Whats good etiquette for an independent book review site?
I’ve been doing reviews on my site the same way you have and have been going through the same thought process. I also write reviews for library publications, and recently dealt with a particularly bad review of my own book on someone else’s site where they made fun of my sister and called a lot of the book “boring”. The trick seems to be to explain why you don’t like the book without being totally snarky about it, or without going into a rant about why you don’t like the author. You may not like the author, of course, but that’s not quite relevant to your review of the book, or if it is, you can find a way to explain it in some professional manner. My feeling is, for myself as well as for you, if you’re prepared to back up what you say about a book if someone talks to you in person, or emails about a review, then I think it’s totally appropriate to keep putting your reviews online and sharing your opinions. I know there are some people whose review pages are just new places for them to
