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		By: Authors Discussing Reviews &#124; Rainy of the Dark (Rainy Kaye)		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] article about reviews as well and linked to this post. We took our conversation there. Check it out here and join [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] article about reviews as well and linked to this post. We took our conversation there. Check it out here and join [&#8230;]</p>
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		By: Readers: What authors really want from you &#124; Graeme Ing, Writer		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] also have said &#8220;to write awesome 5-star reviews.&#8221; Yes, please. I&#8217;ve spoken about reviews before, and we all know that lots of good reviews sell more [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] also have said &#8220;to write awesome 5-star reviews.&#8221; Yes, please. I&#8217;ve spoken about reviews before, and we all know that lots of good reviews sell more [&#8230;]</p>
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		By: Jen		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve written quite a few reviews. If I enjoyed the book I will write one. If I didn&#039;t like it for the most part I won&#039;t review unless I was mislead by the blurb or it didn&#039;t make any kind of sense at all.  I don&#039;t really like the star rating system. I have a hard time trying to decide which one would best fit the book. So most of them end up with 3 stars unless it really stands out to me.
 If a book has nothing but 5 stars rating it does make me iffy about purchasing it. I find it highly doubtful that every single person that read the same book would all have the exact same opinion.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve written quite a few reviews. If I enjoyed the book I will write one. If I didn&#8217;t like it for the most part I won&#8217;t review unless I was mislead by the blurb or it didn&#8217;t make any kind of sense at all.  I don&#8217;t really like the star rating system. I have a hard time trying to decide which one would best fit the book. So most of them end up with 3 stars unless it really stands out to me.<br />
 If a book has nothing but 5 stars rating it does make me iffy about purchasing it. I find it highly doubtful that every single person that read the same book would all have the exact same opinion.</p>
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		By: Graeme Ing		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-338&quot;&gt;Yolanda Renee&lt;/a&gt;.

Your last point is an interesting one, Yolanda. I&#039;ve heard others say that too, so perhaps those first dozen glowing 5-star reviews aren&#039;t family after all. :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-338">Yolanda Renee</a>.</p>
<p>Your last point is an interesting one, Yolanda. I&#8217;ve heard others say that too, so perhaps those first dozen glowing 5-star reviews aren&#8217;t family after all. 🙂</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 03:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I do review books, but not all the ones I read. If I like them I review and always for authors I know and like, but are truly talented. I read a lot, but don&#039;t review everything, especially authors who already have 100&#039;s of reviews.  And I never review a book I don&#039;t like, it is subjective, I&#039;ll leave that for the experts - if there is such a thing. I have a TBR list that is massive and I want to do the goodreads thing better, but the time consumption is just too much. I try to encourage others, but so many simply don&#039;t want to or know how! I&#039;d give anything to have family write reviews - heck I can&#039;t even get them to read the books. I&#039;ve begged - it doesn&#039;t work! LOL]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do review books, but not all the ones I read. If I like them I review and always for authors I know and like, but are truly talented. I read a lot, but don&#8217;t review everything, especially authors who already have 100&#8217;s of reviews.  And I never review a book I don&#8217;t like, it is subjective, I&#8217;ll leave that for the experts &#8211; if there is such a thing. I have a TBR list that is massive and I want to do the goodreads thing better, but the time consumption is just too much. I try to encourage others, but so many simply don&#8217;t want to or know how! I&#8217;d give anything to have family write reviews &#8211; heck I can&#8217;t even get them to read the books. I&#8217;ve begged &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t work! LOL</p>
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		By: Graeme Ing		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-336&quot;&gt;Christine Rains&lt;/a&gt;.

That&#039;s a good point. If it&#039;s not your kind of book should you review it. I say yes if you believe the blurb or cover was misleading but otherwise it doesn&#039;t seem fair to review something you aren&#039;t interested in. But that begs the question why was the person reading it? Clearly something went awry? That&#039;s like me buying a dress and then giving it a bad review because I looked silly in it :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-336">Christine Rains</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a good point. If it&#8217;s not your kind of book should you review it. I say yes if you believe the blurb or cover was misleading but otherwise it doesn&#8217;t seem fair to review something you aren&#8217;t interested in. But that begs the question why was the person reading it? Clearly something went awry? That&#8217;s like me buying a dress and then giving it a bad review because I looked silly in it 🙂</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-333&quot;&gt;Graeme&lt;/a&gt;.

