(First off, I want to apologize with how long this has taken me to get back into. I really should do a post at some point of; Hey I am back! Kind of. Maybe a little. But then that’s a given isn’t it?)
I am no blogging expert. I am learning as I’m going. Some things I fuck up, somethings I pick up. Most things I just wing it. Either way here 1 thing I’ve learnt as a book blogger part 35;
You can thank Orang-utan Librarian for the idea of this post. Her post is here; Link
So alright crazy lady what are you on about. Let me explain my brain. I think I am too nice sometimes when I write book reviews. (HAHaha me nice? *cough*) Yes, nice. See I get contacted a lot by Indie Authors, I bet you guys all do. But I tend to find I get contacted a lot by Authors who I like to call Baby Indie Authors, BIA. (Please don’t take offense by this, none is intended. If I was aiming for an offense I would have told you to fuck off.)
So what I mean by BIA; Authors who have just released their first book or have a few out but zero to under 20 reviews on Goodreads or Amazon. When I am the first person to leave a review for someone, I feel pressured to be polite and nice. Even if I just thought the book was a two-star ok. Because I know if I leave a not so positive review, anyone that Author then contacts for a review request, will see my review and maybe get put off.
Now if I strongly disliked the book or it wasn’t my cup of tea because of the genre, but I still gave it a chance. I always mention that in my review. It’s not you but me kind of review. We can’t like everything, can we?
Do you guys find you do this as well? Also would you guys like me to continue this series again?
This is a really good point. When I do blog tours especially, I feel pressured to be complimentary about the books, even when I didn’t especially like it. There’s a fine balance to walk between being truthful and being tactful; I’m still feeling it out!
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Same.
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I think it’s perfectly fair that you do this. When it comes to BIA (love that term!) I think a lot of us would feel the need to use kid gloves. Rightly or wrongly, I won’t review indie books unless I liked it, cos I know how detrimental a negative review can be in those circles (I maybe be willing to take the gloves off, but only if I know I’m not gonna be one of the only reviewers).
Anyway, great post! Also I really like this series! Thanks for linking to my post!
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Yeah… the pressure of being the first to post a review. Ouch! I’ve been lucky-ish as I’m so picky about which books I accept for review. The lowest I had to give a BIA (love it) was a 3 star… which really is a decent score.
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I seem to always get requests for books with no reviews or under 5.
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