Reader's Rights

In light of the many bruhahas and kerfluffles that have surfaced lately in which authors try to dictate how readers and reviewers should write reviews, I have written up a sort of Reader's Bill of Rights.

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Reader/Reviewer Bill of Rights

1. As a reader, you have the right to review any book you have read in any manner that you wish.

2. You have the right to squee and write a fangirl/boy review if you loved the book.

3. You have the right to not finish a book and review it (but you should clearly state that it was a DNF).

4. You have the right to rate a book, but not write up a review.
a. You have the right to not like a book and not explain why.
b. You have the right to love a book and not explain why.

5. You have the right to talk about possibilities the author could have taken.

6. You have the right to read passages and not like the book. You may even choose to write an essay about why you didn’t like the book passages you read.

7. You have the right to dislike a book and wonder why others liked it.

8. You have the right to love a book and wonder why others hated it.

9. You have the right to review the entire product (cover, formatting, editing, paper, et cetera).

10. You have the right to start anywhere in a series.

11. You have the right to read other books in a series, even if you hated the first one.

12. You have the right, when writing a review, to use any short hand phrases that you like, such as “card board characters,” “reads like “Twilight,” et cetera.

What would you add to the list?