What Is Review?
A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object, or phenomenon. Reviews can consist of books, articles, entire genres or fields of literature, architecture, art, fashion, restaurants, policies, exhibitions, performances, and many other forms.
This would fascinate book lovers. Some people feel, after reading a book that it was not worth all the time they spent on reading it. Thus book reviews enable people to buy and read the right books. But book reviewing is not an easy job for the reviewer for he has to read the whole book (no matter if it's interesting or boring). So here are some tips for reviewing a book.
1) Do the Research
Read the book, take notes and compare and contrast with other class materials. Locate reviews of the book in the professional literature and read them.
2) Introduce the subject, scope, and type of book
Identify the book by author, title, and publishing information.
Include some background to enable readers to place the book into context. Describe the general problem the book addresses or earlier work the author or others have done. In framing your review, you should provide some information on the author. What are her relevant qualifications and background (or lack thereof) for writing on this subject? What were his reasons for writing this book? (Often the preface contains such information.)
3) Summarize the content
A: Body Paragraph 1—Plot
1. Main idea of the story/book
2. Where does the story take place?
3. When does the story take place?
4. Something unique about the time/place in which the story takes place and
5. How it affects the characters?
B: Body Paragraph 1—Characters
1. Main characters of the story/book:
2. What are the relationships like between characters in the story/book:
3. Does something important or meaningful to the story happen to a or between
4. Characters? Describe it in one sentence:
4) Analysis and evaluation of the book
The critical analysis is one of the main ingredients in a book review. This section should talk about one’s learning’s from the book and whether it holds an important or interesting message that caught your attention. What I like to do is add in my personal book review format is about two paragraphs on what I liked best about the book and what I didn’t like. If you find it useful to include comparisons to other books, keep them brief so that the book under review remains in the spotlight.
5) Final Verdict
This is another key section of a good book review format. A lot of people don’t have the time to read your whole review so for all those skimmers out there; this is like a short bullet point summary that says Yes or No!
Also in case you know where one can get this book at the best possible price, then do it! There’s no harm in telling your readers where to go and buy it from.
Tips
· Do not reveal too much of the plot.
· Do not reveal the climax of the book
