Book Blogger Confessions is a new bi-weekly meme hosted by Tiger @ All Consuming Books and Karen @ For What it's Worth Reviews.
Spoilers in reviews: Do you read them, do you include them? How do you describe (or avoid describing) spoilery parts of a book?
Spoilers in reviews...I loathe them, I really do. Actually I hate spoilers on books in any form (you hear that Reeshe? Stop telling 90% of everything that happens in the book when you recommend them to me). She's great with keeping it quiet in a review but when she starts talking, cover your ears! Anyway I try to avoid spoilery reviews whenever I can and thankfully if a review I come across, in the blogs I follow, have spoilers the poster is kind enough to warn me before hand. Which is what we do hear if our reviews stem into discussions. And since I hate reading reviews about spoilers (read one on a book store site the other day that told me a big twist in a book I was considering, I wanted to slit the reviewer's throat) I do not post reviews with spoilers and I'll even warn you if I'm not 100% sure if what I am posting is a spoiler.
Sometimes though there are certain books where you can hardly say anything because big things are revealed early on that you wouldn't know about unless you read the book, which makes it quite hard to discuss the book so my reviews for those tend to be shorter and just comment on writing style and characters (if I can even mention characters without spoiling you.)
Wow - your hard - slit the reviewer's throat. lol I might steer clear of you in NY
ReplyDeleteI love spoilers but I never spoil.
As long as you never spoil then you are perfectly safe xD. Once I accidentally spoiled my friend two seconds after telling her I wouldn't spoil her (she was begging for the name of a major character who had died) and I was so mad at myself but she wanted to know the name anyway so she didn't care that she was spoiled.
DeleteWow.. I hope that wasn't me lol, but i don't mind spoilers sometimes but now i am trying to write all without them, but when you think back to a story, to find parts that where so stupid or really good and it is like they come flying out of you but I try to hold them back for Sandy and other people who do not like them.
ReplyDeleteI am actually think that I might start writing 2 reviews one with and one without lol... If I do don't worry I will put it in the title so you can choose which one to read.