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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I hope this helpful post is read by lots of people who are readers rather than writers. Those are the folks whose reviews we need, but they are less likely to write them than us quill-pushers.
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Indeed Audrey 🙂
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You forgot the most important obstacle, how to write a negative review and still staying polite despite having paid for a book, having invested the time to read the boring/badly written thing …
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When I come across something like that, I stop reading it, don’t leave any reviews and usually don’t ever read anything else by that author 😦
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Yes, just happened yesterday with me. Somebody wrote a crime novel, I thought, I’d give it a try, but she kept changing perspective (IN ONE SCENE, not throughout the novel, that is not uncommon) and it got so annoying that I sometimes had to reread things to know whose perspective it was. The last straw were two sentences which made it sound like a not very gifted essay writer back from school days … I gave up after 44 pages. But this definitely keeps me FROM reviews.
Every author pleading for reviews should be aware: The people who do not review might just not have enjoyed their novel. Do authors really want to read scathing criticism? Readers are no editors – their review will say something like “I liked it” or utmost “It was not my cup of tea” – who is helped by this?
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Many thanks Chris.
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Very Welcome Rosie 😀
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