The woman who's passed her damning indictment on this novel is, after all, a literary critic, so she's reading it in that guise. Plus, it's the opinion of just one person. I can only hope that people decide to read this book before passing their own judgement. If it's a pile of hog-wild west horse poo then I'll be brutally honest about that fact, but until Amazon Logistics make the rag-tag transaction and deliver it to my door, I'll be very excited, thank you very much.
If established proverbs were allowed modern day updates, I think a famous one would now read 'Don't judge a book based on an ensuing Twitter shitstorm'. Admittedly that doesn't have as much of a ring to it but I think there's some sense in that
