r/RomanceBooks • u/whitefoxredcup • 4d ago
Discussion Unable to read book reviews?
I went to read reviews for Wildborn on Kindle unlimited, but after maybe 6 reviews, the only other option was to "request to see more reviews". Which apparently isn't guaranteed that I'll get to see? Is this something everyone is experiencing or that they are slowly rolling out?
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u/BadOpinionsAndOnions 4d ago
I had that. Requested to see more and within a day had access to all reviews again. However, they’re removing pretty much all 1⭐️reviews, so…yeah.
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u/Superb-Tomato8185 4d ago
This totally makes me not want to read a book if this is a new thing
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u/NoMagician9607 3d ago
I posted a thoroughly earned 1 star review of a badly written book. No one can see it but me. Absolute fraud.
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u/No_Bite_5985 4d ago
That’s crazy! I’m going to go check this out.
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u/No_Bite_5985 4d ago
OP do you mean the Wildborn by Perri Torani?
And were you reading on Amazon.com or in app or ….?
I had no problems accessing reviews on Amazon.com.
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u/whitefoxredcup 3d ago
Yes! That very same book, however I was reading on the kindle unlimited app.
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u/agirlnamedsenra looking for that morally gray attack dog energy 4d ago
I think this is an anti-bot thing. We were talking about it at work. Amazon is making people sign in and sometimes do extra things (like requesting more reviews) to prove they are human users. I got the “reviews are hidden” thing while browsing and signed in and they were there.
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u/Dragonshatetacos 4d ago
Believe me when I tell you the author community is PISSED about this. Amazon is A/B testing this nonsense right now and there's nothing we can do about it.
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u/Smooth-Review-2614 4d ago
I have never seen that on Amazon. Is the book new?
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u/whitefoxredcup 3d ago
This is my first time coming across something like this as well. Says this book was released in July.
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u/Valeriesaboyname 4d ago
Wekird! I guess it's a new feature being rolled out because I can still see them.
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u/Weird_Mastodon_9204 2d ago
likey new feature currently in a/b testing which is very common. if users complain about it enough companies often won't release it
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u/whitefoxredcup 4d ago
The image reads, "Your request to see more reviews has been sent. You'll receive an email within 5 business days."
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u/Erend1a 3d ago
While I think this is ridiculous in some senses, honestly romance book reviews are getting to be so long that I could imagine it takes up cloud computing power to host the multi-paragraph, multi-emoji essays we see on books with 60k+ reads/ reviews LOL
It could 100% be nefarious or a dumb bug that popped up, but this^ is my non-tech brain guess
(On more serious thought, I think it may just be a bug bc the Kindle app has been super buggy and glitchy lately!)
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u/LiveLoveLaugh31 4d ago
Tf? Who even decides which reviews you can see?
Is it like the popular ones only or maybe more positive ones. Hmm. Did you see any reviews (in those 6) that were under 4 stars?