Tomoyuki Wouldn't that be just a big spoiler?
BTW in my review i just told people that might not believe me to just check some chapter comments And/Or even better to actually read the thing.

No need to have the review deleted.

    xcares Um, I think you'll find the purpose of the review is to help people decide whether they should read the story or not, not tell them to read the story and decide for themselves. And if you're worried about spoiler, use spoiler tag. Otherwise the review isn't going to help much. You need to elaborate why you think the story is good/bad or warn people what's in it or tell people why it's worth reading, not just leave a single vague sentence and tell people to find out for themselves.

    What you consider "stupid" or "moronic" isn't necessarily what others consider stupid. Elaborate why you think the main character is stupid (use spoiler tags if necessary) and leave it to the readers whether they agree or disagree with your definition of stupid (and I don't mean them reading the actual story).

    It's like an Amazon review, people go onto Amazon to check if the quality of the product they are considering to buy is worth the purchase or not. Just saying the product is poor without explaining why isn't helpful. People want to know why they shouldn't spend their money on the product, or in this case, why they shouldn't invest their time in reading. And vague reviews that don't actually give details or explain the statements/claims they make aren't something you can take seriously, because as I said, sometimes the insults and "criticisms" are childish rather than justified. You need to justify why you think it's bad/stupid, otherwise it comes away as little more than whining, and you might as well complain about it in the chapter comments than write a review, that quite frankly, doesn't serve the purpose of a review.

      It is so awful that we cannot have a civilised conversation. If there is anything that annoys me the most, then that's - bad choice of words.

      You make dozens of criticism regarding my book. You disagree with my every point. You find my perspective ridiculous. Everything is fine with me but the moment you go personal, do the name calling which I find sick and use adjectives that are completely uncalled for - you would lose me there.

      I mean what, people? Who are we? Kindergarten kids to forget how a conversation and discussion is done? It is disappointing to see that people are forgetting the very basic thing, the basic human respect towards each other.

      I am sorry. I have got no intention to offend anyone but please, learn to have a respectful conversation and also, learn to agree to disagree peacefully!

      OJROMANCE None of the reviews are "negative" - there certainly are criticisms, but they mostly sound positive.

      (1) The background is good And it's not pretty bad after reading 1-20 chapters. (3.5 stars)

      (2) But the idea of the story is good and I hope is will be better in the future chapters! (3.5 stars)

      (3) surely if u r looking for a fun read i think its a good one. The author did a good jod with character development except for the FL, the writing style is straight forward n the story has a good flow to it. And to conclude i really appreciate the FL best friend she is a sensible character. And every story has its charm n according to me the charm in this story r the background characters. (4.5 stars)

      (4) This is one of my favorite written story.I love historical romance and the choice of characters are great! (4.5 stars)

      Not even going to mention the troll review, which neither criticizes nor compliments, but gives you a 3 star (I wonder if you'll delete it if it was a 1 star review).

      Either you have no idea what a "negative" review is, or you're just shooting yourself in the foot. I honestly don't know what Gem4Life wrote, so I'm going to be neutral here and reserve judgement until I actually see her review for myself, but honestly, you're not going to convince anyone. How are 4.5 star reviews even remotely considered "negative"?

      Furthermore, you literally wrote at Chapter 10 "Warning: Detailed mature scene" and you had quite the explicit foreplay (and no matter how I read it, it seemed forced onto poor Nana, who didn't give consent, so it's pretty much sexual assault), so it's pretty dishonest of you to attack Gem4Life and accuse her of being a liar while not admitting that you did have the Emperor sexually assault Nana (and no, just because there was no penetration with his...uh...d, doesn't mean it's not sexual assault - and he used his fingers - sorry, everyone, if I gave too much info). Even if you claim that it's not sexual assault, it's still a pretty explicit scene that involves fingering and undressing, but why did you not clarify that? I don't think you're in any position to accuse people of lying.

      You need to be less biased and not pretend that high-rating reviews that positively compliment you are "negative" reviews. An example of a negative review is (2) but without the "But the idea of the story is good" and a complete lack of encouragement. Hell, the reviewer even gave you 3.5 stars, which is a decent score - a negative review would be 1 or 2 stars. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen a single 1 or 2 star review in your story at all. There is nothing lower than 3 stars and that belongs to that troll review that didn't even make a single negative remark, so I'm not sure if that can even count as "negative."

