Each reviewer is going to have to decide for themselves what it is worth to them to handle the ARC and the possible ethical ramifications. I cannot tell you what you should do, because it is not my place to do so. Nor is each situation exactly the same. But I can warn you that [...]

The Advanced Review Copy, or ARC as it is called in the trade, is a book that has been released in advanced of the public release for review purposes. Usually they are sent to well known and established reviewers who the publisher feels will give the book the best coverage before it is actually released [...]

We are faced with the reality that we do not always like what we read or we do not agree with the material presented in bound form. So, what do we do about it? When discussing fiction, there are probably more good books then bad out there, and with so much good, why waste your [...]

We all remember book reports from school. Most of us remember the 6 questions we were taught to use to write these reports – who, what, when, where, how and why. And most of us hurried through these boring and sometimes painful reports just to get them done. One page, hand written, scratched out on [...]

Review; [n] an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation. Ah, book reviews. Those snippets of writing that can recommend someone to pick up a book or to avoid it like the plague. A review by an ‘acclaimed’ critic, (I’m still not exactly sure what this means. Someone who knows what they’re talking about, [...]