- 86.8LEGITIMACY SCORE
- 87.3SAFETY SCORE
- 17+CONTENT RATING
- FreePRICE
GoodNovel - Stories & Novels App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
GoodNovel - Stories & Novels app received 50 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using GoodNovel - Stories & Novels? Can you share your negative thoughts about goodnovel - stories & novels?
Please wait! GoodNovel - Stories & Novels Facebook comments loading...
GoodNovel - Stories & Novels for Negative User Reviews
✓ Way too expensive!The book I was reading is really REALLY good, however you pay by chapter, most of which are incredibly short (2-3 pages) and the amount per chapter goes up with each one you read. At this rate it would cost over $50 to read this book! It’s incredibly greedy considering it’s an ebook. I hope they change this system before everyone abandons this app, as the concept is great and a really good way for new authors to get themselves out there and also get real time tips and critiques. Fingers crossed the authors are getting a decent chunk of the money, not just the app owners..Version: 1.6.0
✓ Not worth the money Good Novel expectIf you could buy the entire book for what the book is worth or pay a subscription like Galatea, then I’d say yeah do it. I say this because, if your reading a high ranking book, each chapter is worth more bonus/coins to unlock. For example I’m reading two books on this app, the first book I’m reading you use an average 12bonus each chapter. The second, higher ranking book, I just used 30 bonus to unlock a chapter that takes 2 minutes to read (and I’m a slow reader). Now to unlock the next chapter they want 33 bonus, which is not possible to accumulate this much bonus without paying for coins/bonus. So to make it worth your wild acquiring 63 bonus isn’t possible in one day. To expect the kind of money they want those of us wanting a good read, a proper editors should be provided for the writers. Great stories, but poor grammar, spelling mistakes, etc. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.Version: 2.1.5
✓ Extremely expensive. Book without an end. Avoid!It’s very frustrating that you cannot just buy a whole book. You need to pay by chapters. With £45added to my account I couldn’t read half a book! Who they think they are? JK Rowling? The worse is that when you get to chapter 550 you discover the book is not even finish yet. To be continued... you can check before as the chapters are locked. Would it be much better to charge a normal e-book price and have people coming back every week than take money like this from people (yes because once you start to read a book you want to finish and keep adding more and more). Like this many like me will just not come back. Would be more honest to just charge de £80 at once for the book than let someone squeeze more money, part with £45 and still not have finished the book. I’m so crossed with this company and certainly don’t recommend the app. A book you cannot finish is not even worth to start! Ah! And the bonus points are a scam. They don’t work as they should..Version: 1.3.1
✓ OverpricedYou start reading a book and pay a small amount, thinking it costs ‘10 coins’ a chapter but then the price goes up to 60... It ends up costing around ten times the amount you would pay for an actual paperback book. I would never have paid; knowing that the novel I was reading hadn’t even finished being written yet. The writer then drags it out, repeating chapters from a different person’s point of view, riddled with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Plenty of people have commented to correct them (Jane Doe) but they still make the same mistakes... Please take some writing lessons (or at least Google how to use apostrophes, plurals and possessive terms) and rid us all of your stupidity. The writers get paid by the word, so I’m guessing it’s more fruitful for them to add agonisingly unnecessary description. A clever ploy to force people to continue reading (and paying) but the consequence is that I’m getting bored and annoyed by the end of the book... As a writer myself (not on this platform), I’m not at all impressed and it’s no wonder that these types of books never get published..Version: 1.2.6
✓ The Almighty Dragon GeneralGood story but very annoying as only get a certain amount of chapters a day. Some days I only get 2 chapters which can be as little as 5 pages. When I read a book I like to know how many chapters & pages there are, but know way of knowing in this app. You get interested in reading the book & think ok a couple of payments & you’re finished, but I have already spent over $600 NZ dollars on this one book & still don’t know where the end is. I could just stop reading it yes but I can’t start reading it & not finish it. Had I known it would cost me this much to read I never would of started..Version: 2.3.2
✓ Expensive and AnnoyingI don’t like how many coins and adds are involved.. how can you get into or read a story. If you buy coins these books are close to $25 which seems high..Version: 2.5.1
✓ Scam!!!Crooks! Paid 30.00 for coins not recieved.Version: 1.1.3
✓ BIG RIPOFF STAY CLEAR!They hook you on the story and part way through the charge you which is bad enough, IF you were getting the rest of the book but then, after a few more chapters they want you to pay again! As well, the story itself is very poorly written , many grammatical errors!.Version: 1.2.6
