Please visit Amy’s blog here to make your comments: http://www.myfriendamysblog.com/.
If you’re a reviewer of any kind of CBA fiction, it’d be good to hear your thoughts on this subject. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, my posting comments don’t register on her blog. So here’s my response to her post:
If I participate in receiving free novels which I do, I feel obligated to review them honestly. Recently I’ve had to do some not-so-great reviews of a few novels because I thought they were amateurish. One of them had an unfeasible plot, and the other was just very poorly written.
Personally, as an author myself, I don’t hold up well to rejection so it’s difficult, unpleasant even, to review books that don’t satisfy me. I try to be kind but still reveal the weaknesses that I see. Like you, Amy, if I’m not the target audience, I make that clear. It’s no fun to give a bad review, but also like you I am obligated to speak the truth in love.
I checked others’ responses to these particular novels and found a lot of people loved these books. Readers are an eclectic lot. Not all of us will like the same things–that’s for sure.
Father, we all need to be respectful and note that others can disagree with us. My last intention is to slander any other writer. Help me to speak carefully. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
*Addendum: I don’t get all my books free. I buy a lot of them. Those I buy I may or may not review. Definitely if I like them, I’ll review them. If I don’t, most of the time I won’t.
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