I kinda get now why there has been some criticism of Midwest Book Reviews. If you look at the reviews, they're almost all positive, and some of them are so short that the "reviewer" might have just read the press release.
They've now reviewed my book twice. The first review was so flawed (reviewer had not even read the press release correctly) that I complained and requested a new one. Many months later, here it is:
In "Secrets of a Summer Village", 17 year old Rachel Guo finds herself spending part of a once-in-a-lifetime summer with a Turkish family in a village situated on the western coast of Turkey. This will also be the village where she will begin by not knowing her own mind, and conclude with an unexpected romance and her own coming of age as a young woman. Author Saska Akyil has a natural talent for bringing her characters to life and providing the reader with a true 'mind's eye' experience in a pleasant read which will prove a perfect summer pastime! "Secrets of a Summer Village" is highly recommended for personal reading lists and community library contemporary fiction and young adult fiction collections.
Was it worth all that hassle? Not really. I mean, it appears that the reviewer did read at least part of the book this time, and the review is positive and says I have a natural talent... which of course I agree with (hahaha), but I think... I hope they wouldn't have said this without actually reading it. If you read through their reviews, I think I notice a trend that they don't comment on the writing style at all sometimes - and those might be reviews that were written without any book-reading going on.
I'm going to have those last two sentences put onto Amazon, though. Maybe someone will read it and like it. Hmmm.
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