A Five Star Blog Post
23 August 2010
My publishing house recently sent me a whole slew of reviews for my recent release, So Over It. Lots of wonderful people took the time to read and thoughtfully review the book, of which I’m super appreciative.
Something I find amusing are those who insist on rating the book by the oh-so-scientific “star method.” Fortunately, most seem to have a clear idea of how the stars should work. If they write a review with lots of phrases like, “BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!! I READ IT IN 2 HOURS, IT WAS SOOOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!!” they usually give it 5 stars. But I’ve seen at least two reviews for my books that were along those lines, and then they gave me 4 stars. To which I was like, “So, on your system the ‘best book ever’ gets 4 out of 5 stars?”
Occasionally I get the very frustrating combination of nice review, sucky stars. They’ll say lots of nice things about the plot, the characters, the style … and then hand it 3 stars. Or yesterday I saw a really nice one that then finished with 2 stars. Seriously. The tone of the review was such that all three comments to the post were things like, “Wow, I’ll have to check this book out! Thanks for the recommendation!” So apparently they didn’t notice the 2 stars like I did.
Since this is a semi-cranky blog post, I’ll leave you with something flat-out funny. This is a video my husband sent me. It’s from an Astros game a couple weeks ago. This guy is all set to catch this foul ball, chickens out at the last minute, and it hits his girlfriend. I laugh every time I watch this. I’ve got to work it into a book.
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