I got a 1 star #review on my latest book yesterday. I’m trying to figure out how this happen, purely on a technical aspect. I’ve never sent an ARC to anyone named “Alexander.” Also, this person only has 15 total books read on their #GoodReads profile. The other 14 a different genre, then there’s my book. Best theory I can come up with is this person didn’t want to ruin their pristine account by giving a 1 star so used another account to do the dirty work. #writingcommunity#author@bookstodon
@ashtardeza@bookstodon I hadn’t considered that, but it does make sense. Even before I published my first book I learned never to publicly respond to reviews. I’m not about to respond to this one. It’s just hard because I’ve had horrible luck getting reviews this time around, even from people I’ve worked with in the past. Here’s the review in question https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6019656388
@dickrubin716@bookstodon interesting that it references plot points, which suggests they did in fact read the book.
It does read like they tried really hard to sound like actual critique, but it's also cleary a hit piece. No actual review is this exclusively negative.
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