Harsh

Anybody reading my reviews (and apparently some people do); could be left with the superficial impression that I'm easily pleased. The opposite is actually true. Depressingly, most of the books I start to read, I don't finish. This is particularly true of fiction. Life is too short to persist with stories that are tedious or unconvincing or just seriously technically flawed. I probably only finish 40 per cent of the novels I try to read.
But I won't review a book unless I've read it all the way through. If I haven't, I don't feel I'm qualified to do so. That's why my reviews are overwhelmingly positive.