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Assassin's Touch (Iron Portal Paranormal Romance Series)
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From Laurie London
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Last Updated: Jul 10, 2017
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Incentivized Reviews
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
Most Trusted Reviews
War between different worlds brings two souls together but fate ... [Go to full review]
Aug 13, 2015
100%
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TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.5)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
I received an e-copy of this book from the publishers ... [Go to full review]
Oct 9, 2013
0%
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TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 102 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.8)
Analysis Details
Fail Unverified Purchases
44 of the 142 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.2. 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.
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.
Fail Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
28 of the 142 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. Incentivized reviews have rated this product an average of 4.6 while reviews that were not incentivized rated this product an average of 4.2. 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
29 of the 142 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 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 4.3. 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.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
57 of the 142 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 2 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.5. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.
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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 13%
- Created over 4 days
We counted 142 reviews for this product over the span of 1,583 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 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 18 reviews were created on just 4 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 42%
- 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 59 reviewers (or 42%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Pass 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.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
13% also reviewed:
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12% also reviewed:
Lay Me Down: Reveler Series 2 by Erin Kellison
11% also reviewed:
The Vampire's Mail Order Bride (Nocturne Falls)... by Kristen Painter
9% also reviewed:
Claimed: (Alien Sci-fi Romance) (Brides of the... by Evangeline Anderson
9% also reviewed:
Darksider: Reveler Series 3 by Erin Kellison
8% also reviewed:
Beautiful Demons Box Set, Books 1-3: Beautiful... by Sarra Cannon
8% also reviewed:
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from the same brand
56 of the 142 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
2 of the 142 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.