What To Do About Inaccurate Reviews?

As an author I try to stay away from reviews and reader spaces. I rarely read my reviews. But every so often I take a look and I’m fine with criticism and I know not everyone is comfortable with me and my writing. However, as I was updating one of my stories I saw a review that has a lot of inaccuracies.

And how do I not say anything?

I don’t want to end up on Reads With Rachel Authors Behaving Badly!

Amazon no longer allows comments on reviews so there’s nothing I can do about it except ask to have it taken down and I really don’t want that. I wish there were a way for me to address a few of the things mentioned in the review.

I think I’ll leave it at this:

Just because you would not be able to do the same things Stewart can do, doesn’t mean that his disability is not accurate. Spinal cord injuries, and disabilities in general, have a wide variety of abilities. You also said in one place that he was a quadriplegic and in another that he is paraplegic. He is paraplegic.

Another review claims that this is the story of someone injured in a car accident even though the story is extremely clear that it’s a surfing accident.

What would you do? Do you have a way to deal with reviews of your work that are factually inaccurate?

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