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The Last Sister (Columbia River Book 1)
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Amazon Reviews for  The Last Sister (Columbia River Book 1)
Rating:
1,402 Ratings
833 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
62% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Aug 23, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,402 Ratings, we counted 833 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

The language. [Go to full review]
Jun 6, 2020      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.0)


Least Trusted Reviews

I really enjoyed the books. The characters were well drawn ... [Go to full review]
Jan 25, 2020      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (25 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. 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.

4.4 Product's Average Ease Score

4.2 Category's Average Ease Score


4.4
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Fail 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:
17 reviews
(4.7/5)
16 reviews
(4.3/5)
31 reviews
(4.5/5)
43 reviews
(4.7/5)
39 reviews
(4.8/5)
13 reviews
(4.5/5)
8 reviews
(4.6/5)
16 reviews
(4.4/5)
15 reviews
(4.7/5)
9 reviews
(4.8/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
9 reviews
(4.9/5)


105 of the 833 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 4.4. 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.7
4.4


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 6 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.7. 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.

4.7 average rating of deleted reviews

4.7


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Rating Trend

  • 16%
  • Created over 7 days

We counted 833 reviews for this product over the span of 218 days, an average of 3.8 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 12 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 7 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 132 reviews were created on just 7 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.5
4.4


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

641 of the 833 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.4
4.5


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 Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


260 of the 833 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, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.4
4.4


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn Word Count Comparison

  • 51%
  • 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 427 reviews (or 51%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.5
4.4


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 48%
  • 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 400 reviewers (or 48%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.4
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


276 of the 833 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.5
4.4


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


155 of the 833 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.6
4.4


Read more about our Brand Repeats 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.


10 of the 833 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.2
4.4


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.