Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-32987979-20190603052114

Yeah, I think reviews should be more professional. They made some valid points, but it just seemed really informal, the way they put it together. I just think that you should take casual reviews like that less seriously than reviews written by professional critics, because they were definitely more influenced by their opinions as opposed to looking at the flaws more objectively. To me, the biggest problems with the review were

1. They clearly didn't read the books very well, as shown when they said "mermerizing" or something instead of "mesmerizing," Which to me really takes away from their credibility, either not paying enough attention or misspelling the word (which shows an obvious lack of editing)

2. They seemed to have made up their minds early on that they wouldn't like it, instead of keeping an open mind. Once they decided it was just a "discount Harry Potter," it was all over. Just like people who decide something about a movie based on the trailer and thus don't enjoy the movie because they've already made up their mind

3. It just was so informal. I get it, that's the style or whatever, but I just hate reviews like that. I can't really describe it, but you know what I mean. It doesn't seem like an actual critic wrote it, rather some random guy on the internet. I mean, I'm also a random person on the internet, but I feel like I could write a more objective review than that.

Flashback is honestly probably my least favorite book. I felt incredibly unsatisfied and underwhelmed considering how hyped up it was. It's not even that the characters lost (again) to the Neverseen- after all, Infinity War was able to pull off an ending where the antagonist wins really well. But it was how Sophie spent half the book recovering, which already had me irritated, and then them losing so disastrously because they didn't even get close. In Infinity War, you knew the characters did everything possible to stop Thanos, actually almost did succeed TWICE, and it had you on the edge of your seat because you really did expect the Avengers to win. With this, it was just... oh, surprise surprise, they lost. Again. And they've taken Tam. Great job, team. Then the random "unmatchable" twist for... some reason. Because all the fans REALLY care about is who Sophie will end up with, of course! Again, sorry for the rant, but I just really did not enjoy Flashback at all.