Review: Great review writing guide for beginners and experienced levels!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
What I liked about this book was how the author managed to educate an experienced author and reviewer on the subject of writing “fair and unbiased” reviews. His instruction experience is obvious because the book can help beginning reviewers as well as experienced and his tactfulness in the pages helps those that are struggling with creating a review for a book they didn’t particularly care for. One of the quotes in the book; “There will always be books that we don’t like, but honestly realize that these same books will be very useful (or entertaining) for other people. To exercise restraint, and not rate a book 1 star, even though the book is useless to us, is a mark of a mature book reviewer.” Really struck a chord with me and made me wish everyone had to read this book before they did their first review. This can be used for books (fiction and non-fiction) but the advice can also be used for other product reviews as well.To be fair I am an author and I’ve received a few negative reviews myself. I also have author friends that have received negative reviews and I’ve read many of them, mine and theirs. Far too many of them seem more like a personal attack of the author not an honest and unbiased review of the book and/or content. The people reading the reviews when trying to decide if they’ll buy the product usually see right past those unbiased reviews, especially if the product has far more positive honest reviews and only a handful of negatives. The author of this book touches on this as well as many other topics around the art of reviewing.I did receive a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and would highly recommend to anyone I know readers, authors, bloggers etc. The author does a great job of pointing out, there is more to writing a helpful review than one thinks.