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It's great to hear it resolved but there's a couple of things that should be noted concerning this for future reference. Using another person's internet handle does not constitute identity theft and it is not illegal in any way. If you have trademarked the handle then using it without permissions, assuming you have reserved all rights, might become an illegal act. Copyrighting a handle isn't possible.
Posting anything on internet sites today might very well mean you grant them limited or entire rights to what you post. I doubt any country is willing to entirely strip an author of his/her copyright but signing up and clicking "Yes" when confronted with the terms of service and thereby granting them rights to re-post the content is a concept that has already been ruled on in many countries. That's the main reason why many sites have those "you swear to indemnify us if you post copyrighted content on our X, Y or Z".
Kind of amusing, really. They want us to indemnify them when they use content we've posted, so they don't get in trouble if they use our content (without asking us first) and it turns out we were quoting someone else who had copyrighted it. Oh, what a world we live in. This obviously wasn't what happened here since goodreads wasn't the party propagating the review, just saying in general.
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