Review blues
So, I got my first mostly-negative review, but it's one that's easy to deal with, because it's purely a reader-dealbreaker consideration.
A reviewer said that she couldn't make it through the book because she couldn't warm to D and found him totally unsympathetic and unredeemable. Frankly, when I started writing Zero I worried about that, but so far she's the first person to have this problem, or at least to have said so. That's completely fair. D is after all a hitman. I can understand some readers not being able to accept his redemption, or feeling like I hadn't done enough to convince them of its reality and make him sympathetic. Readers are going to have different thresholds of tolerance for D's former profession and I can't do anything about that. They'll either buy it or they won't.
Oh well. I was really digging my perfect 5.00 rating on GoodReads. Guess I'll have to be content with 4.75 from now on. I know, poor me. How shall I ever continue?
A reviewer said that she couldn't make it through the book because she couldn't warm to D and found him totally unsympathetic and unredeemable. Frankly, when I started writing Zero I worried about that, but so far she's the first person to have this problem, or at least to have said so. That's completely fair. D is after all a hitman. I can understand some readers not being able to accept his redemption, or feeling like I hadn't done enough to convince them of its reality and make him sympathetic. Readers are going to have different thresholds of tolerance for D's former profession and I can't do anything about that. They'll either buy it or they won't.
Oh well. I was really digging my perfect 5.00 rating on GoodReads. Guess I'll have to be content with 4.75 from now on. I know, poor me. How shall I ever continue?