Sunday 29 April 2012

Best Book Review Ever

Last week's review had me chuckling; this week's almost had me crying.


A RETURN TO TEBOW RANCH: WHERE THE WOMEN ARE CHILDLIKE VIRGINS AND THE MEN ARE MISOGYNISTIC FUCKWADS.
This is going to take a while, so fasten your seatbelts – it’s going to be a long and wild ride. Like getting your bra strap caught on the fake horns of a mechanical bull and you can’t get off until someone takes pity on you and unplugs the damn thing.

While I was mostly crying with laughter at the scathing review a part of me could cry that not only did someone write this crap, but people are reading it and, apparently loving it!  After last week's review I looked the first book up on Amazon and was startled at the number of positive reviews it had.  This week's is no different.  It has 23 reviews and sixteen of them are 5-star reviews.  It's the same on Goodreads.  The book has had 70 ratings and 30 of those are 5-star, 25 are 4-star ratings.

If these reviews haven't been paid for by the author, is it safe to assume that most of these readers are like this week's 'heroine'?  Dyslexic to the point of being functionally illiterate, but still able to read romance novels.  It brings a whole new meaning to 'read it and weep'!

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