Do you post spoilery reviews??
I'm interested in what people think about this question. Personally I try not to write reviews that are spoilery. It's not that I think people who do are awful horrible reviewers who should be poked with sharp sticks I just never have done myself.
When Mockingjay came out there was a lot of fuss made because a lot of people were posting their reviews of it very quickly and spoiling the ending for fan who had been waiting patiently and eagerly for it for months which I can totally understand and had I read one before I read the book I would have been mightly annoyed!
I never really questioned this until recently. I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Last Sacrifice early and had to sign all kinds of embargo forms to get it. When I wrote my review I tried to keep it spoiler free so mot to spoil it for others. I was looking at my stats on blogger and about the time I posted the review I got loads of hits through google for the phrase "Last Sacrifice reviews with spoilers" meaning there must be people out there that want to read spoilery reviews.
So my question to you is
Would you prefer reviews that are spoiler free or spoiler full??
I'm interested in what people think about this question. Personally I try not to write reviews that are spoilery. It's not that I think people who do are awful horrible reviewers who should be poked with sharp sticks I just never have done myself.
When Mockingjay came out there was a lot of fuss made because a lot of people were posting their reviews of it very quickly and spoiling the ending for fan who had been waiting patiently and eagerly for it for months which I can totally understand and had I read one before I read the book I would have been mightly annoyed!
I never really questioned this until recently. I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Last Sacrifice early and had to sign all kinds of embargo forms to get it. When I wrote my review I tried to keep it spoiler free so mot to spoil it for others. I was looking at my stats on blogger and about the time I posted the review I got loads of hits through google for the phrase "Last Sacrifice reviews with spoilers" meaning there must be people out there that want to read spoilery reviews.
So my question to you is
Would you prefer reviews that are spoiler free or spoiler full??
Comments
Maybe you could do a spoiler part and just warn people .. l do that if l want to include a spoiler but work VERY hard to not include spoilers and ask to be told if l do.
l come across some blogs with large followers who post reviews and a lot are spoilers and your not warned.
Things which don't seem like a spoiler to someone who has read the book is for someone who hasn't
E.g if the guys name isn't mentioned in the blur saying "l love her and him together" is ruining who gets together!!!
I prefer to read spoiler-free reviews, so I also write spoiler-free reviews! For me, one of the most enjoyable parts of reading is finding out what's going to happen the characters we grow to love. But I don't want to find that out before I even open the book!
I do like when people give vague references, like saying there's a twist at the end, they didn't like the end, or it ends on a cliff-hanger until the next book. Those kinds of things I like to be prepared for. But anything specific is too much for me!
Quitting My Day Job
I wouldn't want anything spoiling for me which is why I try not to and if I think I've possibly go too far or my review may spoil the previous books in the same series I will warn readers at the beginning of the post! :) x
I can only think of one instance where I had spoilers for the book I was reviewing. It was a book I had major issues with because of some of the things that happened so when I got to that part of my review I put up major spoiler alert warnings so people could choose not to read further. I put another large note at the end of the spoiler so people could just scan past and easily spot where it was safe to start reading again.
I can't understand why anyone would want spoilers for a book they've not read yet but I do like to discuss books I've read with others who have also read them. I don't tend to do that on my blog though as I'm wary of spoiling for others.
Then again I was shocked to discover that some people read the last page / last chapter of a book before they read the beginning - that would ruin the whole book for me LOL. I guess that those people wouldn't mind a spoiler full review!
Hooked to Books
With series it's difficult, cause everything you mention about the storyline is spoilerish for the first book in the series, but I always mention this right on top of the review, so people are warned.
I avoided Mockingjay reviews (and the Goodreads page) like the plague when I hadn't read it yet, because some people thought it would be nice to announce the whole storyline and who dies or doesn't. After a year of waiting for it, I would have been SOOO angry if I'd read that!
I don't mind bloggers putting spoilers in their reviews as long as they tell me BEFORE I get to it so I can chose whether to read it or not.
I hate it when I read a review and there's a spoiler right in my face without any warning. That makes me mad. I hate knowing all the major twists and turns before reading the book myself.
It's an interesting question though - I don't have enough will power not to read a review when it has spoiler warnings, but I don't purposely go out looking forward spoilers!
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