I am not one to give negative feedback. It is not sometime that I was made to do, I just cannot let myself write something that I don’t want to read myself.

Feedback is good, the good and the bad. But when someone bluntly reviews a book without any thoughts and just shams the book, makes me so frustrated.

Someone has spent year’s possible working on the book and to have someone just sham it like no tomorrow would tear this author to shreds. And yes, I understand that when you put your work out there in the work that it is open to criticism. But for someone to just tear your work to pieces isn’t right.

There is a way to go about. Criticism is good. Saying what you didn’t like what you read is perfectly fine. Saying that you didn’t like certain characters is fine as well, but saying that this author is horrible and that they should not be writing isn’t.

When you review books, there is some sort of professionalism about you. You may not be getting paid to review books, but there is some protocol to follow, it may be invisible but it is there.

I don’t know how people go be so hateful in their reviews, I am not even the author and I cringe at what I read sometimes. It’s horrible. How can people sit behind a computer screen and just let their fingers type such hate.

There is a difference between negative and hate reviews. Negative reviews say what THEY didn’t like about the book, and what THEY think could have worked better. While hate reviews, just pull the book and even the author to shreds.

I don’t like all the books I read, and there are certain aspects of books that I don’t like. But I say that I didn’t like it and what I think can be fixed I don’t say that because of this the book was horrible and never should have been published.

I don’t see much of this on blogs, but I defiantly see it in places like Goodreads and twitter. It’s fine to say that you didn’t like the book, I have no problem with that at all. But it’s when a review is hate driven and not constructive criticism.

Another factor is when a reader doesn’t like a particular author and they just read a book just so they can write a hateful review and you can tell when it’s those types of people. They don’t give the book a light of day, they simply don’t bother.

There are some authors that I personally don’t like, after I see them on twitter or interviews, but that doesn’t mean I will hate their books. It is simply wrong. Like I have said, I am not one to give a negative review and a hateful one at that.

I don’t know how people have the heart to hate on a book that an author has spent quite a bit of time on.

Nevertheless to the people that are giving hate reviews, please stop for a minute and think about what you are writing. You may not like the book and that is totally fine, write about what you didn’t like and what you think would be better don’t just write a review full of hate.