        Uhh... The fact that authors can delete reviews in the first place seems... Worrisome? Shouldn't they only be able to flag them and ask the platform to delete them?

          Thvar Lack of moderators and not enough manpower on the site to sift through so many flags, I presume.

            Tomoyuki Gem4Life
            Interesting. And presumably this adjusts ratings accordingly? I.e. deleted reviews don't count against you? Which means that ratings should essentially be entirely disregarded?

            That's annoying, but does explain some of the novels I've seen on here.

              Yes, you can artificially inflate your rating by deleting all the bad reviews. They no longer count, which is why the rating system doesn't mean anything here.

              Thvar That is correct. If a review is deleted, the rating is also removed.

              I got four chapters in and I wanted to go see my gynecologist. Mostly because the author had clearly never had a pap-smear nor a well-woman exam, and has no clue how uncomfortble they actually are. SMH. I really needed to feel the awkwardness of my husband to be, the murderer of my family, the girl(?) I had a crush on when I was younger and haven't seen in who knows how long, the murder of my family's right hand man, and whoever the hotdog else was there (names were being dropped like crazy), in the room waiting for the results of my hymen examination. wowee. get me off this wild ride.

              It was a really interesting place to start the story, but the first 3 chapters were so hard to follow, and then the hymooonnnnn examinatttiiooonn was resolved in one sentence. Wow I guess it wasn't a big deal then. I hope the doctor poked it with his finger, ruining the whole needlessly confusing plot.

              Cringe.

              The FL was just kinda in love with him because he was hot? Thats it? She was an outcast because her father betrayed the emperor? She was saved because she was usefull and not useful? Why didn't the emperor just add him to his harem? Why would you allow your son to marry the daughter of a traitor, the daughter of the man you murdered? Ah, because the author says so. Its just like that! Us stupid simple minded readers would never understand the complications of a young woman who's essentially being sold into slavery and forced to marry a complete stranger. But it's ok because the guys a prince! Beautiful people can't be mean or abusive! It's not possible! Only ugly people and poor people can be bad! Stupid readers... too dumb to understand that every bad thing a character does can just be ignored because of their status and a six pack!!1!
              Why think about yourself, about your flaws as a man when you can just look in a mirror marvel at your beeutifteee!
              Why be worried about the future when you were just kinda hand waved into the royal family, even though you were a traitor and have literally no one? You're pretty, the girl(?) you're in love with is pretty, and your husband is just... a god amoung men!

              I'm going to puke. This is some nasty tea.

                Lilliny To be fair, if your father betrayed the Emperor, I'm pretty sure you'll be branded as an outcast because of your familial association with him. That happens a lot in reality.

                A lot of your points are valid, though. I'm not sure why the Emperor ever thought it would be a good idea to marry his son off to the daughter of a traitor (wait, I'm confused, I thought the Emperor was the one who married Nana, did I misread something?). Normally the politically correct and logical route to take is to kill her, to tie up loose ends and to ensure she doesn't plot revenge and all that stuff real Emperors are worried about.

                And yeah, the male lead's behavior disturbs me. A lot. "Oh, I don't want to hurt you but I end up hurting you anyway. It's okay, though, because I never intended to hurt you, so all is forgiven!"

                  Lilliny

                  Wait, excuse me? The story STARTS with a "hymen examination"?

                  Off to an auspicious start, it seems.

                    Tomoyuki Well the reviews that had a proper list of positives and negatives right along with explanations about my grading, have been deleted.
                    Some of them automatically by wn itself and the rest by the authors.
                    Cause they don't care to have a negative review on their front page and neither does wn.

                    What both writers and WN need are average positive review scores above 4.
                    There are atrocious novels that have 4.8 and 4.9 rating just cause all the negative reviews are deleted and the fake positives keep piling up.

                    That's my understanding formed by seeing almost all the negative reviews deleted.

                    Why bother spend the time?
                    It's more fun to see people actually asking around about the reasons things work this way in WN XD

                      this is the best tea that I've read all week, please continue. :grin:

                        Clowniac you know, honestly, I think being an asshole when the other person you're dealing with is an asshole is a perfectly acceptable scenario. eye for an eye is always great drama. ;)

                        Clowniac

                        I haven't really found anything wrong with what you say either. I find it rather amusing.

