I've come across review sites in one of three ways:
* I've followed up some from people here on MR because I've been interested in their comments on books they've read and mentioned on the "What are you reading now thread".
* I've followed links from book websites to reviews to see what they had to say.
* Most recently I did a Google and reviewed hundreds of review sites (including most of those on the site you linked above) - with a view to contacting some about reviewing my book. They're not hard to find. What's harder is finding a match. So many YA or romance only review sites. So many sites that operate for half-a-dozen books and get sick of it. So many sites where the existing reviews lead you to suspect the reviewer is unlikely to like what you've written. After all that I found half-a-dozen I thought worth contacting.
If I was better and more enthusiastic about this sort of thing I'd probably have done up a form-letter and sent out a blanket request to all of them regardless of what I thought of their reviews. But, for the moment anyway, I just went with the few I actually liked. I'm not going to list them here because I don't want them to think I'm either criticising (for not accepting
) nor crawling for attention (in the hope they will eventually
).
And, of course, like anyone that puts themselves in the public eye, reviewers get swamped with requests, so most don't even send an acknowledgement that they received the request (for all you know you might have gotten kicked out by the spam filter - but to keep sending doesn't win you any popularity contests either), unless they decide to review the book.
But I do I think the author promotions thread
here on MR should go on the list. You see some authors there get readers acknowledging their books, and there's a sticky thread of "Blog/Website/Review site" in there that's worth visiting.