Gem4Life Yeah, that's right. If a story has nothing but positive reviews, I tend to suspect something. I prefer stories that have a mix of both positive and negative reviews because they provide a more balanced and overall picture. Of course I don't mean negative reviews that are just 0.5 or 1 star reviews insulting the writer or calling the story or characters stupid or retarded without actually explaining what they didn't like about the story or characters, it has to be legitimate and fair criticism, or I won't take such negative reviews seriously either.

      Gem4Life I was just asking because some people tend to read the first chapter and go off into a rant about how terrible the story is, and I think that's a bit unfair.

      And there are those who post nonsensical reviews like "WTF is this trash?!" when they didn't read the story at all (their reading status is Ch. 0).

          Tomoyuki yea, I feel you, I never do that. I always try to give the story a good read, I stopped reading when it came to the s*x scene cause IT made no since, and made me a little creeped out. And like I said I tried my best to be as open and honest with my review as possible.

            Gem4Life Yup, I totally agree.

            And I see why you stopped reading, ha ha. I probably would have too.

              Yea, I thought so too, but it was supposed to be the wedding night, just it was a forced marriage to a man who killed the woman's family, and then out of no where she was OKAY with sleeping with him, just because her body responded to him. I felt unwell reading that

                Gem4Life I actually prefer readers like you who honestly say their opinion on what the state of the story is, anyway, it's up to the author if he/she can't handle constructive criticism. I believe you have said your point nicely and so, it's up to the author is he/she will take it as a sign to improve more or not. Failure makes us grow, so is the negative feedback.

                    Gem4Life ...okay, that was just weird. I'm somehow reminded of many female protagonists in CEO stories who still "love" or stick by their husbands despite forced marriages, physical and/or emotional abuse, toxic relationships and even rape. It also makes me sick sometimes.

                        Aysel_Inara I don't feel comfortable making that public. I'm sorry. If you ever come across it, I don't think it'll be hard to figure it out.

                          For what it's worth, I have only received a single negative review on my story. I deleted it. I didnt do so because I cared about criticism. I did it because it contained a wall of graphic offensive content and a flurry of spoilers without being tagged for spoilers.

                          Dont be that guy (because they are always guys).

                            Gem4Life If this was an honest review, which allows the author to improve his weaknesses, strengthen them, then I welcome such reviews. If they are written in order to show the pros and cons. And not just reveling in their knowledge of English.

                            For example, my content is interesting, but the English language leaves much to be desired. I have reviews on three stars, I accept them normally. They were on one star, they just wrote there - that the novel is bad, that I, as an author, are bad, that with my knowledge of the English place I have no place on the site. I deleted it. Since he did not read the novel, he did not understand the essence, if my English were native, I would not laugh at other people with poor knowledge of my native language. As I would understand, the fact that a person is trying, wants to share his thoughts, and he will improve his language as new chapters are published, he will learn English in practice. No need for a person to take away interest in the language. Yes, he does it poorly, but you can understand the essence, one way or another. If it were not interesting, readers would not read.

                            If you are honest with yourself, if you respect yourself, then you will respect others. This is the norm. I do not delete such reviews, the rating is not so important to me yet, my readers and my desire to share information are important to me. Which I find interesting not only for myself but also useful for others.

                            I just wrote about this one small chapter in the work devoted to thoughts on writing novels. This is my subjective opinion.

                            Thanks.

                                How many stars did you give :star:

                                I'll think from the other side of spectrum.In my personal opinion ten chapters are not much to judge a story . Secondly, if it was the author's first novel,sure she'll feel bad about a review criticizing her story she put her heart on. They'll most probably improve as they write more . You should've given her a positive review, like 3 stars and telling her the things the story lacked and things she could do to improve .

                                  Nah I can't imagine a story where theres sex ten chapters in, even in a sequel. That story's pace seemed way off. I've read erotica, and the sex, like the 'secks secks', doesn't happen until right before or after the climax. This is because we've watched the two love interests develop and grow to like eachother, so it feels like we the reader are being rewarded for being with these two characters through the book. From what I understand, this chick was forced to marry this guy because he murdered her family. Yikes.

                                  At least make it like beauty and the beast, where they're alone together because of a good reason. Or make it interesting where right before the ugh... 'honeymoon' she stuffs a fork into her underwear and pokes his eye out. I'd read that. Please someone write that.

                                  We cannot decide that. A person should delete any kind of reviews or not is his/her decision.

                                  While I get your frustration, I can't say much because I do not know what kind of a review you had dropped.

                                  You read. You didn't like. You wrote a review stating the same. Your job is done there.

                                  The writer read. The writer didn't like. He/she deleted the same. Her job is done.

                                  Look honestly, I have got no reason to defend anyone and I won't do that either. There are a bunch of things in the world that we do not like. Again - that doesn't mean that they aren't good. (The reference is general.) They maybe good. They maybe not. It's a subjective thing but do we get stuck on something that we don't like? No, right? We move on and ideally, we should because that's not our stuff to change.

                                  A couple of things like the writer should be ashamed of not being able to accept the criticism is quite disappointing to read. You went too far really. At least that's what I feel. Come on, people. As humans, we have different capacities and capabilities. Not everyone can deal with criticism well. Not everyone can deal with negative comments well and it's okay. Sooner or later, everyone learns. Life has a way of teaching everything to everyone! Besides, we cannot force and teach someone who isn't willing to learn. Let everyone learn at his/her pace.

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