Goodreads Reviews 188

I thought the book jumped about too much, various timescales with no hint of when they were. Lots of content with unnecessary explicit sex details. Overall a good read .

Weird, I just stumbled upon Goodreads Trustpilot page and it got only 2,1 stars. If you are just a regular book reader like me and my friends that's just plain wrong. Goodreads is a very trustworthy site for book reviews. I give them 5 stars, no doubt or hesitation.

This is the worst experience for any author! Scam reviews and show casing delisted books! It doesn't matter if you tell support books are delisted and reviews fake, they don't remove the books and as author you can't remove yourself from Goodreads! Should be illegal!

Yuri Sar who blogs or works for this company thinks it's ok to harass people online for being LGBTQ allies and defending transgender people's right to exist. She also thinks being self employed or being on universal credit is something to bully others for. Certainly not what I expected from an employee of a company!

Absolute joke of a "reviews" website:
It's allowed publications that haven't even been published yet to get panned. It has no credibility as long as it lets this heinous astroturfing persist.
Check out The Bookseller's website for an article entitled "Authors hit by bad reviews before review copies are even circulated".

Been using it for a loong time. I like to keep track of my books, and it helps that's connected with my kindle account.

This is possibly the worst site out there. The customer service is sub-par as they are not bale to solve a simple access issue.

My number one book social network. There are sometimes some technical bugs, but their book collection is great, so far could find all the books needed

If you only want to keep track of the books read and share progress with a fellow reading "community" then goodreads can work for you.

But if you are getting a bit more involved in creating lists, making comments, honestly reviewing your books or even publish your own books there, I think you will be greeted by the toxicity this "community" nurtures.

- There are dozens of trolls waiting to just negatively comment and spam (not creatively) on anything that gets created inside (even as a simple list where you freely add your books) and guess what - the DEVS will listen to them :)
- there is little to no honest moderation
- there is almost zero constructive feedback
- there is no possibility to verify if the books are actually getting read *unlike kpd

Never used the site, but I have a perfect right to predict if I'd enjoy it or not.

Pros:
* A lot of books

Cons:
* A lot of translations not combined with the original work
* Terrible costumer service (they don't read your message, even though the site is called GoodReads)
* LGHDTV+ propaganda everywhere (is there any escape from it on the internet nowadays? Sigh)

This site is infested with trolls who use it to vent their spite and abuse while pretending to ‘review’ books.

Useless contacting the ‘monitors’ who simply ignore you.

It’s high time legislation was brought in to ban sites like Goodreads that publish hateful material.

Don't be cheated by Goodreads. Their Giveaway program does not guarantee any reviews at all. They gladly take $99, then claim they never promised any book reviews.

The app is sooooooo OLD and not user friendly it needs a serious revamp

Recommendations are almost useless. Can't find anything that truly matches my taste for books.

I spent 10K on an editor who went line by line from Palmetto Publishers and when I put my book on Goodreads the woke attacked it by saying you can't read it because of all the misspellings. I wrote a historical romance using the language and events of that time period and was called a racist.

I reported an author who wrote his own review... That is hardly acceptable practice and Goodreads keep saying they will sort this out but of course they don't..No transparency or staff who seem to do anything. Useless

After new year update - the friends challenge tracking dissapear. I wrote 5 times to support and only generic AI respond come as answer. BACK FRIENDS CHALLENGE tracking AGAIN. Until then - 1*

Thank you for listening to your customers.

Support staff are useless, they don’t read emails and just send generic replies. I would not recommend using this app. I’ve logged 150 books read in the last 2 years and now I cannot get into my account because the staff aren’t willing to help. They’ve sent endless repetitive generic trouble shooting emails without actually listening to my issue. Giving up and finding a better app.

It seems I’m not the only one who feels like they are hitting a brick wall with the support team. I work in tech so have had a fair amount of dealing with IT support teams and never have I been so ignored and frustrated. I can’t access my account and honestly I’m not sure it’s worth having to deal with the support team. They clearly don’t read messages and just copy and paste from a script.