✓ Some nice selection of novels overpriced and technical errorsNumber one the difference between the authors is very apparent some only write six iPhone screens worth of pages and consider that a chapter others write a lot more.I would pay for a monthly subscription. There’s quite a few books that seem to be ongoing with some weird situations which is a shame because some of the characters are quite nice and you want to find out what happens with their stories. They seem to be quite moneygrubbing and also the authors are not checking that work for accuracy especially with names this is very poor. If people do not want to commit to a monthly subscription I feel there should be some more ways of getting points because some of the ways are absolutely rubbish you get gems can’t you exchange some of them for some coins et cetera Number two since the update my 15 minutes and 30 minutes are not working properly I’ve taken it to screen grabs that or hours apart and yet apparently I read two out 15 minutes,And even though I’ve been reading for a few hours now I’ve only read eight minutes. Something is definitely wrong.Version: 1.7.1
✓ Where is my money’s worth? Can’t even finish a book???So I read this story on Facebook, I did not expect it to be long but I finished reading it anyway and end up leaving me hanging.. I got hooked and forgot what I needed to do. Got to chapter 10, now if I want to continue reading I need to purchase coins.. Ok, I just wanted to finished the story.. So I bought the 5.99$ for 600 coins but it turns out.. I got billed 9.99$ in my account now I’m on chapter 80.. you’re asking me to buy more coins to continue reading???? What is this???????? CAN U PLEASE EXPLAIN OR GIVE MY MONEY’s worth!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡 .... okay, so, I just figured out how things work. You purchase coins and you use that to unlock chapters of a book. So, to unlock all chapters in the book I’m currently reading.. I need to spend almost 200$. I’m not really a novel reader but the story was good. I just wish I knew it before..Version: 1.2.6
✓ Most expensive bookThis app is not designed for readers as instead of providing a fair subscription service, the chapters are broken into a series of mini chapters which force you to pay an exorbitant price to be able to read one book. All chapters are extremely small and just one scene can be broken up into about five chapters which seems like the author or app developers deceptive way of trying to charge a lot of money to read very little. I would not recommend this application to anyone unless they have a high income and don’t mind paying more than 10x the amount that a novel costs in the book store. Books with a lot more substance, well written sentences and thoughtful storyline’s are out there. It is almost like a scam at this point as I can’t fathom what the pricing is accounting for when you have to read a poorly written on your phone.Version: 2.3.7
✓ Impossible to get through a bookAnother app with the pay to unlock chapters model. You can unlock by buying coins or waiting for daily bonuses to add up/ doing extra challenges like watching ads. The concept falls apart though when the cost is too high and the reward so low. After your coins have run out because £15 won’t even buy you half of a book (ridiculous in itself), you’ll then have to use the daily coins. Only 15-20 per day, and each chapter is 38 coins. That’s minimum two days to read a chapter. And don’t think about saving them so you can unlock multiple chapters at once, they expire after a week. Want to watch an ad for extra? Ok, that’s 2 mins per ad, for 1 measly coin. You can waste over 30mins of your time and you won’t have enough for even half a chapter. When you finally unlock the chapter, you’ve forgot what’s happening because it’s been days and the chapter is under 2 mins long (I wish that was exaggeration). You get nothing moved along in the story and left on another cliff hanger. It feels pointless to keep wasting time on the app because I end up swapping so much between apps and all the stories get muddled. Stick with Dreame, it’s the better pay to read app, or better yet, support your local libraries and borrow actual books, you’ll have a better time..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Purchase failed. Charged but no coinsI have had multiple issues with this app in purchasing coins but my purchased has stated failed and I did not get my coins but I was still charged. This app tells me to go to Apple for a refund and tells me they dont have a receipt of my purchase but I show them my receipt and they don't honor this. And apple declines my refund because they see the app got my money. This app wont reply me when I show proof and they don't honor payments. Disappointed. My money has been taken and no coins. So far paid for 2500 coins in total and got ZERO!.Version: 1.9.2
✓ Very good plotI started reading with very low expectation but got hooked to the plot. Got me interested of what’s going to happen next so I look forward for the following day to start reading again. It’s frustrating to earn the 3points for a 18pts per chapter reading so I don’t know if I have the patience to continue much longer to finish the story. Since I have read this much, I expect that I would have access to read per chapter with less number of points required. Overall, I am happy with the story..Version: 2.1.9
