Review: Excellent Advice for Mostly Fiction Reviewers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
"How to Write a Book Review" by Rebecca Graf is only 834 locations but covers pretty much everything you'd need to know when writing reviews for fiction books. I thought her book itself was very well written.Basically, Rebecca Graf believes a review should be more like a critique. She discusses how we as reviewers should not attack authors personally and how we should try to find something positive even in a book we are not one hundred percent interested in. It in doubt she recommends being kind.The book has mostly advice about reviewing fiction but she gets to a small section on nonfiction too.Some things I may have disagreed on would be having to read an entire book that you don't like. The advice is more cautionary, as in you might like the ending. Still I think a book that does not interest from the start might not be a good book and you might not want to waste your time. If you have more time then I'd say go ahead and read the whole book to form a more well rounded opinion.I will say this, at every turn the author recommends professionalism. She would rather you write constructive criticism instead of bashing an author.I will say that Rebecca Graf is a woman after my own heart. I think a lot like her and I avoid all the types of books she avoids. This book is so good I almost wished I'd written it first. But like I said she focuses mostly on fiction and I write reviews for nonfiction most of the time.I can highly recommend this book to anyone writing fiction reviews at amazon or on a blog. This will give you the basics of a review structure so you can see how to proceed in the most professional way possible.I'll definitely be telling others about this great book. It is very needed and can be read quickly and applied immediately.~The Rebecca Review