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Originally Posted by wetterau
You've put your finger on a major problem: reviews. How do you filter out the junk? Sooner or later there will be sites that specialize in reviews (maybe they exist already) in various genres. Any book reviewed would be presumed to be up to some standard established on the site. A short review would describe the content and slant of the book and add a brief reviewer's opinion. I would love this, as a writer and a reader. Maybe you could do this for historical fiction.
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I do have a book blog, and if I could find any historical fiction I think I'd be interested in reading, I'd read and review it. Some of my favorite books are of this type. I expecially like the ones where the author researched and tries to stick close to facts. But I have a hard time finding new ones to try. I get very sick of sifting through a bunch of romances set in the past, which I am very much not interested in reading (which is not to say they're bad, only that I'm not interested). I did buy "Pompeii" by Robert Harris which I haven't read yet.