Nancy, kudos on a well-written post on this. That said, my own feeling is that as a reviewer, the responsibility is imho more on the reader's side. I'd go for 'protecting other buyers from wasting their money' every time, even if it meant 'crushing the heart and soul' of the author, simply because the customer is the one being asked to shell out money there, and the author has willingly put their work onto an open market, and that means it's fair game. Frankly, I think more indie authors *could* be financially successful if they stopped thinking of the work as their 'baby' and started thinking of it as the straight commercial product it is, but that's just my bias
