GBAS Meet Up: What makes (or breaks) a book review?

Name: GBAS Meet Up: What makes (or breaks) a book review?
Start: 2026-04-11T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Exclusive Books Waterfront

Schedule

Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Exclusive Books Waterfront | Cape Town, WC

Capetonian club members, Exclusive Books at the Waterfront have invited us to spend an afternoon in their store chatting about reviewing books.
Join us and join the conversation, we'll be having an open and honest round-table chat (although I think theirs is rectangular) about what we all think makes a good book review, what makes a hatchet job, who has the right to review, spoilers in reviews and so much more.
We'll be talking blurbs, big book buzz and brutal honesty.
So if you have an opinion, tricks, techniques or questions, or you just want to hang out and chat books and reviews, see you there.
📆: 11 April 2026
⏰: 14:00
📍: Exclusive Books V&A Waterfront

Paige Nick is founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society and host of Book Choice
Twanji Kalula is a ghostwriter and Book Choice reviewer on Fine Music Radio Inc.
Riley Herbert-Henry is a Book Choice reviewer, book influencer and podcaster.
And Beryl Eichenberger is a Women’s Zone librarian and reviewer, as well as a seasoned book reviewer on Book Choice.
Come join the conversation, and help us figure out what makes or breaks a book review.
Will we see you there? And if you have any reviewer questions you'd like to hear discussed, feel free to drop them in the comments below, or come share them on the day.