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Originally Posted by Karellen
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 how and why do unwritten and unpublished books get a rating and so many reviews on GoodReads?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?? |
I'm absolutely astounded at this sort of false advertising, because yes that's what it is, false advertising. The "reviewer's" are asserting that they've seen enough info in a book to be able to produce a review. Except the book hasn't been written!!
Maybe a header above their review of "Spoof!" would identify its connection to reality.
Thank you OP for drawing this absolutely ridiculous practice to my attention.
I wonder if the sites where these types of reviews were posted were hosted in the EU if they could get away with it (without say a header saying "Spoof" or similar)