                          xcares Ah, damn it. I can understand your frustration then. It must be really painful when you spent all that time to type out a well thought out review, listing what you both like and dislike about the story, only for the writer to callously delete it. It feels like a complete waste of your time. I hear you on that one.

                            OJROMANCE
                            Ok so, I read all the way to chapter 51. I was gonna write a scathing review reflecting the anger I felt for trying to read something that was clearly ran through google translate a few times. But around chapter 35 I realized Nana could be replaced with a pomeranian dog. After that I just stopped caring. Your main character has so little agency that I could mentally replace her with barking, and nothing, I'm serious, nothing changed. She had no agency at all in the story, shes just dumb. Everyone else seems to be able to come to their own conclusions about things that happen or things they learn, except her. Why?

                            And shes dumb. Did I mention that? She goes from fearing for her life and being disgusted by the ML's touch who molested her the night before, to skinny dipping with him the next chapter. Why? Why did you write this? These two human adults were acting like they were dating and flurting and all that, even though Nana felt fearful about telling her husband 'no'. She literally says that she feared he would beat her...

                            He also negs her during this chapter, calling her boring for not wanting to get naked with him even though he had molested her (he put his fingers UP THERE, :pray: ON JAH :pray: ) the night before.
                            Also, when you wrote the previous chapter from his POV, he very clearly didn't see her as a person with human emotions until she shouted at him and mentioned dead people. He excuses her because his (or her? its unclear) own mother had children at 17 and she, NANA, an 18 year old woman, just didn't know any better.
                            This is a grown man, talking about his wife, who he says he loves, and who he wants to have sex with, treating her like she is a child who never learned table manners. This is gross, on so many levels. Its not sexy. At all.

                            And the villans are soooo, dumb... it hurrrrtttss aaaaaaa.....
                            Why would you have a secret conversation within the palace, appearanly near enough to where Nana sleeps for her to just wander in on.
                            Why would a solider risk his life to frame Nana's brother, when he didn't get any parties thrown for him (am I reading this right?)
                            The motivations for these characters are so goddamn flimsy, and our cute little pom is just along for the ride most of the time. She acts like she just in the crook of someones arm... all the time. Shes just so flat...

                            Ok, so after her brother is not executed for a really confusingly explained reason ( a triple cross or something??), he monologues telling her and her handler Jandi (Jan-di?) in summary that theres mysterious goings on and that Nana's new owner the Emperor is in trouble. Oh and that his mom is actually his godmom, so he can't be evil.
                            Grateful that her previous owner (I-I mean big brother) didn't die, she does a 180 about how she feels about him, pushed further by the negging of her Emperor.
                            She decides shes ready to take the peen, and the sex lastes 20 seconds.

                            I'm pretty sure our dear author has never been in a healthy relationship before, or has never had good sex before. Or both...
                            TLDR, you are in dire need of an editor. Seek help.

                              yaoyueyi
                              I wanted to be sure I was right. I was :heart:.

                              Clowniac
                              I'm pretty sure this author is like..14 or something. They censor the sex words!!! Who does that?

                                She's Nigerian. I suspect her first language is Hausa or Yoruba, but I could be mistaken. It does explain why her English might sound weird to someone whose is more used to American English or British English. This is not to say Nigerian English is bad - it's just a different dialect in the same way Singlish is a weird dialect of English conceived in Singapore. So if you're not a local, it might be difficult to catch the naunces or whatever.

                                I'm going to play devil's advocate and point out that you being able to read 51 chapters before you hit the paywall is a sign that her story still managed to hook you nonetheless, which is far better than some stories where people can't even read past the first couple of chapters. However, it's not good enough for you to be willing to spend spirit stones on it.

                                  Tomoyuki
                                  I'm gonna be real with you man, I was reading out of spite and boredom (I work at a call center). But! That does not change the fact that her story is written poorly, her protagonast is flat, the ML (I can't remember his name I am soooo sorry) is a toxic person who doesn't see his wife as a human, just as a sleeve.
                                  The entire story procedes whether Nana says no or yes (she always says no btw). The only time she says yes is to THE SECKS, and thats after everyone around her tells her its the right answer.
                                  Why are you apologizing for this author? Why can't a work be in poor quality? Especially when said author has the nerve to @ as many random people as possible and plug her work. Even after is appearant that they only leave positive 3+ star reviews up for users to see?

