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Last Updated: Sep 12, 2017
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Omens book one. Visions book two. Deceptions is book three. ... [Go to full review]
May 6, 2016
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
- Brand Repeater (4 of 247 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.6)
Least Trusted Reviews
good continuation of the story. Learn more about how Olivia ... [Go to full review]
Aug 25, 2015
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 28 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Never-Verified Reviewers
7 of the 159 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.7 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 4.7. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Take-Back Reviewers
11 of the 159 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Fail Reviewer Ease
The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Fail Word Count Comparison
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- 21%
- Have an overrepresented word count
In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 34 reviews (or 21%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.8, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.6. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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60 of the 159 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.5. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 23%
- Created over 8 days
We counted 159 reviews for this product over the span of 739 days, an average of 0.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 8 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 36 reviews were created on just 8 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 61%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 2 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 97 reviewers (or 61%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
46 of the 159 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
12% also reviewed:
Magic Shifts: A Kate Daniels Novel by Ilona Andrews
11% also reviewed:
Fire Touched (A Mercy Thompson Novel) by Patricia Briggs
10% also reviewed:
Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels) by Andrews, Ilona
9% also reviewed:
Dead Heat: An Alpha and Omega Novel by Briggs, Patricia
9% also reviewed:
Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel by Ilona Andrews
8% also reviewed:
Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson Book 2) by Darynda Jones
8% also reviewed:
Sweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles Book 2) by Ilona Andrews
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from the same brand
from the same brand
48 of the 159 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
7 of the 159 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
3 of the 159 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Pass Deleted Reviews
- 0
- Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
- We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.