BookishlySonia’s Reviews > Bring the House Down > Status Update

Ok so you both suck as critics

“People like reading bad reviews. Readers get bored of too many races, and nobody ever wants to read a three star fence sitter. Three stars isn’t even a bad review! Three stars is good! He was sick of explaining this to people. Because nowadays in the context of a mass culture of online shopping reviews, for most people, five stars has come to mean the baseline, rather than the outstanding” 3 stars is mid 😤