Everyone is a critic
I've been reading different author's views recently on reviews. Reviews are needed. We all agree on that. Amazon won't promote you unless you have them. An author puts their heart and soul into their work so have a little respect when you're leaving a review.
Some books are really terrible. Some are mediocre at best. Some are good and some outstanding works of art that you just want to read over and over.
One author in her description put don't read the reviews so I didn't. The description was great. The book was 14 pages. I have never returned a book. I paid $2.99 for 14 pages. I returned the book and left a review that said read the reviews. In this example, that isn't fair. She was a decent writer too.
I've had my fair share of bad reviews. Recently had the one where you can't even finish it the reviewer marked it at 36% I forget what it's called "DNF" I believe. I didn't even know that existed. Who does that? Why would you even care enough about doing that to an author? Is that important? If she had read the first book she would have understood understood the character's personality in the second book. Anyway, this isn't about me.
Reviews, are subjective. What one person reads another may or may not agree with but they can also hurt a books chances of getting purchased by someone else.
What is this about trolls? Does that even exist? People actually do bad reviews on purpose? Or another writer does a bad review for another author on purpose? A lot of the writers I interact with are very supportive of each other. I'd like to think that we all are that way.
My practice is usually not to review an author's work if i can't give it less that a 3. I have been disappointed in an author that I really like and gave it a 2 on rare occasion but I explained why. I always leave a text review with the stars explaining what I liked about the book and didn't like about the book. If you are giving the author a 2 at least tell them why you are giving them a low rating. I'm never personal. I never tell them to go back to their day jobs. That just isn't kosher. Don't be mean.
I always try to leave the positives and the negatives. There has to be something positive. i really didn't like a book recently that I read. It had too many holes in the plot. The couple didn't even get together until the last chapter or two. I explained that just didn't work for me. The positive note was that she was a really good writer.
So maybe this is my Pollyanna mentality in a world where everyone wants to be mean to each other but hey writers have feelings too. It takes a lot of guts to put our work out there for the readers to love or hate.
Some books are really terrible. Some are mediocre at best. Some are good and some outstanding works of art that you just want to read over and over.
One author in her description put don't read the reviews so I didn't. The description was great. The book was 14 pages. I have never returned a book. I paid $2.99 for 14 pages. I returned the book and left a review that said read the reviews. In this example, that isn't fair. She was a decent writer too.
I've had my fair share of bad reviews. Recently had the one where you can't even finish it the reviewer marked it at 36% I forget what it's called "DNF" I believe. I didn't even know that existed. Who does that? Why would you even care enough about doing that to an author? Is that important? If she had read the first book she would have understood understood the character's personality in the second book. Anyway, this isn't about me.
Reviews, are subjective. What one person reads another may or may not agree with but they can also hurt a books chances of getting purchased by someone else.
What is this about trolls? Does that even exist? People actually do bad reviews on purpose? Or another writer does a bad review for another author on purpose? A lot of the writers I interact with are very supportive of each other. I'd like to think that we all are that way.
My practice is usually not to review an author's work if i can't give it less that a 3. I have been disappointed in an author that I really like and gave it a 2 on rare occasion but I explained why. I always leave a text review with the stars explaining what I liked about the book and didn't like about the book. If you are giving the author a 2 at least tell them why you are giving them a low rating. I'm never personal. I never tell them to go back to their day jobs. That just isn't kosher. Don't be mean.
I always try to leave the positives and the negatives. There has to be something positive. i really didn't like a book recently that I read. It had too many holes in the plot. The couple didn't even get together until the last chapter or two. I explained that just didn't work for me. The positive note was that she was a really good writer.
So maybe this is my Pollyanna mentality in a world where everyone wants to be mean to each other but hey writers have feelings too. It takes a lot of guts to put our work out there for the readers to love or hate.
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