                                  Who cares if shes Nigerian? Does that excuse her behavior? Does that excuse her poor writing? Should it?

                                    Lilliny Oh goodness, you actually read the 51 chapters? Gosh. I don't mean to be rude but even I was going to check the story but couldn't really go beyond the first chapter.

                                      LostInFictions
                                      Chapters 8-11 made me physically nauseous. I felt like I was reliving all those times older men made me feel uncomfortable. But, if the author's dumb enough to tell me I'm wrong until I hit 51, you bet I'm gonna be right. And a four and a half hour shift.

                                        Lilliny I'm not apologizing for her or saying her work is good. I'm merely offering an explanation as to why her writing appears bad or childish (you were guessing her age is 14 and wondered who censors sex words - perhaps Nigerians do?).

                                        I do agree with you that the male lead is extremely toxic and I find his treatment of Nana absolutely disgusting, despite his claims that he loves her (very important case of how show, not tell should be employed). And I also agree that Nana is a one-dimensional, flat main character, and that the story is...well, poorly written. That said, I'm in no position to criticize other people because my own writing skills and language are awful as f, so I can sympathize. Sympathy does not equate to denial, though.

                                          Lilliny I am so sorry to hear that but then, I guess that's just a part of being a woman and it's awful. We all have been in the same place at some point in time in life. One has to be lucky enough not to go through the same.

                                          I didn't go beyond the first couple of paragraphs I knew how it was going to be and this is not what I prefer to read. I am sorry if this hurts you, dear author, but your ratings honestly surprise me. Even if I consider that a bunch of people truly liked your concept but full marks for writing when you clearly have grammar issues?

                                            Tomoyuki
                                            Nah its ok, Nigerians probably do be like that... but even so.. why write a novel with secks in it then? You don't have to answer, it just boggles the mind is all....

                                            LostInFictions
                                            I had to reread the first couple of chapters because I 100% thought Nana was 10, and I was just trying to figure out if I skipped some sort of indication of forward movement in time. I did not... the summary says that shes ten and that in the future she'd end up in the palace, so I kinda thought it would start when she was 10. Thank god I figured it out by the skinny dipping saga, becasue I was really close to reporting it Webnovel.

                                              Gourmet_DAO If you're writing an English novel but your grasp of the language is poor THAN an editor is a MUST! It can drop a potential 4 or 5 star novel down to 1 to 2 stars just food for thought!

                                                Tomoyuki I wonder why you would say that! Somehow, for some odd reasons, I don't really think that you write as awfully as you claim to do.

                                                  His writing is really good, its just the readers on this site aren't used to actual characters whom they can't live through, so they get butt-mad. Tomo is a god cliche-er, somehow turning something I've seen so many times before into a story thats interesting and fun.
                                                  Uh, I mean... the story is bad.. and... why is main character so dumb?! hmm? fix now! make him like me, or else!

                                                    Lilliny I see but yes, it truly hurts when readers fail to understand the characters the way, we, writers want them to do. It absolutely hurts. Not that I am saying they are obliged to but, it hurts when they don't.

                                                    I remember, there was this story that I was writing. I have always had a thing for perfect or near-perfect characters so I ended up creating a man who my readers went crazy over and I had expected the same but somewhere in the process, they forgot that the story was more about the female protagonist than him. They overlooked her pain and one day, when he made probably his first mistake - she decided that they were over. Now you might judge her here and anybody who hasn't read it would do because unless one reads how their characters and situations have been, one can't understand her decision but when my readers, who have read the tale, didn't understand and approve her decision - gosh, it had made me feel so bad... so bad that I can't even put it in words.

                                                      Tomoyuki are any of your stories on WN? I'd love to read them... Lol if you don't mind that is

                                                        Lilliny wow you read 52 chapters! I'm truly impressed. I know it wasn't for me, but anyway Thank You, I feel a little vendicated. At least someone else saw what I saw.

                                                          The synopsis sounds really interesting, I'll check it out 👍

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