If a book is good or bad, we’ll tell you, regardless of whether we paid money for it or received a review copy. And remember, it’s *one* person’s opinion. And this person admitted having liked previous books in the series, so it’s not like he has a personal vendetta against the author; his viewpoint is not borne out of maliciousness.

This is not the first negative review we’ve run, nor will it be the last. If we only ran positive reviews, we’d be doing a disservice. Even bad press is good press, because people like you can read a review like this one and say, “It still appeals to me; I’m going to read it anyway.” However, we only read things we’re interested in and match up books to our reviewers’ interests in the spirit of fairness, so chances are we’ll like it more often than not.

And you can’t have a name like BOOKGASM and not be at least a little irreverent. All that said, we welcome dissenting opinions, but malicious we are not.

Your review does, however, certainly reveal some unpleasant things about you.

Have you ever written a book? Or gotten it published? I think not. What a wretchedly jealous little man you are, to be sure - you managed to get in your whacks at a successful writer, the publishing industry, the movies, the people who spend money to read something you didn’t write, and all the folks who are still hoping to sell their stories: all of them, I suspect, doing things of which you are incapable. How fortunate for you that you have the bully pulpit of a self-published critical site from which to aim your malicious fireballs. How unfortunate for the rest of us that we run across it now and then.

But that is always the risk when one reads critics’ work. Caveat emptor, indeed.