Free book? Free book!

[sholio]

The Gatekeeper series collection is free this week on Amazon in case anyone wants to grab it there!

.... Not gonna lie, this is a shameless attempt to collect another rating or two to minimize and/or cancel out the one-star rating that is currently the only one it has. I don't normally pay that much attention to review ratings - onto each book a few one-star reviews sift down, like critical dandruff - but in this case it's literally the only one and it looks kind of bad. Therefore, free days through Sunday!

Comments

[ellenmillion]

GUH. I hate those 1-star, no-review ratings. I dislike the whole 'leave a rating' without the review thing that they started and feel like people down-star a lot more when they don't have to justify it.

[ellenmillion]

Oh, will it be free on Saturday? I'll add it to my SaturdayShoutout. My newsletter doesn't go out until the 1st or I'd add it there, too.

[sholio]

Oh, that would be wonderful, thank you so much! :) Yes, it will be free 'til the end of the day on Sunday. I really appreciate it!!

.... and yeah, when the ability to leave reviews without ratings first appeared on Amazon, I was happy about it - because as a user, I like the ability to quickly click a thing - but over time ... yeah. I do think it's caused more low ratings and also a sort of runaway popularity effect with bestsellers quickly going up by hundreds of ratings, that just makes the gap look worse between those and the ones that only have a few.

[ellenmillion]

Added to my list. And it looks like Amazon released my review!

[sholio]

AWWWWWW. Thank you so much! ♥ ♥ ♥ I swear I wasn't fishing for - well, I mean, I guess I totally was, but not from people I know. Anyway, thank you; I really appreciate it!!

[ellenmillion]

Haha, no lies were told!

[sovay]

the one-star rating that is currently the only one it has.

That sucks! May you garner many better ratings and also some actual (positive) reviews.

[sholio]

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be stopping people from downloading it, at least!

And thank you!

[yhlee]

I left a review but I think it's still in the review dungeon. THESE ARE GREAT BOOKS!!!

[sholio]

I just saw it!! Thank you so much! ♥ ♥ ♥ It's really helped with boosting it up out of its 1-star doldrums, and I really appreciate it. :)

[yhlee]

Glad to help! I love those books. :D

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Thanks! I just grabbed the collection; I don't know when I'll read it, but I'll try to remember to leave a rating and review!

I never trust one-star ratings without reviews. I'm inclined not to trust any rating without a review.

[sholio]

I hope you like it if you read it! <3

Yeah, having ratings without reviews on Amazon is a very mixed sort of experience. I do actually kinda like having the option as a reader/buyer, but ... yeah. There's no accountability at all.