Signal boost for a great post by OB -- everyone should read this.

And while you're at it, why not go the whole hog and also read Moonlight's The Shaming of Blythe Harris?

To Kathleen Hale and her ilk:

Ever.

And for the record:

Tasks for Día de Muertos and All Saint’s Day: create a short poem, or an epitaph for your most hated book ever.

I decided these two ought to be buried in the same grave, so here we go:

Also:

And:

Not even with a ten-foot pole:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1330173616

http://nospin.booklikes.com/post/1221059/so-i-shelved-a-book-on-gr

https://m.facebook.com/bookofnoor/posts/842158659211115

She has, incidentally, apparently gone viral:

Probably not being publicly patted on the back by Ammy for denouncing a reviewer whom she herself had contacted with a review request in the first place didn't exactly help much, either:

Not even with a ten foot pole:

http://the-gal-in-the-blue-mask.blogspot.de/2015/06/review-fairy-tale-formula.html

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25191813-the-fairy-tale-formula

http://raiyine.booklikes.com/post/1186396/authors-and-their-issues

Not with a ten foot pole:

https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/#/users/10049/books/544619/review

https://kdp.amazon.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=197987&start=75&tstart=0

https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/#/users/10110/books/544619/review