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Old 09-25-2022, 05:53 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Karellen View Post
Today I finished The Day of the Triffids "trilogy", so went hunting around for another book to start reading in the next couple of days.

We watched the movie "The Host" a few days ago which I enjoyed, so I thought I would give that a try. I saw it available at Amazon, but I was surprised to see it is part of a trilogy.

Hopped over to GoodReads and, yep, it is part of a trilogy... https://www.goodreads.com/series/46642-the-host

While The Host has only a 3.85 rating, the sequels look pretty good...
The Seeker has a rating of 4.09 with 1,946 ratings and 324 reviews
The Soul has a rating of 4.12 with 1,094 ratings and 62 reviews.

So imagine my surprise and frustration when, after wasting half an hour hunting around trying to find where to buy these books, (as Amazon don't have them for sale), to realise that these books have not even been written, let alone published.

So... how and why do unwritten and unpublished books get a rating and so many reviews on GoodReads?
Talk about misleading... here it is.

Are these generated by bot??
That's just seriously bad policies by the staff at Goodreads. They are allowing books to be listed that are not even written and they allow people to give star ratings and comments for them. These two books do not exist and are not being written. I suggest you go tot he librarian forum and post the problem with the listing for The Host as it should not be listed as a series. You may need to give proof that this book is not part of a series and here a link to Meyer's website to show that's it's just a single book. Other books in a series are listed as such on her site.

https://stepheniemeyer.com/project/the-host-book
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