✓ Holy heck I may need a mortgage to finish readingOnce I finish this book I will need to take out a mortgage. I will need approximately $300 USD to read strath to finish which is approximately $420 CANADIAN. The story line is catchy but sometimes redundant., repetitive and corny the author for this particular book is too obsessed with weight and appearance. If the chapters weren’t an average of 6 pages long at 22 coins per chapter this would be great. I feel if people could buy an entire book for a REASONABLE price this app may generate more income to the authors. The ads to watch to get bonus points only get a person a maximum of 15 points per day which is way less than heat is required to read a chapter and they take way more time to watch than it does to read the chapter. Give us more short ads to watch with better bonus coins collected and perhaps the ad companies would pay more in return as well. It is also filled with typos and grammatical errors making it even WORSE to think that if I want to see if they stay together it could cost me $420!!!!.Version: 2.2.3
✓ GOOD NOVELHere is my honest review about this app. I got hooked on the book When His Eyes Opened on Facebook. It said the book was free however IT IS NOT FREE! You are allowed to read so many chapters for free but then you have to pay for more as they are locked until you pay for more. Plus there are so many chapters. I am on chapter 1538 out of (at last update) 1895. You can earn bonuses by logging in daily, logging into the website daily, reading for 15 and 30 minutes a day. I have already spent over $120 for chapters and am at a stopping point again. The chapters are locked if you do not have enough “coins or bonuses” to continue. I tried other sites that have the book for free but some of the characters name changed and was very confusing. DO NOT GET SUCKED IN! The chapters are technically approximately 1 page long (if read anywhere other than on your phone) and they keep adding chapters so that now this book is at chapter 2330 (I think, I’ve lost track). I cannot afford to spend anymore money buying coins to be able to read this book. I have now spent over $200 and I don’t think I will ever get to the end of this book. I WILL NOT PAY for another round of coins. I probably could have bought this book outright for 1/8 of what I have paid fur coins. I’ll log in daily to get the login bonuses and use them. If and when I do finish this book (it may take me a year)I will delete the app. I REPEAT DO NOT GET SUCKED IN UNLESS YOU HAVE MONEY TO WASTE.🤬🤬🤬🤬.Version: 2.1.3
✓ Lost out on money and book kept freezing!!!I usually don’t leave reviews but I needed to warn others! It’s not cheap on this app to buy coins needed and the chapters to unlock require a lot of coins and after spending so much money it’s even more frustrating when the app constantly freezes or doesn’t load the story at all!!!!!! The worse parts, I was reading two stories and one story just froze!!! It would not load no matter what I tried to do! I know it had a lot more chapters available and I had plenty of coins to unlock the next chapters but nothing!!! The other story I was reading, figuring I would start another one and give that other story a day or something and see if it would load again, so anyway, I started having issues with my login and what not so I logged out and when I logged back in the story was gone from my library!!! When I searched for it again, I saw that it reset and locked all the chapters back up again!!!!! I wasted so much money on unlocking all those chapters and now they are gone!!! Both stories started over so I wasted over $40 on just two stories and now it was a waste!!!! Don’t waste your money or time on this app!!!! I was enjoying two stories in this app until all this craziness happened! I have all the receipts pricing that I purchased all these coins but yet when I check my wallet in the app is only shows 1 transaction!!!! I’m so mad and over this app!!!.Version: 1.9.1
✓ Customer Service Curves YouI actually really enjoy this app and the books on here are great. I love the setting options of the reading as well. One HUGE flaw. The online website reading and audio dilemma. I reached out to customer service multiple times because you can’t read ANY book online (GoodNovel website) after chapter 8 when logging into your account. Even if you pay for the chapters after chapter 8 it forces you to read on the app instead of allowing you to read your PAID book online. Which is so wrong. Not all the books on the app have an audio feature so i use Speechify to read to me. GoodNovel blocks any outside audio reading application from working on their own app. So i tried logging in online as an alternative so my app can read to me. It works until i hit chapter 9. I try to open paid chapters online after chapter 8 (AKA chapter 9 and beyond) and it won’t let me read AT ALL after the first paragraph. It cuts you off and forces you to open the app. So frustrating!! I’m beginning to purchase the Kindle books instead of using the app because of this problem. Which costs you money GoodNovel. When i tried messaging customer service they tell me to give them more information. Which i did originally?? and then silence. Pls consider giving your customers the chapters we paid for online..Version: 2.1.8
