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Hi Evan,
Take a deep breath. Hold it. Now let it out slowly.
Do that a few times. (Don't go too fast or you will hyperventilate and that won't help.)
Now, consider: At this point in time the bad review looks like the very soul of discretion and reserve in comparison to your responses. You are not doing yourself any favours.
I mean that quite seriously. The reviewer has carefully stated their reasons for not liking your book. They did not attack you personally - I know it feels like that, but they didn't*.
But even if it had been much worse, you are expected to just let it go. I mean that.
Repeat after me: There is no cardinal rule for reviewers. They can say what they like provided they remain within the hosting website's rules.
As unfair as it may seem, you do not - ever - argue with critics. They have a right to their opinion, and a right to state it openly in their review. You gave them that right when you published.
Let me repeat that last bit: You gave them that right when you published. It's too late now to complain that people don't like what you wrote**.
The only thing you achieve by carrying on as you have is to convince everyone that you have a lot to learn***. Start now. Learn from this experience and try to do better next time.
(I am not even going to start talking about your suggestion that it is harder now than it was before. This is more demonstration of how much you have to learn.)
* The repeated use of your name in the review may make it seem quite personal, but everything said still comes back to being about the book and what the reviewer thinks, in their opinion, was missed or wasted in the story.
** If that was going to concern you, you should not have published. This applies to your books just as it applies to the posts we make here on MobileRead.
*** We all have to learn these lessons. You may think that I do not understand your situation because I don't, currently, have such a review on any of my books. But the fact is that I have had a very bad review - and I literally paid for it! It was a paid professional assessment of an early draft of my first published novel. It took me quite a long time to come to terms with some of what was said - and yes, some of it really did seem like it was personal. (It wasn't.) Some of it was the same as a problem you stated above - that the reviewer was trying to read a different story to what I had written. This, in itself, once I understood it, was very instructive. I had done something wrong to let this happen, and the changes needed led me to improving my book. It is a hard lesson to learn: take what is useful and leave the rest.
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