I had someone recently leave a 2 star review for THE MARQUIS and they said they didn&#039;t finish reading it. I don&#039;t know if that&#039;s fair to leave a review then. She just said it wasn&#039;t her thing and that was it.]]></description>
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<p>I had someone recently leave a 2 star review for THE MARQUIS and they said they didn&#8217;t finish reading it. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s fair to leave a review then. She just said it wasn&#8217;t her thing and that was it.</p>
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		By: Christine Rains		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wonderful post. Yes, I do review books. I made it a point this year to leave a review for every book I read. Some might be just a few sentences, but it&#039;s a review. As for bad reviews, I try to be constructive and say if it truly wasn&#039;t my thing. Reviews are subjective. I do pay attention to them, especially if I&#039;m unsure if I&#039;ll enjoy a book or not. As an author, I want to know what my readers think. Be it good or bad, I want to know!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonderful post. Yes, I do review books. I made it a point this year to leave a review for every book I read. Some might be just a few sentences, but it&#8217;s a review. As for bad reviews, I try to be constructive and say if it truly wasn&#8217;t my thing. Reviews are subjective. I do pay attention to them, especially if I&#8217;m unsure if I&#8217;ll enjoy a book or not. As an author, I want to know what my readers think. Be it good or bad, I want to know!</p>
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		By: Rainy Kaye		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-331&quot;&gt;Rainy Kaye&lt;/a&gt;.

Yeah, that is a tough one for Amazon because they are limited in ways to control the review exchanges. But, as you said, it&#039;s not really fair to authors. Considering authors are readers. . .There&#039;s no easy answer.

Same goes for GoodReads removing reviews that discuss the author and not just the book. It&#039;s a good try, but some readers do calculate the author as an individual as part of their decision making process. It wasn&#039;t quite as obvious before the Internet, but now it&#039;s pretty easy to see who is a jerk and decide not to support them. That&#039;s valid too. Not to mention, they didn&#039;t remove the positive evaluations of authors and then received backlash for that too.

No win lol

I&#039;m not just skeptical of the tit-for-tat reviews, but reviewers going after other reviews just for having an opposing opinion of the book. I really don&#039;t have time for such theatrics.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-331">Rainy Kaye</a>.</p>
<p>Yeah, that is a tough one for Amazon because they are limited in ways to control the review exchanges. But, as you said, it&#8217;s not really fair to authors. Considering authors are readers. . .There&#8217;s no easy answer.</p>
<p>Same goes for GoodReads removing reviews that discuss the author and not just the book. It&#8217;s a good try, but some readers do calculate the author as an individual as part of their decision making process. It wasn&#8217;t quite as obvious before the Internet, but now it&#8217;s pretty easy to see who is a jerk and decide not to support them. That&#8217;s valid too. Not to mention, they didn&#8217;t remove the positive evaluations of authors and then received backlash for that too.</p>
<p>No win lol</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not just skeptical of the tit-for-tat reviews, but reviewers going after other reviews just for having an opposing opinion of the book. I really don&#8217;t have time for such theatrics.</p>
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		By: Graeme		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-328&quot;&gt;Catherine Stine&lt;/a&gt;.

That&#039;s another interesting point, Catherine: Should you review if you don&#039;t finish the book? I have done so and have seen others do it. I hate slow books so I pay attention if a lot of reviews complain about the plot moving too slowly.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/commentary/do-you-review-books/#comment-328">Catherine Stine</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s another interesting point, Catherine: Should you review if you don&#8217;t finish the book? I have done so and have seen others do it. I hate slow books so I pay attention if a lot of reviews complain about the plot moving too slowly.</p>
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