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Life Debt: Aftermath (Star Wars) (Star Wars: The Aftermath Trilogy Book 2)
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Amazon Reviews for  Life Debt: Aftermath (Star Wars) (Star Wars: The Aftermath Trilogy Book 2)
Rating:
557 Ratings
560 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
48% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Mar 24, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 557 Ratings, we counted 560 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

I had a hard time getting through the first book ... [Go to full review]
Sep 10, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)


Least Trusted Reviews

I didn’t love Aftermath quiiiiiite as much as my friends ... [Go to full review]
Jul 12, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Brand Repeater (3 of 10 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.7)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 10 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Analysis Details

Fail Unverified Purchases

168 of the 560 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 3.9. 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 unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


3.0
3.9


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 Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


221 of the 560 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


3.5
3.7


Brand Loyalists


29 of the 560 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Loyalists which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from Brand Loyalists

from Non-Loyalists


3.0
3.7


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Never-Verified Reviewers


37 of the 560 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 2.8 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review 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.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


2.8
3.7


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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

17% also reviewed:
Bloodline (Star Wars) by Claudia Gray

Does not include products
from the same brand


203 of the 560 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.9 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 3.5. 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 reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


3.9
3.5


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 2 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3. 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.

3.0 average rating of deleted reviews

3.0


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Rating Trend

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


3.6
3.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn 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:
8 reviews
(4.5/5)
10 reviews
(4.1/5)
47 reviews
(3.5/5)
54 reviews
(2.4/5)
42 reviews
(3.9/5)
7 reviews
(4.0/5)
25 reviews
(2.9/5)
18 reviews
(3.8/5)
13 reviews
(2.9/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
6 reviews
(3.3/5)
6 reviews
(4.2/5)
5 reviews
(2.2/5)
6 reviews
(3.7/5)
24 reviews
(3.5/5)
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167 of the 560 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


3.7
3.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 39%
  • 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 216 reviewers (or 39%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviewers in an overrepresented participation groups and all other reviewers isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


3.7
3.6


Read more about our Reviewer Participation 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 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, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 3.9. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.

4.0 Product's Average Ease Score

3.9 Category's Average Ease Score


4.0
3.9


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.

  • 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.