Review: Should we just ignore the books we don't like?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
Okay. So I regularly look at the top 100 Amazon lists because of course this is where the cream of fiction is to be found.(No, don't laugh).Well maybe, maybe, in the paid. But in the free? Hm. The free chart seems a bit more... varied? So what to do when I find something I don't like. Ignore it? Should we only ever review what we like?This didn't seem to me a bad book, just very, very average. The plot was fairly boring, the world very derivative, and the writing style lapsed into cliche - frequently.But it does have a great cover.Now I feel really mean.Maybe the problem is this is a YA novel, and the author should write that in the description, so I could gave avoided it. Like the plague. (That statement was not meant to insult YAs - I'm just not one anymore.)In fact, I think this is a general Amazon category problem in fantasy and SF - how readers who want the next Game of a Thrones (i.e. me) can avoid the huge amounts of YA.