Rottentomatoes.com is a great site to find out what film critics and other moviegoers think about movies. But if you want to know what the critics think about books, you had to check out several websites—until now.
The new website www.idreambooks.com gathers reviews in one place. It is “the first site on the Internet that aggregates reviews from professional book critics like New York Times or Washington Post and recommends a book if 70 percent of critics give it a positive rating—similar to rottentomatoes.com or metacritic.com.”
Percentages are accompanied by either smiling or frowning clouds. But what the public likes may be different from what the critics say. The popular Fifty Shades of Grey only got a 30 percent rating.
The site also offers free book giveaways, with winners are posted on the site’s blog.
This article appears in Aug 23-29, 2012.
Book discovery is indeed a big problem, looks like it will survive beyond infancy! Only concern is the number of books, have to increase their book database!
Yes! idreambooks has already helped me find a new book. Very happy I found this site!
I opened up idreambooks and entered a book I am reading, “City of Thieves” by David Benioff and it was not listed. I tried a couple of searches by title and author.. no luck. I have had the best luck with Amazon.com. Not only do they do book reviews, but product reviews.