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Linger 2: Trail of the Beast (A Linger Thriller)
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From Edward Fallon
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Last Updated: Jun 14, 2017
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Warn Overall Grade
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Reviewer Ease
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 the second in a series of chasing ... [Go to full review]
Feb 14, 2016
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
Linger 2: Trail of the Beast begins with Kate Messenger ... [Go to full review]
Jul 1, 2015
15%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 13 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 13 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
Warn Rating Trend
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- 23%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 39 reviews for this product over the span of 342 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 9 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
20 of the 39 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.
7 of the 39 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 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 4.3. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
9 of the 39 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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- 90%
- 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 35 reviewers (or 90%) 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
We didn't detect a substantial amount of One Hit Wonders.
Never-Verified Reviewers
5 of the 39 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
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Single-Day Reviewers.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
10% also reviewed:
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8% also reviewed:
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5% also reviewed:
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5% also reviewed:
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5% also reviewed:
Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey Archer
5% also reviewed:
Blood Orchids (Lei Crime, Book 1) by Toby Neal
5% also reviewed:
ANCO 30 Winter Wiper Blade by Anco
5% also reviewed:
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from the same brand
11 of the 39 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
4 of the 39 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.