What then shall we do when book reviewers go bad?

Occasionally we authors are challenged on how to respond to reviews. Reviews I have learned are simply readers documenting how they experienced an authors writing.

Because of that I have overall taken the mindset that reviews in general are like walking into an ice cream store. I should not expect someone who wants and likes chocolate to be thrilled when they taste vanilla. There is no right and wrong in such instances but merely preferences.

Because of this and because of the general ad...