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LostInFictions thank you, cheers to you also

the review system was not implemented for you to critisize and give low stars to novels. It was made so wn can show how many 4 and 5 star ratings they have on their site.
reviews which are lower than 4 stars and contain sound criticism get deleted either by the author or wn. so why bother.

Gem4Life title drop

Clowniac want me to be that first gal? hehehehe

Reinesse

If you give a genuine, heartfelt, reasonable critique, and have the good sense to flag spoilers, then I couldn't be happier to have you review my work, glowing or not! <3

ah it looks like our author deleted my review... time (try) to write a new one! :heart:

Lilliny

Godspeed, you damn maniac.

Clowniac
Her avid fans kept telling me to delete it lmao. And then the author, even though they said they wouldn't, did... They were right that out of context the review was mean, so now I can just write a longer one thats not mean. At all. Nope.

Lilliny wow, you're gonna rewrite it? I just wrote off the book and the author. Too discusted with her display

Reinesse what do you mean?

Gem4Life
Right now, I'm on the fence about it. Her book is bad and she doesn't want to take any criticism so she can improve. And shes clearly just milking her audience. As I think about it more and more, I might just write her off too. Its no fun if the author just goes back on their word...

Lilliny You should just let her do her thing. I think you are wasting your time by doing that as she will only delete your review again and again. Since she does not want to improve then let it go. Not many contracted novels are earning a lot. They rely on the guarantee system most-if not all of the time.

TheBlips
Yeah no point if shes just gonna delete it over and over. :negative_squared_cross_mark:
An actual time sink. Even I'm not willing to do that.

TheBlips I agree. You cannot help someone who doesn't want it. It's futile to even try.

Lilliny you could copy your review and keep it in a notepad/doc, so every time she deletes, you can just copy & paste the review. then it would be a competition to see who's more stubborn lmao

LostInFictions True. Also some people find it hard to accept that some people are criticizing their hard work. As a new writer, I remember crying after i receive my first constructive criticism. I mean... I know my grammar is bad but having someone shove it in my face hurts. hahahah The truth hurts and not everyone can cope with that. Which is sad since we need constant criticism to improve and grow.

Lilliny yeah, I figured. that was just a fun suggestion :joy:

Lilliny Yea, just think of you as being stung by a mosquito. If she wants to live in a delusion that everything she does is eight then let her. She'll find out the hard way

Gem4LifeA post which is clearly taking about her book. You're indeed an idiot. She deleted just your review and I thought she deleted your life.

Halona

Last I checked a review represents the view of the reviewer, and it pertains to the written works, not the author. What bloody moron expects the reviewer to actively start defending an author?

Go home, look up the word 'review' in a thesarius and apply that new knowledge. If you don't understand the word thesarius there are probably kind people on this thread more than willing to explain in terms of words with two wovels or less.

[unknown] You're so childish and stupid.

The irony in this statement is just...wow.

Just so you know, I read OJROMANCE's book and I didn't write a review, nor did I "shittalk" it, so before you jump in and start insulting me for being stupid and insulting other people, make sure you're not just lashing out at everyone who merely disagrees with you.

before_after lol from your words,I feel like author didn't say he'll get his powers in first thirty chapters and work for his revenge. Maybe he wanted to grow the characters before doing it

Halona

While I agree with you that a reviewer had better stay away from a disliked genre I'll clearly state that you're plain wrong as far as the other subtopics go.

Given that I'm able to (in my role as a reviewer) present a succint, albeit subjective, opinion about a given work a review will contain at least the following:

1) character depiction
2) narrative
3) adherence to genre
4) good and bad points of the story within the scope of the genre for its supposed demography

Observe that the language used normally isn't part of a review, unless we're talking literary fiction, since mastery of the language ususally is taken for granted. Poor spelling, grammar and sentence structure is basically something new that came along with webpublications. Basically those stories would never pass through the very first filter in traditional publishing.

I did write that a review is subjective. It not only has to be, but it is supposed to be as well. A review is the reviewer's personal opinion about a work, backed up by more or less valid credentials as a reviewer. In the world of reviews some people have a better, or rather more powerful, reputation compared to others. In that sense it's the same as for authors.

For that very reason a reviewer will seldom make it known that they know the author. That kind of relationship undermines the validity of a review, in as much as a review could ever be valid to begin with.

Now, as for opinions about content, making it clear that a story is disturbing due to being "rapey or incest" is perfectly valid. A review is primarily written for other potential readers. It's reader faced, not author faced, and its function therefore is to give a new reader an idea about what is to be expected. If a story carry a set of human values which go contrary to the norm you'd expect to find that pointed out. This would be true no matter if the values presented are worse or better than the norm. Since there's a difference from some kind of standard values the reviewer will implicitly clearly make his/her views of that standard known.

Even if a story makes it abundantly clear that there will be a huge body count concerning innocent people a review that voices an opinion about the depiction of those killings is clearly doing its job. A reviewer stating that a work is a disturbing piece of disgusting crap because it glorifies the raping of recently killed humans is perfectly valid. Reading the review I get an understanding that the reviewer firmly believes there's no excuse for presenting said violations in a rose tinted light. I may or may nor agree with the reviewer (well I personally would agree) and either pick up or not pick up the story based on that review.

The main mistake with the rant I'm currently replying to is that it carries the notion that a reviewer owes the author anything. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reviewer, if owing anyone anything at all, writes for the readers -- the reviewer being one him/herself. As a reviewer I should avoid the idea that an author is some kind of special snowflake and focus on what I believe are the credits or demerits of a story. Nothing else.

Halona I don't think that was what happened, and she (not he, you would have known if you read the thread carefully) was joking and not serious.

Gem4Life yeah that doesn't even add up.... Girl seriously, your body responded and thats it...really girl, really.

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

I can't

I come back randomly and just think, srsly?

Anyways, all you guys have said your piece, so let's just drop it. I'm sure the people that come by here and don't post have a feeling as to who's right, so no need to add on to anything.

Halona this is the only time I'm gonna address you cause from your replies I can tell you are very childish and immature. I am not the author of any book, the author in question did come on and attack everyone. Even though no one becides me was talking about her book
Most were trying to see both sides (you would have known that if you had read the actual posts), If the author had come and attacked me only then there would not have been such a big issue. As you have a right to post a reply, I also have a right to air out my grievances when I feel I was wronged.

Also, I don't know if you're black (I am) and I don't care, but please stop using the N word in your posts, cause I find it very offensive and I WILL report you.

yaoyueyi very funny, ha ha ha! Clap for yourself for you just won the best adviser of the year, I can't believe I read your book and now, i know why I couldn't gift or finish it.

Halona, you have been reported. Also for everyone present on this thread, I have sent an email and asked them to delete this thread. I am not one advocate toxic communication and I feel that this post has become a magnet for those type of people. So if you come and see that this thread is taken down (hopefully), then that is the reason.