A couple weeks ago, COERCION appeared beside THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN on Amazon's Best Seller List at the same time my wife Elena was reading it beside me in bed. I did a cutsie Facebook post on this, and enjoyed my moment next to Paula Hawkin's sunshine.
Today, I woke up next to TGOTT again. This time on LAZY DAY BOOKS weekly review. This week's COERCION followed last week's TGOTT. Both were very thoughtful reviews, so my hat's off to the team at LAZY DAY BOOKS, and to fate for bringing us back together. You can check them out here.
The contrast in these reviews got me thinking about the difference between "good" and "my style." As an author, I read a lot of reviews, and find that people frequently confuse those two. Since authors bleed when we hear "bad" or see small numbers of stars, please consider whether what your really mean is, "not my style" and skip the review.
Why critique a book that wasn't intended for you? I'd likely give almost any teen-dystopian-lesbian-vampire-romance 1 or 2 stars based on my style, but that's not helpful to the intended audience, and it hurts the author, which you don't want to do. In my experience, even T-D-L-V-R authors tend to be pretty nice.
As for TGOTT, I'm looking forward to our next encounter. I read somewhere that these things tend to happen in threes.
