Thank you so much! This won't help me just write a review. This helps me understand how to get more meaning out of the books I read.

Thanks for the video this helped me write my first book review.

Great video!! I love your videos and thanks for being kind to all book authors and reviewers!!

I absolutely love this video! It's the first video of yours that I came across and by your second tip for book reviewing, I was sold on your channel and I subscribed! Really helpful points. Thanks for this video! :)

I love that you started off the tips with being kind. I've seen videos of booktubers being completely rude when talking about the author just because they didn't like the book. It's uncomfortable and sad to see. Thanks so much for doing this video. I want to do reviews on my new channel and blog, and I was so confused on how to do so. Your video helped a lot. 😊

This was extremely helpful, thank you!!

My notes from the video: * even if book is terrible, look for 1 good thing that you liked * even if it was the most awesome book ever, find one point to criticize * authors background: incorporate the authors background into the review * no personal attacks on the author * POV: who is telling the story? * setting: what does the setting tell about the story? * genre: what is the genre? what would one expect from the genre? how does the book fit into the genre * theme: what is the theme? what is the book telling you? what does the author want get across? is there a definite message? * style: formal/informal? tone of the book * pacing: balance between action/tension & rest scenes/release * plot: what can be said about the plot (plot is the bones of the story)? what is this book all about? give a clue about the direction that the story is going in. is there a question posed at the beginning of the story? * character development: is there character development/growth * writing quality: > coherence: yes/no (did the writing make sense?) > clarity (was it easy to understand?) > concise (did it have lots of unnecessary details or did it have only the essential points for that story?) > originality (did the writing have its own voice/own tone/own style?) > forcefulness (was the writing passionate, did it get its message across? was it meaningful?) > development of ideas (were the ideas developed or were they started off and ended up as an tangent?) > fluidity (does the writing flow from sentence to sentence in a coherent way, from scene to scene, in a coherent way? * personal affect (how did this story/book affect you personally? your personal experience when you read the book) [try to pin down one word to describe your feeling when reading the book] look for a better words than “good/interesting/brilliant” for describing the book if possible

Great advice, I review books on my channel and rewatched them recently. Glad to see the evolution of my reviews and style. This video may help!

Your insightful video is helping me write my latest book review; I appreciate your work!

Amazing! So informative! Thank you!

I came across this video today, it was in my recommended section... i know it's an older one, but I found this to be very helpful. I've just started doing reviews and all I can think of saying is ITS GOOD I LIKED IT, lol

i want to be a critic , " not officially " just to help other people to understand or to find what they are looking for ... this is helpful , thank you

Hi, how are you? I loved these tips! It's very hard find one thing I liked on a book that I hate or one thing I didn't like on a book that I love, but we must show all about book. Thanks for tips. p.s.: sorry for my "bad english", I'm Brazilian and I'm still learning English. I love your videos!

Thank you for making this video. I used it to supplement my instruction on critique writing with my middle schoolers.

Thanks for the help 🙏🏽 it made it easy on my book revenue

A very inspirational video. I hope to inspire more towards creating videos and book reviews without spoilers

I found your video very informative. Thank you.

Execellent tips!! Thanks!

what I look for in a book is the quality of storytelling, even if I don't like the action or the descriptions, when a story is well told I stick around. For me, it has to do with the fluidity of the narration and also with a balance between action and psychological descriptions. Thank you very much for your video. Very clear and concise in your explanations and very honest about what you know about the topic.

This is excellent advice!

Thank you Ms. Kailey!

This is veeeeeeeeerrrrrrrryyyyyyyy helpful thank you now I know how to write a book report

I actually have a really hard time writing reviews, so this video was great for me!

love this video

thanks for the video ...helped me a lot by the way you've got a nice collection of books

yeah, thanks for replying, you are my favorite booktuber, and I love to, watch your videos.

This works in a simplistic way. Not every book has a message” or an obvious genre.

WAW.. very useful tips thank you very much.

I started to write book reviews recently and really enjoy it. Thanks for your tips!

Great stuff!!!

Hello, I really loved your video, it has some really helpful tips. Can you please post a video on how to exactly write a book review on an autobiography?

Very informative. I do children book review. Learnt quite a lot. Thanks.

Thanks for the help

thanks! really helpful :)

Thank you. This film is very useful.

thanks hope it will help as i have to write my first book review

I agree about knowing things about the author like Andy Weir turns out "The Martian" was his first book so to me it was just that more amazing.

Some great tips.

I feel like the wildwood trilogy should be more hyped around booktube, it's so amazing, it actually changed my life and made me always want to have a book in my hand, I just hope the author of wildwood writes more books, he is such a talented authors that should be more well loved by the world, when I finished wildwood I was suprised it wasnt a classic, and that not many others had read it, I guess the size is intimidateing, but big books are always amazing, but they have so much to tell, and I usually fly through big books faster than little books.

you go very deep

My pet peeve is the editing so I make sure I write about it, good or bad. "bravo to the editor" "the editing is distracting and could have used more time" "the editing could use a last pass, but nothing to keep you from the flow of the story" Sometimes I'm really specific because it happened several times during the story such as "the 2nd author had problems making the difference between an adjective and an adverb (blatant/blatantly) and it was diverting the attention from the story". I love to review: POV, setting, pacing, character development, writing quality - where editing is also present here - development of ideas, fluidity, and personal effect. I tend not to write about the plot, the theme, and the setting because I don't want to give any spoilers. I hate when someone just rewrites whatever was at the back of the book - I see this as an infringement of copyrights - and/or gives spoilers "en masse"!

I am starting a BookTube channel and I am horrible at writing notes, thank you so much for the tips I will be sure to shout you out when I start filming and posting :D

loved it thnk you

Thank it aS so helpful

Nice one kept it up

Good tips!

I found this video super helpful! I'd love to see if your methods have changed in the past 3 years.

love the intro

Foul language is something I had hoped you would address. I did pick up some good tips and will be working on incorporating.

you're both informative and cute thanks. writing a critique and this gives me some clues as to what I should do having thrown writing at the wayside throughout my education until now lol

OmG i love this sireously its goooooood sireously read it is nice i undersatand all things very clearly

*Where can I find paper writing company?*

Thank you

how do you identify the author's thesis? need this for my book review tysm :)

this is my sister channel and i love ur channel when i be big i will be a writer

A very informative video for someone who is trying to review his first book. I tried to follow you on Goodreads but seems like the page is gone.

yes

Why are you so underrated ?

Isn't it funny that the most important channels (like this one which teaches you about things you might need in school or in life) are the ones with less subscribers

I was blocked by am author for being honest....I’ll try out your tips thanks for the video!

Nice video

This was very helpful. Thanks. Jean and ruby will appreciate if you could review their book on Amazon called " MR CUDDLES ViSITS MY HOME. THANK YOU.

i have just watched Yaasha Moriah Published on Jul 30, 2015 it is good but it would have been much better if you had told us how to review books other than novels. what about grammar books..philosophy books.. literary criticism books..linguistics books ????????

the author background is so true

I enjoy Fantasy novels..., As you mentioned, character growth is a biggie for me as well. If the protagonist is a barnie bad butt and all goes according to plan; the story loses it flavor for me.

At 1:02 How to critique a book. The verb critique doesn't exist it needed to use Criticize instead,

OMG!!! This woman is so incredibly beautiful!

you are too cute while you explore about books

Amazing @theonertc