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Should Book Bloggers Publish Negative Reviews?

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Bloggers Publish a Negative Review Blog Header

“Should book bloggers ever publish negative reviews?”

This is probably one of the more polarising discussions I’ve observed in the writing community.

There does seem to be a notion amongst certain book bloggers that publishing less-than-favourable thoughts on a book in the public domain is something that should just not be done.

I disagree.

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