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Originally Posted by M T McGuire
That sounds bang on. I've just written a review for a fellow Smashwords author. I felt terrible giving him 4 stars for one of his stories. It was much better written than anything I can do and he'd given me 5 for my book. In the end, though, I didn't like it enough to give it 5, although I'm certain sure other people would.
You see what a tizzy I'm in? And yet I truly believe you are right, the stars aren't important, it's whether or not you write something positive, constructive and honest. Which I hope I did.
Cheers
MTM
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I am so with you there. I do give stars, but if readers look at my smashwords page and can see why I may rate a book with a certain number of stars, that helps explain me a bit. Usually as I read a book for review, books just strike me as being worth a certain number of stars. Someone else reading the same book may have the same comments, but think it's worth a different number of stars. I think I put more weight to originality and writing style than I've seen some other reviewers do. Writing style can make or break a book for me. If I find myself thinking about the writing style and what I don't like about it, or rewriting it in my head, while I'm reading the book, that's not good. I can't get into the story that way, I can only think of how I'd revise it if it were mine.