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Hello, I am keristars. This journal was created to have a separate place to house my fanfic reviews. I'm quite the bookworm and I've read a LOT of fanfiction. Over the years, I've amassed a number of reviews in my head, which are swimming around and when I see a story recommended or linked, the reviews for it pop out. Well, in this journal, I shall write them out for others to read.

The title 'what not to read' is a take-off of the BBC/TLC show "What Not to Wear," in which poorly dressed people are told why their taste is bad and how to improve their look while still maintaining their own style. They are not only being told what not to wear, but what they ought to wear instead. In the same vein, I am both telling of stories not worth reading and those that deserve oodles of praise, and why I feel this way.


I will not write a review for anything I feel is utterly hopeless, because those stories are not worth spending time on. If your story has been reviewed and it receives a poor rating, please do remember that there is something about it that kept me reading to the end, and I feel that it could be improved with careful editing - I do not give a poor rating to be offensive. (I don't know how else to put this; I know authors will be upset by a poor review, but I don't intend to upset them. I think of this very much like the reviews in the newspaper, where film directors or chefs or authors have no say about what is published, only in how their original work measures up.)

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