✓ Too many pop-ups, chapters costs too muchHave read some good books by some promising authors on this app but the app itself isn’t great. There’s no upfront cost of the books you’re reading. Each chapter varies in cost and without any transparency about the number of coins required to unlock each chapter, there’s no telling how much it will cost to get through a book. The app bombards you with pop-ups, promoting different books, special offers and “free” coins (they’re not free, by the way). When you open the app, you need to close at least three of these annoying pop-ups just to get to your library. The user interface of the app is a bit clunky, too, especially when claiming rewards. When a rewards task is completed, you have to manually claim the reward. Time-based rewards don’t accrue more than 10 minutes at a time, so you have to close your book every ten minutes and reopen it to continue accruing more reading minutes to earn your reward coins. The minutes spent reading also don’t record accurately so you need to read longer than it says to claim your reward. I enjoy the books in the app but don’t like the app itself or how the developers deceive users..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Great concept, terribly overpriced.I’ve started several fantastic books (or read the first 10 or so chapters for free on Facebook adverts), definitely get you hooked and wanting to read more. Sadly it’s far too expensive. I’ve been reading one book for about a month now. Claiming my daily bonus coins, unlocking one chapter every 2 days (usually costs between 30-45 coins for a chapter but some have cost up to 60). I keep debating putting just a bit of money into the app. £5 would get me 550 coins. Probably enough for 12-15 chapters (if I’m lucky). Which is only about 15% of the book.. I’m not ready to drop £25+ on every book I want to read. Some aren’t even finished being written but you won’t realise until you reach the end of the last chapter and it just says more to come. Chapters also get significantly shorter after the first few I found. Some only being 15 or so pages long (not that you get that much text on a phone page). Which takes literally only a few minutes to read. Can be disheartening to save up 2 days worth of coins to read for not even 5 minutes. Concept of unlocking chapters and having many books to browse is nice. But too expensive overall sadly. I’d love to support the writers and have tried to search if I can just outright buy their books anywhere else but no luck..Version: 1.4.6
✓ Rip-off £8.99 and can’t read a book!!!Initially I thought after reading a couple of chapters and being asked to pay to finish the story it wasn’t too bad, BUT that’s wrong… you pay to read some more only, not the rest of the story… you get so far and go to turn the page (so to speak) and it pops up asking for more money…. Complete con! The one I was reading was ok, but the grammar is appalling, some errors in he/she with characters throughout… so a tough read in that respect, but I wanted to support the author who appears to be a mother of young children… Complete money maker for the app people, I doubt the writers actually get much of the money kind readers are handing over! Save your money, you can buy 2 books in a supermarket for less than half a book on here… or better still support charity shops where often a book is less than a pound! I do not recommend!.Version: 1.9.1
✓ Married by Mistake Novel -This is a scam to make you pay more and more money to get the next chapter. The story starts off being a good storyline that hooks you in, but after 230 chapters with no conclusion in sight, I refused to pay any more money for a story that is full of grammatical errors obviously written by someone for whom English is NOT their primary language. Apparently it goes up to 1400 chapters and still not close to ending..who even writes books with so many chapters..Mind you its 6-8pages a chapter...the more chapters the more money the author gets. Iv Deleted this app and assume all other novel apps are the same.Version: 1.3.8
✓ Married at first sightReally struggling with the quality of this book and others on here. The chapter length is ridiculously short 30 seconds to 1 minute to read. Then stupid ads to watch and then $US10 to buy more coins that run out in a flash! Catch me out paying once, call me hopeful, catch me paying again, call me stupid! The storyline repeats itself 1000’s of times and drags out so much it is just so cringey. The actual line of the story is fine, but absolutely not worth the frustrations of the repeating just to add words to a chapter. Not even worthy of a free book. Atleast iBooks offer 1st book free, then you pay for a sequel which might only be $5 in total! This is just a con. I won’t be uploading this for free coins, because I’m deleting the app, but I hope you read my review and take some notes and stop wasting time on useless writing. Also, it should not try to be westernised!! We are interested in your culture so please do yourself a favour and honour it!.Version: 2.2.4
