A Man Called Ove: A Novel
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From Backman, Fredrik
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Most Trusted Reviews
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.7)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
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Verified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Contains repetitive phrases (
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 16 Reviews)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
Analysis Details

241 of the 17,077 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases 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.

We discovered a total of 143 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.

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- Created over 273 days
We counted 17,077 reviews for this product over the span of 2,137 days, an average of 8.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 19 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 273 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 8,549 reviews were created on just 273 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

Take-Back Reviewers
4,607 of the 17,077 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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- 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 6596 reviewers (or 39%) 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.

2,580 of the 17,077 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.

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- Have an overrepresented word count
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4,133 of the 17,077 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.

4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.

Brand Repeaters
909 of the 17,077 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.

9 of the 17,077 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.