A Review Too Deep? Debbie Bennett
Ah – that thorny old subject of book reviews. Our own Ali Bacon recently covered this topic , but I’d like to embellish that post, if I may, with some new information. I saw this link on a facebook post the other day. This shows a new type of review procedure that Amazon is apparently trialling. Now us Brits are often last in line for anything new on Amazon, but asking around, I found that it’s not the rumour-factory working overtime and people are indeed being presented with this new-style option when leaving a book review on Amazon.com. So this is a whole new can of worms. Readers are being asked, for example to rate the sexual content of a book: Seems fair enough, doesn't it? You can let potential readers know whether the book contains sex or not - warn people in advance. And No sexual content seems straightforward enough, I agree. But what is the difference between Some and Explicit ? Erotica is expected to have heavy sex scenes, so would a weak erotica novel ...