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Note: While Amazon.com claims 3,947 Ratings, we counted 280 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I was hooked on this author since I read The ... [Go to full review]
Jun 16, 2020
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Brand Repeater (3 of 53 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 3.3)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 3 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
This was a real page turner. I was so worried ... [Go to full review]
Jun 15, 2020
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 54 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)
Analysis Details
Fail Unverified Purchases
175 of the 280 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.2 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.0. 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.
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 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:
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3 reviews
(4.3/5)
(4.3/5)
2 reviews
(4.0/5)
(4.0/5)
19 reviews
(3.9/5)
(3.9/5)
2 reviews
(4.0/5)
(4.0/5)
19 reviews
(4.2/5)
(4.2/5)
2 reviews
(4.0/5)
(4.0/5)
2 reviews
(4.0/5)
(4.0/5)
10 reviews
(3.8/5)
(3.8/5)
11 reviews
(3.7/5)
(3.7/5)
2 reviews
(4.0/5)
(4.0/5)
128 of the 280 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.3 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 Rating Trend
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- 27%
- Created over 6 days
We counted 280 reviews for this product over the span of 185 days, an average of 1.5 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 7 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 6 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 76 reviews were created on just 6 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
103 of the 280 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.
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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 31%
- 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 86 reviewers (or 31%) 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.
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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
12% also reviewed:
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12% also reviewed:
What Lies Between Us by John Marrs
10% also reviewed:
Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
9% also reviewed:
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family... by Gregg Olsen
8% also reviewed:
The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica
8% also reviewed:
Bring Me Back: A Novel by Paris, B. A.
8% also reviewed:
The Mother-in-Law: A Novel by Sally Hepworth
8% also reviewed:
The Escape Room: A Novel by Megan Goldin
8% also reviewed:
Lying Next to Me by Olsen, Gregg
102 of the 280 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
23 of the 280 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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
13 of the 280 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
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.