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A Man Called Ove: A Novel
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel View product on Amazon.com
Amazon Reviews for A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Rating:
37,855 Ratings
17,557 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
0% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
Adjusted:
17,537 Reviews



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Last Updated: Jul 10, 2021
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 37,855 Ratings, we counted 17,557 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
Five Stars
Wonderful book! I loved it even tho it made me ... [Go to full review]
Aug 29, 2014      
59% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (5 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.8)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 3 of 9 top products
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)

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Least Trusted Reviews

4/5
I would I'd really give this book 4. 5 ...
I would I'd really give this book 4.5 stars. The ... [Go to full review]
Jul 31, 2016      
18% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)

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Analysis Details

Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.

Common Phrases in Reviews:
grumpy old man

329 reviews
(4.6/5)
made me laugh

379 reviews
(4.9/5)
a grumpy old man

214 reviews
(4.6/5)


259 of the 17,557 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.8
4.6

Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 142 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:
  1. 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.
  2. We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
  3. 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.
Read more about our Deleted Reviews test.

4.5 average rating of deleted reviews

4.5

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Warn Rating Trend

  • 54%
  • Created over 327 days

We counted 17,557 reviews for this product over the span of 2,558 days, an average of 6.9 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 17 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 327 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 9,545 reviews were created on just 327 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.6
4.6

Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


5,554 of the 17,557 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.6
4.6

Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

2,708 of the 17,557 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.6
4.6

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 Word Count Comparison

  • 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.

Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:


7% also reviewed:
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah


6% also reviewed:
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr


4% also reviewed:
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline


4% also reviewed:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt


4% also reviewed:
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles


3% also reviewed:
Before We Were Yours: A Novel by Lisa Wingate


3% also reviewed:
Big Little Lies (Movie Tie-In) by Liane Moriarty


3% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan


3% also reviewed:
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

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4,230 of the 17,557 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.6
4.6

Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 0%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass 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.

4.3 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.3
4.3

Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


1,151 of the 17,557 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.8
4.6

Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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.


9 of the 17,557 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.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.2
4.6

Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.