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"We're desperately trying to sell you this book we've pre-emptively awarded a prize because the author is one of our favoured, and since we're as original as a newborn AI, we're using these trite praise words in hopes you'll not notice that we don't really have anything good to say other than hyperbole, so... buy this?" :P

(No idea, really, but these empty praise blurbs/reviews are all like that.)

my goodness, I think you cracked the code!!

I believe they mean "starred reviews in national news organs of some repute," not the unprofessional but oh-so-good reviews one reads for free over here.

An aside: Since nearly every book published falls into either the 'hard hitting and unforgettable' camp or the 'lyricial and imaginative' camp, how original can it be?

You are probably onto something with the 'starred reviews in national news of some repute' because it appears--to my surprise--there are thousands of GR reviews for this book.

For a moment I thought they meant reviews of 8 stars and I was thinking "who uses 8 stars as their rating system?!"

lol i looked it up and it's seraphina. it's decent. one of her ya fantasy novels is very good though - tess of the road.

Morphing_kashi wrote: "For a moment I thought they meant reviews of 8 stars and I was thinking "who uses 8 stars as their rating system?!""

It's a blurb that makes no sense. Written by a non-writer, apparently.

l wrote: "lol i looked it up and it's seraphina. it's decent. one of her ya fantasy novels is very good though - tess of the road."

From the blurb, I was honestly expecting some hack job. Imagine my surprise when I saw the book had like 38k reviews or something! I think marketers and book-jacket writers should actually know how to write. I think they must be graphic design or business school majors and only write in bullet points.

Amazon always over do flogging stuff. They push and push for ppl to buy anything...