✓ Colossal waste of money for incredibly poor and disrespectful to readers writingI got hooked to one of the books on Facebook, so I downloaded the app and kept reading. It was never mentioned anywhere that you will need to buy coins to continue reading. I would be ok maybe paying $10, but it seems like it is going to be a never ending story with hundreds of dollars lost. In previous reviews someone mentioned that if you were to buy an entire Harry Potter series or Game of Thrones, you’d pay similar amount of money. I bought and read both, and I consider that a great way of spending money. This, however, is a complete opposite. It seems like it is written by a child, completely careless of the outcome. Zero editing or proofreading. A premature baby born after 10 months of pregnancy, mixed up names, F country, “arriving to a certain location”, “reasonable reason”, a 5-year old hacking a computer and developing a tracker and self-defense device- these are some of the memorable screw ups. The author feels like they need to explain everything and remind everything over and over again, to the point when I, as a reader, feel like a 5-year old. I have to give it to the developers and authors - it is a completely new way of scamming people not only for money, but for the intellectual abilities- who knows how many IQ points one can lose over reading this combination of soap operas plots and minimal writing skills after very heavy hangover. Scammers!.Version: 1.4.1
✓ Over priced!There is some great books on here, but also very poorly edited. Authors sign themselves up for multiple books - I looked into the process and they apply by giving a book title/ cover and a brief overview. Then get offered a contract to write the book. Then blame the company they have so many books to write and can not keep up with producing chapters, and can’t keep up when in fact they took that on by choice. Chapters cost a lot of money to open - or you read one a day if you collect enough coins- maybe every second day. Coins are expensive. A chapter can be 8 pages long or up to 14 I have found and take about five minutes or 8 minutes to read. Definitely not worth the money when they are poorly edited (missing words, characters names are wrong or change constantly, poor gramma etc). One book can cost you easily over $80 AUS to read..Version: 2.1.3
✓ Love at first sightI like the story and it’s free to read for few chapters. Otherwise you have to buy coins to read the whole book which it will turn out more expensive. This is the downside of this type of ebook. Anyways if you’re not in a hurry to finish it better check in every day to gain coins so you don’t have to spend a dime for this story. I have a feeling that I won’t be able to finish this story just any other ebooks I’ve started to read. Thanks.Version: 2.3.7
✓ Ripped off/scamThey ask money in the ending part of the story..Version: 1.2.6
✓ Absolute SCAMI must say - someone came up with a great way to scam unsuspecting people. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since it was Facebook that brought me here. Innocently enough, it started with a Facebook post on my feed. I began reading what felt could be an interesting short story. Before I knew it, I was at Chapter 4 with no way to continue unless I downloaded this app. Seemed harmless enough so I did - and got to about Chapter 7 where it insisted I pay for coins to continue reading. Well at that point I was invested so I paid $5.99 for several hundred coins. NOWHERE did it state how many coins might be needed to complete the story nor did it provide any information on how many coins would be charged for every new chapter. Well, I blew through the hundreds of coins in about 40 minutes and about seven chapters with the story still nowhere near the end. At that point I decided to cut my losses and walk away. No way was I going to pay another $6 for more coins without disclosure of how many would be needed to finish the story! This was a complete scam. Amateur writers with no editors should not cost more than bestseller novels from a trusted book store. The story contained so many typographical errors - it was difficult to read. Learn the proper use of contractions and commas for goodness sake! Basic sentence structure, please. Avoid this scam at all costs - unless you have no better way to spend your time and money. Definite RIP-OFF!.Version: 1.6.1
✓ Too expensiveStarted reading a book on Instagram only to find out I could not find it anywhere to buy it, as it’s only available on this app. Downloaded the app, added the book to my profile and only a few very short chapters along realised the remaining 250 odd chapters of the book were locked. First I though buying $2.99 in coins would allow me to read the rest of the book. How wrong I was. Each chapter first cost 10 coins to unlock, but now they are up to 35 coins and each chapter is only 9/10 pages long. The book would cost a fortune to read if I were to continue to buy coins, so I had to resort to collecting bonus points daily, which allows you to unlock 1 chapter a day. As the book I’m reading has over 250 chapters, I’ll still be reading the same book one year from now, as I refuse to spend any more money on a book that is not even been written professionally. Would not bother had I realised how it works..Version: 2.2.4
