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Captivate Your Readers: An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Fiction
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From Jodie Renner
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Last Updated: Sep 2, 2017
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
This book is actually very good - something of a ... [Go to full review]
Jan 17, 2016
100%
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TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 3.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
I've read other of Jodie Renner's books and found them ... [Go to full review]
Mar 20, 2015
20%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 8 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
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 4.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4. 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.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
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Warn Rating Trend
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- 30%
- Created over 4 days
We counted 61 reviews for this product over the span of 853 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. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
39 of the 61 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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.
Warn Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
5 of the 61 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is more than we would expect see; 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.
Warn 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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23 of the 61 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 67%
- 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 41 reviewers (or 67%) 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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- 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 Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
2 of the 61 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Never-Verified Reviewers
6 of the 61 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Take-Back Reviewers
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Take-Back Reviewers.
Single-Day Reviewers
6 of the 61 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
7% also reviewed:
Write Your Novel From The Middle: A New Approach... by Bell, James Scott
5% also reviewed:
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success by K. M. Weiland
5% also reviewed:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and... by J. K. Rowling
5% also reviewed:
The Last Town (The Wayward Pines Trilogy, Book 3) by Blake Crouch
5% also reviewed:
Strong Verbs Strong Voice by Ann Everett
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from the same brand
from the same brand
21 of the 61 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
1 of the 61 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.
Pass Deleted Reviews
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- Reviews have been deleted
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.