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Originally Posted by Loosheesh
By contacting the site, do you mean the bookstores where the review is posted? How would I prove that the review is mine? I don't suppose they'll take it down just because I say it's mine 
I've had some contact with the author, and I wanted to give this person an opportunity to fix the 'problem' without me having to do anything further. I read the author's book, rated it 5 stars and commented on how much I liked it. The author sent me a friend request (which I accepted), then a few days later very nicely asked me if I would care to write a review. I wrote the review, trying my best to convey what the book is about, what I liked so much about it, and what few concerns I had. After I posted the review, the author sent me another message, to thank me for the review and express pleasure with what I wrote. I got another message a little later, asking me to switch the review to the ebook edition as the paperback was out of print. That was sum of our interaction.
I don't want it to look like I'm making a fuss over a review that's probably substandard compared to the really good reviewers out there, but I've only reviewed 3 books on Goodreads, and this one was my first. I have a hard time expressing myself so I struggled to put my thoughts into words; this review was kinda special to me and it really irks me to see it places where I did not put it  |
Ahh, that is substantially more complicated than the initial impression I got from your OP. Rather shocking that a writer, of all people, would do that. But humanity is frequently shocking and not always for the better.
In that case, yes, contact the author.