especially the new authors. This gives them a chance to see how people react to the writing. The non fiction one is good too.Because I want to see other sides of people.

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