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The Devil's Gate (The Devil's Gate Trilogy Book 1)
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Last Updated: Nov 21, 2017
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL
Rating Trend

FAIL
Reviewer Ease

FAIL
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Unverified Purchases

WARN
Incentivized Reviews

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
Pass this one by folks.... Trying to copycat FSOG, but ... [Go to full review]
Oct 15, 2015
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 6 of 9 top products
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Least Trusted Reviews
The Devil's Gate is truly an amazing, all consuming read. ... [Go to full review]
Apr 12, 2015
0%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified 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 (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.5)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
Fail
Rating Trend

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- 29%
- Created over 5 days
We counted 101 reviews for this product over the span of 888 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 5 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 29 reviews were created on just 5 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 5.0 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 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.
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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Fail
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
58 of the 101 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 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.
Warn
Unverified Purchases

68 of the 101 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.
8 of the 101 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. While we could not find a statistically significant difference between the average rating of incentivized reviews and non-incentivized reviews, 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
Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
6 of the 101 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.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 53%
- 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 54 reviewers (or 53%) 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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- 28%
- Have an overrepresented word count
In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 28 reviews (or 28%) are within an overrepresented word count group. 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:
9% also reviewed:
The Vampire's Mail Order Bride (Nocturne Falls)... by Kristen Painter
8% also reviewed:
Three, Two, One (321): (A Dark Suspense) by JA Huss
7% also reviewed:
Monster in His Eyes by J.M. Darhower
7% also reviewed:
Debt Inheritance (Indebted Book 1) by Pepper Winters
7% also reviewed:
Stepbrother Dearest by Penelope Ward
6% also reviewed:
The Treemakers (The Treemakers Trilogy Book 1) by Christina L. Rozelle
6% also reviewed:
Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair Book 1) by J.L. Beck
6% also reviewed:
IMPULSE (Infinitus Billionaire Book 1) by E. B. Walters
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from the same brand
from the same brand
30 of the 101 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
3 of the 101 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

- 0
- 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.