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Heartbreak Bay (Stillhouse Lake Book 5)
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Amazon Reviews for  Heartbreak Bay (Stillhouse Lake Book 5)
Rating:
443 Ratings
123 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
24% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Mar 20, 2021
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 443 Ratings, we counted 123 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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

Most Trusted Reviews

This book embodies the titles name. It's achingly heartbreaking. Detailed ... [Go to full review]
Mar 11, 2021      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
  • Brand Repeater (3 of 168 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.3)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 3 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)


Least Trusted Reviews

Heartbreak Bay is the fifth book in Rachel Caine’s Stillhouse ... [Go to full review]
Mar 9, 2021      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (177 words)
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)


Analysis Details

Warn Rating Trend

  • 28%
  • Created over 1 day

We counted 123 reviews for this product over the span of 8 days, an average of 15.4 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 30 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 35 reviews were created on just 1 day. 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


4.7
4.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

95 of the 123 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


4.7
4.7


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.


11 of the 123 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.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.4
4.7


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


41 of the 123 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


4.6
4.7


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers 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 Titles:
2 reviews
(4.5/5)
4 reviews
(4.3/5)
2 reviews
(3.0/5)
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82 of the 123 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


4.6
4.8


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 26%
  • 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 32 reviews (or 26%) 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.6
4.7


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

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

17% also reviewed:
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

Does not include products
from the same brand


56 of the 123 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


4.6
4.7


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 0%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation 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 4.4, 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.

4.4 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.4
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.

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:
  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.