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KNIVES (The Baron Blasko Mysteries)
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From A. E. Howe
This report was last updated 9/15/2019.
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Fail Overall Grade
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Rating Trend

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Unverified Purchases

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Incentivized Reviews

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Suspicious Reviewers

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Phrase Repetition

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Reviewer Participation

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Word Count Comparison

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Overlapping Review History

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Reviewer Ease

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Brand Repeats

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Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
And I loved Fangs. This story was gripping and hard ... [Go to full review]
Sep 22, 2018
100%
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
After reading "Fangs" (the first book in this series), I ... [Go to full review]
Jul 30, 2018
12%
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Unverified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Admitted to receiving an incentive
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 12 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
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Rating Trend

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- 34%
- Created over 2 days
We counted 29 reviews for this product over the span of 281 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 10 reviews were created on just 2 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
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Unverified Purchases

22 of the 29 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the unverified purchases and verified purchases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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.
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Incentivized Reviews

On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
7 of the 29 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. While we could not find a statistically significant difference between the average rating of incentivized reviews and non-incentivized reviews, the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a review.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
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Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
9 of the 29 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.
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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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8 of the 29 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the these reviews and reviews without substantial repetitive phrases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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Reviewer Participation

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- 41%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 12 reviewers (or 41%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviewers in an overrepresented participation groups and all other reviewers isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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Word Count Comparison

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- 0%
- Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
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Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
10% also reviewed:
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7% also reviewed:
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia... by Alan Bradley
7% also reviewed:
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
7% also reviewed:
Big Lake by Nick Russell
7% also reviewed:
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan
7% also reviewed:
Alone (A Bone Secrets Novel Book 4) by Kendra Elliot
7% also reviewed:
The Forgotten Girls (Book #1 in The Suburban... by Alexa Steele
7% also reviewed:
Blood Defense (Samantha Brinkman Book 1) by Marcia Clark
8 of the 29 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.
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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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.
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Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
2 of the 29 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.
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Deleted Reviews

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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.