What makes the Story Star Standard Different?

Whilst other book review systems exist we aim to bring something different, consistent, and professional:

1. Professional Criteria – Each book is evaluated using a consistent framework which is judged by professionals.

2. Constructive Feedback – Each review will focus on the book’s strength and weaknesses, offering the author areas of improvement instead of just critique.

3. Detailed – Each review is a detailed and comprehensive overview on the author’s book. Not only do we write an analysis of the book on each of the seven critique areas, we provide a marketable tagline that can be use, and a short overall summary for prospective readers and author marketing.

4. Ethical and Transparent – Each star is earned not paid for, paying for a review doesn’t guarantee a star, but it does guarantee detailed feedback, with books that didn’t receive a star will have a insightful explanation at the end of their review of what needs to happen for their book to achieve a star.

5. Author’s Integrity First – Our reviewers our asked to be objective, professional, but also considerate to authors, making sure feedback, particularly negative feedback, is focused on helping the author grow not knocking them down.