How to Write a Book Review.
Great tips for writing Book Reviews via Ronovan Writes – Lit World Interviews. A must see reblog. 🙂
Everyone has their own way of doing a book review and in a way that is how it should be. Always remember a book review is an opinion. That being said and out of the way, I do think there needs to be some common considerations taken.
I don’t believe published book reviews on volunteer sites should:
- Be for tearing down an author and that author’s work.
- Nor do I think a poorly written book should be praised.
- And being paid for a review just doesn’t cut it, unless you work for a site that has ads and also gets paid for the service of book reviewing like major newspapers or magazines. But that’s a job, not a volunteer thing. And even then, honesty is the best policy. For most of us, receiving a good book to review is a nice perk of book reviewing.
Poorly Written Books
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Book Review: Paris Syndrome
This just looks such a beautiful book, and it gets 5 star review from Galit at the Reading Bud, so reblogging it.
Author: Tahir ShahRelease: April 30, 2014 Series: None Genre: Fiction Edition: Kindle (Mobi) Pages: 3668 Publisher: Secretum Mundi Publishing Source: Publicist Buyithere: Amazon
Blurb
On the morning of her fifth birthday, Miki Suzuki’s aged grandfather gave her an unusual gift – the fragment of a story. The tale told of a magical realm where all the women were beautiful, dressed in the finest gowns, and where the men had the looks of movie stars. The trees were covered in ivory-white blossom all year round, and everyone was joyful and proud. This place, young Miki learned, was a city in far off Europe – a city called Paris.
The story took seed in Miki’s mind and, over twenty years, she became quite obsessed with the French capital. Having studied its history, language, and traditions, she vowed that one day she…
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