✓ Scam!I started reading what seemed to be a pretty good story. I didn’t mind paying $10 to, as I thought, finish the story. Having now paid over $50, and with the story’s end nowhere in sight, I’m just not paying any more. I would NEVER pay this much for any novel from a bookshop, so this is outrageous! The plot is becoming more and more ridiculous, the editing is appalling, the continuity is abysmal, and I still don’t know the ending. UPDATE: I have just learned by looking up the novel online that although I got you to about Chapter 500, there are over 2500 chapters in this book! That means that it would cost me over $250 to read to the end of this! ON WHAT PLANET IS THAT EVEN A VAGUELY REASONABLE PRICE?!?! Don’t get me wrong, the story itself has some merit, but NO old-school publisher worth their salt would print a book so poorly edited! WHEN I TALKED this over with my partner, who is much more familiar with reading online than I have been, I learned that reputable sites or apps will tell you up front how much it will cost to read the rest of the story. I deleted the app at that point, and have not, and will not ever download it again. I’m disgusted that Apple permit such piracy..Version: 2.1.7
✓ Scam$15 for 1000 coins and don’t even get to finish a book?scam scam scam. Shame. May your family fall on misfortune..Version: 1.2.6
✓ CommentThe books are written fairly well. Some grammatical errors noticed while reading. I find the chapters are short for the amount of coins used to unlock them compared to other apps..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Generally a good appI generally like this app, although does work out expensive, especially as most authors i would consider are amateur, and it is difficult to know how much a book costs as you are charged by chapters My biggest criticism is that translated books are put as English, and many are poorly translated, it would be nice to have the country of origin in the bio. And yes i do enjoy the translated books, although from some countries they are difficult to read. I enjoy them as they aren’t politically correct , i but would just be nice if they flowed rather than having to interpret the meaning. Some books i have stopped reading as the translation become so bad. My recommendation also is to find books that have been completed to read, as the ongoing can be a tad annoying, unless uou only want a couple of chapter every couple if days. Would also be good if the search function also included being able to search for audible books easily. Also of note it is difficult to track your spend, as you are not receipted, and thus don’t use this app as my primary anymore, have moved onto more transparent apps..Version: 2.3.2
✓ Sucked inI got sucked into reading part of one of the books on Facebook… it was a really good story line and I wanted to know what happens! So I downloaded this app only to soon after find out you need a certain amount of coins to read the next chapter (chapters are also super small like two or three pages) so in the end if you were to read a whole book you would spend $50+ and maybe not even finish reading! So much more than buying an e-book or paper book. Great way for someone to make money, good way for readers to go broke!! I must say good books, bad editing and way too expensive unless you want to read 3 pages every 3rd day when you earn enough coins from checking in and watching long boring adds….Version: 2.2.0
✓ Rip offThis was a disgraceful App the story was shallow and poorly written, The App producer gave a few chapters to advertise offering the remainder of the book for free if we down load the app. Once down loaded they hold back the last chapter or so, expecting payment to unlock them. Disgraceful!! I will not recommend this app, If there was a lower score than one star, I would have used that one instead..Version: 1.1.4
✓ Too many creditsThe books can be intriguing but with always having to get credits/ tokens it feels like work to enjoy a book. Paying $10 for tokens that only last a couple chapters is too much, I can buy a book cheaper.Version: 2.5.2
✓ Terrible Stories, don’t waste your moneyWay more expensive than real books and written by complete amateurs…. Don’t waste your time or money. These books were obviously never edited, the authors have horrible writing styles, have done no research for their books, terrible grammar, incomplete ideas and some of the stories just never end they just ramble on and on with no basic writing 101. It’s like they wrote a rough draft on a whim and never read what they’ve written. A story needs a beginning, build up, climax and ending. True writers spend years pouring over and over their books to get everything right, yet these books were like high school students who just sat down and told a story with no thought process or structure. Characters are unbelievable, story lines stupid, and seem to be written by teenagers… I will correct that, I learned more about writing in 9th grade creative writing class then these authors have ever seen. These people need to take a class in basic writing and story telling. Go to a book store and spend a fraction of the money to buy a real book, edited and published by a reputable company. Each chapter is like 3-4 pages has thousands of chapters and it costs money every chapter… by the time you read the very poorly written whole thing you’ve spent hundreds of dollars for a terrible story. I’ve probably spent more time and thought on this review than these authors spent on their entire story, and I wouldn’t call it a book..Version: 2.1.8
