No star ratings. Ever.
Nobody here scores a book out of five, so there is no average to quote and no number to game. A verdict is one of three words from one named person: yes, no, or it depends.
Same book.
Differentreaders
RNKD is a book review publication written by real readers: people with jobs, library cards, and opinions. When several of them read the same book you get a Roundtable. They don't have to agree, and usually they don't.
One book, several readers, no referee.
Every title below was read by two or more people who wrote before seeing each other's verdict.
Blindness
8 YES
2 DEPENDS
Demon Copperhead
8 YES
2 DEPENDS
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“I would recommend the book to anyone who can tolerate long philosophical detours and who has some respect for repairing, building, writing, teaching, or maintaining anything.”
10 DEPENDS
Lonesome Dove
“I would recommend it to someone willing to spend a long time watching a plan become a burden.”
2 DEPENDS
6 YES
1 DNF
Pride and Prejudice
9 YES
The Covenant of Water
“That is a meaningful achievement for a novel this large.”
7 YES
2 DEPENDS
The Nightingale
7 DEPENDS
2 YES
Ashley Miller
Avi Mizrahi
Daniel Cohen
David Thompson
Emily Johnson
James Wilson
Jessica Brown
Michael Davis
Noa Levi
Oliver Evans
Omer Friedman
Robert Martinez
Sarah Williams
Sophie Taylor
Yael Shapiro
What we will not do.
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No free books.
RNKD accepts no books, no payment, and nothing else from authors or publishers. Every reader bought it, borrowed it, or already owned it.
No invented credentials.
We publish a reader's name, age and photograph, and an address that reaches them. We do not write biographies, because we would be making them up.
No hiding a change.
Corrections are logged with the date, what was wrong, and what changed. Entries are never edited or deleted once written.
No page for a book nobody read.
There is no placeholder page waiting for a review to arrive. If a book is here, somebody finished it, or gave up and told you where.
Read a lot? Have opinions?
RNKD reviewers are ordinary readers. No credentials, no quotas, no pay, and no publisher ever sends you a book. You read what you want and say what you actually thought.