In Praise of the Personal Review

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Over the past few weeks, we've seen a lot of bluster in the YA community over what reviews "should be" and how they should be written and defined and what they should and should not contain. It's a conversation that was very common in the online Romance community not so many years ago, and the topic still breaks the not-so-still waters periodically.

I won't rehash the arguments made over the past few weeks, but I will provide a link round-up for anyone trying to catch up on the crazy:

A nice...