Author Goes on a Viral Rant About Four Star Review "Ruining Her Average"

When one author won a four star review of her upcoming book, she took to TikTok in a now-viral rant. Here's what to understand about the placement.

Thanks to the internet, conversations about authors and evaluations are constantly discussed on platforms similar to TikTok and BookTok. Many agree there is not any singular guidebook for authors to navigate social media, so it's at all times a finding out curve to figure out when to get off the 'net and touch grass.

Unfortunately, author Sarah Stusek recently went too far after allegedly getting mad at a four-star review of her upcoming e-book. In a now-viral put up, she lambasted the reviewer on TikTok, together with the reviewer's identify, before insisting that she used to be joking. Here's the rundown of what came about and the way things grew to become out.

Author Sarah Stusek went viral for getting mad at a four star review of her upcoming ebook.

In a since-deleted viral TikTok posted on May 30, 2023, author Sarah Stusek lambasted a reviewer who rated her upcoming ebook, Three Rivers, a four out of 5 stars on the social media reading app Goodreads. "I had a perfect 5 star average till this b came along," she wrote over a video studying the review aloud and criticizing its issues.

"She said it was 'really great' but 'the ending was kind of predictable' and yeah well it's my life not an f---ing murder mystery," Sarah commented. "'But other than that it was incredible,' so you just gave me four stars ... why?" she concluded.

Immediately, lovers, reviewers, and fellow authors began criticizing Sarah, explaining that not only will have to authors not be in reviewer spaces, nevertheless it was terrible to make the reviewer's identification visual to the general public.

Shortly after the video's backlash, Sarah started responding to commenters that she was "literally a comedian" and "if you don't get it, I'm not going to explain it to you" in TikTok videos.

On May 31, 2023, Sarah's writer, SparkPress, gave a statement responding to her habits online. "For a number of reasons, including but not limited to attacking a reviewer and multiple others online, we have decided to part ways with one of our authors.

We appreciate our readers and value the time it takes to read and leave author reviews. While we cannot mandate our authors’ actions and reactions to their reviews, we do not condone attacking or making disparaging comments about reviewers under any circumstances."

The unique reviewer, Karleigh Kerbatas, posted a TikTok update on June 1, 2023, where she defined that Sarah reached out to her privately on Instagram to apologize for the video. She also requested Sarah to delete her videos insisting that the trashing of her review was a joke, which she has as of writing.

While many are grateful that Karleigh is not receiving adverse attention for her review, others are still skeptical of Sarah, who, also on June 1, introduced that her e book had been optioned for film.

If there is a lesson that can be discovered right here, it is this: authors don't belong in reviewer areas if they cannot interact respectfully.

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