Review: A Brilliant Guide to Writing Book Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2014
I have read several books written by Thomas Baker. I am so glad he chose to write a guide to book review writing. A good book on this topic was long overdue.The basic rule of writing a good review, according to the author, is to follow Amazon's guidelines. Your review should provide answers to these basic questions: WHAT did you like or dislike? WHY did you rate the book as you did? WHO do you recommend the book for?The author states at the beginning of the book "...you can modify and adapt, finding your own style, after observing mine." Reviews should be "fair and unbiased to both potential readers and authors", Mr. Baker goes on to state.Reviews should not be personal or biased. Rating a book one star must be done respectfully without attacking the author. A review is about the book and its content, not about the author. Mr. Baker states, "A review that makes personal, biased remarks against the author should not be considered as valid."This book is full of so much useful, thought provoking information that I read it twice. Although I have written over 240 book reviews in the past year, I gained a lot of useful knowledge from this book. I highly recommend this book to everyone who writes book reviews.  I rated this book 5 stars because I believe anyone will be able to write better reviews after reading this book.