Synopses #BookBloggerHop
Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer.
This week’s prompt is: Do you use a book’s synopsis for your review?
I don’t use the publisher’s synopsis in my book reviews.
Writing my own summary of a book helps me gather my thoughts about it, so it’s often the first thing I write — kind of a warm-up.
I don’t like to give spoilers in my reviews. Often my summaries give fewer spoilers than the publisher’s synopsis. A publisher’s aim is to sell the book. My aim, as a trained librarian, is to match the right book with the right reader. I want to reveal just enough in my reviews for you to know if this book is right for you.
How about you? Do you put the publisher’s synopsis in your book reviews?