Not a good fit?

Bleakmage · Post by **Bleakmage** » 28 May 2013, 04:29

Been waiting on my review for awhile, and just now I finally got an email that says my review request has been updated. Yay! Or so I thought. This is the first sentence of my status when I came here to check it out -- Current status: The first reviewer did not finish reading the book because it was not a good fit.

Just wondering what yall think that means. It could mean alot of things, but I guess my question is, not a good fit for who, or what? But like I said, it could mean alot of things. I'm not upset or anything, I promise, but I am wondering

lady_charlie · Post by **lady_charlie** » 06 Jun 2013, 22:10

Maybe the person thought they were going to read a mystery and it turned out to be too violent or graphic or the content was somehow personally objectionable? You would know if that were a possibility. But I might return a book for "not a good fit" if it was pointlessly bloody and violent and disgusting with page after page of gore and grimness.

Just saying, that is one situation I could think of IMHO.

Bleakmage · Post by **Bleakmage** » 07 Jun 2013, 11:17

Well, there is part of this one scene near the beginning where there is some necessary graphic violence that is (long character-involved explanation here), and its the only scene that I actually had to turn down a notch or two because originally, it was even too much for me. I changed it from an actual description to an inferred one that left the thinly-veiled action intact, but leaving it (somewhat) to the imagination may be worse than a more blunt, in-your-face description. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I might leave that scene to the imagination the worse it potentially could be. It could be that, but what happened is what happened. I have to leave the scene as-is in its final form to preserve my artistic integrity, but its one of those things where, if they can just get past that (and I could understand if some may not) its like I think any good book is, full of Light and Dark and everything in between.

Or it could be something else in the 'personally objectionable' category

Well, by the time this post was approved someone else has taken up the gauntlet, so if they too reject it for 'not a good fit', well, I don't know what I'll do, but withdrawing the book from review consideration may be one option.

Well anyway, thank you for your feedback lady