EveryDay Life Reviews-Are They to be Trusted?

 

 

 

Most book readers don’t put too much worth in book reviews these days. There are so many reviews and they quite often are all over the place. Much of the distrust of a book review has to deal with the fact that many review sites are biased, or worse, paid to review a book. Let’s see we have African-American sites that don’t review African-American books, Hip Hop sites that don’t review hip hop books, and political sites that are full of gossip. As far as authors go I guess we aren’t paying enough.

We have all had it happen to us: We buy a book with glowing reviews or one that is on the New York Times Best Seller list. After we are done reading it, we wonder, “How did this even get published?” or “Is it too late to get my money back?”

If an author pays for a review and they still receive three stars that should tell you more than reading the review ever could. The bottom line is that, in the big scheme of things, book reviews quite often don’t mean much when it just a book. It’s not going to change your life, and you are just going to read and pass. Right?

This brings us to the EveryDay Life Reviews: Reviews which you can’t buy. 

Are we, the reader, expected to believe Taj Longino of HYPE Magazine Radio when he stated “This may be the funniest book ever written” Alright it may be funny, but one can hardly think that Ghostwriter Literary Review could see the complete opposite when they stated “It only enhances the seriousness of their discussions“. How is it even possible to give reviews credibility when they state things like EveryDay Life is, “delving into uncharted territories” or as another reviewer remarked that it “sets a new literary standard“?

That’s Hog-wash!

EveryDay Life is merely a book. What can be gained by writing, as Conversations Book Club did, that “the book is a mixture of THE WOOD, THE BEST MAN mixed in with the drama of your favorite Tyler Perry play“? Those grandiose proclamations are the primary indication that something has to be amiss here.

The newspaper, The Clarion Ledger’s attempted to get the heart of the matter when they printed this about EveryDay Life “life of ordinary men who are faced with extraordinary challenges who have to look outside of themselves to find a way to deal with those challenges“. It is likely that African American’s on the Move would not be easily fooled when they said that “Each page is filled with truth, passion, and reality“. Each page? Come on, do you think we would believe that?

Many book reviewers don’t hold the opinion of the general public so perhaps the University can shed some light on the subject, after careful consideration Professor Utley said “I loved how you mixed humor with very savvy socio-political messages“. I think we can all see what is going on here and that EveryDay Life is no different than any other piece of literature; when Danelle Drake said “The characters taught me more than I could ever imagine“.

Surely this type of crying wolf must stop. Words such as, Profound, enlightening, entertaining, compelling have too often been used to describe EveryDay Life for anyone to actually believe them. Perhaps EveryDay Life’s true substance will reveal itself in this recent review from Reader Views “You see to the souls of these individuals; while making you laugh, they make you cry“.

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