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Queen of Fire (A Raven's Shadow Novel)
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This report was last updated 10/24/2018.
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL
Unverified Purchases

FAIL
Suspicious Reviewers

FAIL
Overlapping Review History

WARN
Deleted Reviews

WARN
Rating Trend

WARN
Brand Repeats

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Phrase Repetition

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
Great story, great character developement, spends enough time with each ... [Go to full review]
Oct 22, 2018
100%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Brand Repeater (2 of 92 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.5)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
This is just not a good book. It's slow, boring, ... [Go to full review]
Jul 7, 2015
0%
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TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 4 Reviews)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.0)
Analysis Details
Fail
Unverified Purchases

109 of the 621 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.0 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.7. 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.
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
Suspicious Reviewers

Never-Verified Reviewers
21 of the 621 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 2.5 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 3.6. 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
36 of the 621 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Fail
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
21% also reviewed:
Tower Lord (A Raven's Shadow Novel) by Ryan, Anthony
8% also reviewed:
Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight... by Brandon Sanderson
6% also reviewed:
Dawn of Wonder: The Wakening, Book 1 by Jonathan Renshaw
6% also reviewed:
The Way of Kings Part One: The Stormlight Archive... by
4% also reviewed:
The Skull Throne: Book Four of The Demon Cycle by Del Rey
4% also reviewed:
Half a King (Shattered Sea) by Del Rey
4% also reviewed:
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller... by Patrick Rothfuss
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239 of the 621 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.8 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 3.4. 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 9 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4. 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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Rating Trend

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- 32%
- Created over 28 days
We counted 621 reviews for this product over the span of 1,205 days, an average of 0.5 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 4 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 28 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 199 reviews were created on just 28 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
199 of the 621 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Brand Loyalists
13 of the 621 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 71%
- 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 438 reviewers (or 71%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Word Count Comparison

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- 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
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:
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8 reviews
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11 reviews
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43 reviews
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27 reviews
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9 reviews
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9 reviews
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18 reviews
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15 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
5 reviews
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13 reviews
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5 reviews
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45 of the 621 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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 3.9, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
3.9 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease 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.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive 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.