That could well be. Bad reviews do happen. Especially from apprentice reviewers.
Confession: I write book reviews on a regular basis as a professional matter and am joint book review editor of a Caribbean studies journal (recently started doing that -- it costs me money posting books to reviewers, as well as time chasing down dilatory scholars; I need to employ a kneecapper or two, methinks). My worry is the writer whose amour propre is so injured that s/he decides to sue for libel. Hasn't happened yet, but it might, if I encounter a book that's truly bad. I haven't yet, though I just sent in a review of a book of poems that included some of the flattest love poetry I've ever read.
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Date: 2009-07-07 11:39 pm (UTC)Confession: I write book reviews on a regular basis as a professional matter and am joint book review editor of a Caribbean studies journal (recently started doing that -- it costs me money posting books to reviewers, as well as time chasing down dilatory scholars; I need to employ a kneecapper or two, methinks). My worry is the writer whose amour propre is so injured that s/he decides to sue for libel. Hasn't happened yet, but it might, if I encounter a book that's truly bad. I haven't yet, though I just sent in a review of a book of poems that included some of the flattest love poetry I've ever read.