Why should authors read your bad reviews? | Books | The Guardian

History has yet to find the book that is universally adored - or the author who enjoys reading bad reviews. While Angie Thomas has topped the charts and scooped up armloads of awards for her two young adult novels, The Hate U Give and On the Come Up, her recent request that book bloggers stop sending her their negative reviews saw her on the receiving end of a wave of vitriol. Thomas wasn't asking reviewers to stop writing bad reviews. She was just asking that they didn't give her a prod on Twitter or Instagram to tell her about it.