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11/12/2024 Which types of reviews help you decide what books to read?
Not 5 stars one if I am honest. I saw these posts on threads where people talked about how 4 star reviews are bad and negative and I was all wtf?! Sure I read 5 star ones, but I do not buy books from them. Some people are real, but then there are those fake 5s.
4s are great. They tell it. 2s are also great. Oh you did not like that? Well good for me, I love that. I really need the full spectrum. I could never get a book if it only had glowing reviews. I need the bad too. I need everything.
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If I'm trying to decide on a book using GR, I'll look at the top, mid-range, and bottom reviews.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good way of doing it
DeleteThe star rating doesn't matter to me, it's the sound of the book to me. I sometimes like books that others don't.
ReplyDeleteExactly, a review tells so much more than a rating
DeleteI tend to buy into reviews on book seller sites that are less than five-stars, too, when I don't know the reviewer. LOL, I've read books that someone else hated, too.
ReplyDeleteI have a serious problem trusting some 5s ;) There are of course good ones out there, but then there are ones that obvi have not even read the book
DeleteYes, I'm skeptical of a bunch of 5 star reviews, too. They seem to happen a lot for indie authors with "street teams". I'll be ignoring those. I look for the 3 and 2 star reviews to see what issues readers had, to know if it's anything that would be annoying to me.
ReplyDeleteI need to know issues. People are different and like different things
DeleteAnd sometimes I just try one person and go for it
"2s are also great. Oh you did not like that? Well good for me, I love that."
ReplyDeleteHaha, that's how I found some of my fave books, so...
I read reviews with the lowest rating first, actually - then proceed onto the highest.
I tend to start low too, those lows tell me so much
DeleteI feel like 5s are so 50/50. 4s feel more honest. Like it's great but there is this small thing. A lot of people's 4s become my 5s. lol
ReplyDeleteThey really are! So many times they tell me nothing either
DeleteI think it's always interesting to have all kind of reviews
ReplyDeleteI do need it all
DeleteI think I gravitate towards 3s and 4s mainly. Too many 5s is a red flag for sure.
ReplyDeleteSuch a red flag. Everyone does not love the same books
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