3 Rules I Follow to Write Book Reviews

A Mini Evergreen Rant

If you are subscribed to my emails, you already know that I write a lot of Romance novel reviews. I try to keep them short. I try to keep them fun (for me, at least). I try to keep my space a positive, constructive energy zone. In other words, I try to write the reviews I want to see out there on the Internet.

So I took the time to write out what resulted as three rules I look to create a review for the bookish community.

Get your Bottom Line Up Front.

You can ignore the rest of this post as far as I care if you just get your bottom line up front.

This is also known as a BLUF. It is a helpful approach for most short-form communication. I use this writing approach during my 9-5. My emails, my meeting agendas, my reports…BLUFs are everywhere. The BLUF is the tagline and thesis statement. It is the elevator pitch. It is the "understand this if nothing else" point.

I try to make that first line work anywhere with minimum context and attention. So, it is usually one or two sentences with the ti…