Do you rate/review books you didn't finish?

Abriani H · Post by **Abriani H** » 30 Apr 2024, 00:47

Providing a review without completing the book is an irresponsible act. I just found out that there are people who do that.

Abriani H · Post by **Abriani H** » 30 Apr 2024, 00:49

ALynnPowers wrote: ↑20 May 2015, 23:31 I always try to rate or review a book after I have finished reading it, either on Goodreads or Amazon or both.

Recently I was looking through some reviews for a book I was interested in reading and found SEVERAL 1 star reviews for the book with the comment "DNF" or "did not finsh" or something to that degree. I was SHOCKED. People really do this? Give1 stars to a book even if they didn't read the whole thing? How do you know that it's worth only 1 star if you didn't read to the end?

It's shocking to me and I can't even imagine giving a rating to a book without reading the whole thing, even if I hated it at the beginning. The ending is always what makes or breaks the book for me, anyway.

So how about how? Can you rate books even before you finish?

People who give 1-star ratings without even reading it shouldn't be allowed to make reviews. There should be a moderator's role in the review section to question their reasons and discard irrelevant ratings.

Abriani H · Post by **Abriani H** » 30 Apr 2024, 00:52

ALynnPowers wrote: ↑20 May 2015, 23:40 Well, if you have a reason to not finish it, I could understand. But these reviews just said that they didn't finish. No explanation. And I have no idea why!!!

Reading this makes me angry. I can imagine how the writer must feel, frustrated reading this review. It's incredibly disrespectful to disregard someone else's efforts.

Abriani H · Post by **Abriani H** » 30 Apr 2024, 00:53

dee74 wrote: ↑21 May 2015, 00:11 I don't rate them because I feel that it is unfair by me not finishing the book.

I agree with you. It's better not to rate a book if you haven't finished it, especially giving it a 1-star rating.

George Okello 2 · Post by **George Okello 2** » 22 Aug 2024, 08:45

No,I don't.I must finish a book first to rate and review it

London Baum · Post by **London Baum** » 21 Jan 2025, 17:31

I will rate them but not review them, if I didn’t finish a book it’s either really bad or something drastic I disagree with from a moral standpoint has happened.

Koffie Solomon · Post by **Koffie Solomon** » 11 Feb 2025, 03:19

No I don't. I am afraid that I might miss some important things and give wrong information in my review

margherita mantovani · Post by **margherita mantovani** » 19 May 2025, 09:26

No, it wouldn't be fair

Violet Devreaux · Post by **Violet Devreaux** » 11 Jun 2025, 18:27

No, I generally just delete them from my TBR list. Especially because sometimes it’s just that I wasn’t in the right mood for a specific book. For example, I abandoned Middlegame by Seanen McGuire the first try, but when I read it later I LOVED it.