How do you write a good review for a bad book?

Recently, two other writers requested that I read their books and write a review. I’m always reading something so the thought process was why not diversify my collection and help another writer out at the same time.

The first book was pitched as a tale of sex and madness. Halfway through I could not not read one more single word. This tale was nothing but written pornography. There are very few books that I fail to complete reading once started but this one so repulsed me so much that I had to cease for my own health.

Book two was little better. A work where a four letter word was part of every sentence. Every woman in the story was hot and they all flirted with the man character, a bumbling fool who started everyday with two or three beers before going to work. Wait, he didn’t go to work because he doesn’t have a job. He simply goes to the racetrack and wins ten thousand dollars having never been to a racetrack before and not knowing how to bet on horses. Yup, that happens everyday to people, right?

I struggled with what to say to other readers. How do you write a good review for a bad book? In the end, I simply had to tell the writers that I did not find their work entertaining and could not assist them.

There’s another book in my Kindle from another writer that is better than the first two but there’s still three quarters of the book to go. Hopefully, I won’t be disappointed a third time.

Yes, there are a lot of books out there and some of them are bad.

Steven Tyler

www.Onelittlelie.com

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