✓ Not impressedYou put advertisements with samples of books up for people to read so we will download then you have to pay per chapter!? Every chapter is all of 3-4 pages long!?!? The book I was reading would have been $150.00 to read from start to finish! The storyline is great, the writing, grammar, and word choice not so much. Would gladly pay $10.00 for the whole book but $150.00!?!?!? for an amateur writers book no less!?!? Come on! Be realistic.... oh and sorry I’m not spending 200 days doing all your little “freebie tasks” to finish the book..Version: 1.2.6
✓ Too ExpensiveAlthough the stories are okay, obviously mature which is why most are not published through a reputable app, the coins are expensive for the quality of writing….so disappointing..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Amazing Son-in-LawI got hooked to the story I can imagine what really is happening. But I think it’s not worth it. It cost too much, I will rather buy a book at Indigo which cost less than continue my subscription with this. I already paid $50.00 Canadian $ and it’s not done yet. Today January 21, 2021 they are asking me to put coins again to continue with the story... This is ridiculous!!.Version: 1.2.9
✓ FAR too expensiveGot this app three days ago due to an Facebook advert. The book I have been reading has been incredibly well written and would deserve a 5 star rating. for this type of book I would expect to pay £2.99 as it is not part of a series and due to events in the book I presume I’m maybe half way through and don’t get me wrong I’m all for supporting authors but so far I have paid £12 and the coins do not get you very far at all, as I said I’m probably not even half way through the book! I manage to read for about 30 minutes and then the coins run out and you have to pay more. I imagine the money I’m paying to read is going to the developers rather than the authors themselves and it is just greedy. For that I will not be investing anymore time in this app and hope that the prices do not continue to be this high as I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way..Version: 2.1.9
✓ Do not getAwful app. First few chapters are 20+ pages. drops to 2 pages a chapter once free chapters are done. They expect you to pay $100+ for a book through the app. Would not recommend to anyone..Version: 1.6.0
✓ ReviewI really like and are captivated by the story I’m reading but it is getting sooo long with every sentence repeating 3 times on just one page. It’s dragging out just too long. I want to know how it ends and even paid money but I’m just not getting any closer to the end. I have lost interest and haven’t continued reading in many month. Every time I check in, the chapters are getting more so somebody keeps adding to it and that doesn’t make sense. I do want to know the end so I keep checking in every now and then but I won’t be spending any more money on it and I would not start a new story..Version: 2.1.9
✓ This app is asking for an honest reviewWell, well, well! This reading app wants an honest review, but they stress that only 5 star reviews will get the free 50 bonus points. Well app company I don't care about your free 50 bonus reading points. These potential readers are gonna get an honest review. The reading books that are offered start out great and just about the time that you should be hooked the stories get repetitive and the same stuff that we already read is repeated over several chapters and to top it off the chapter's are very short. You have to buy points to continue reading the story, the catch is the points that you spend $20 on for like 400 points, doesn't go very far when each very short chapter costs you 22 points or you can watch the short 1 min. Advertise ads and be awarded points. The most points you can earn for free is about 60 points per day which will only give you a couple of free chapters a day to read, so people spend the money on points to continue reading. In order to finish a book buying points you will spend probably about $300. Number of chapters per book are 350 or more than 500 chapters depending on the book you choose to read. My advice is don't get started with this reading app unless you want to get ripped off. You should be fine if you play their game and watch the ad's for their points and don't spend your money. Just my honest opinion and advice for what it is worth!.Version: 2.2.5
✓ Authors deserve to be paid for their work, however customers deserve greater transparency.Seeing chapters released as they are printed is a fun way of watching a story develop, and it goes without saying that authors work hard and deserve to be paid. How we pay them seems to be the pain point. It is fine to pay in a coin format, it seems the crux of the concern is how that payment is extracted. It seems no one person wants to see ‘you need to buy more coins’ at chapter 50, after having spent $10 on coins for the book already. This is particularly bought home by the fact we don’t know how much longer there is to go and therefore how much we will end up paying for a book in the end. It feels like being held to ransom and although it does not cross any legal lines, it seems manipulative and dishonest. Coin sales use points packaging positioning, time offer urgency and bonus points to lure customers to pay more each time or you can sign up to auto pay. It is the equivalent of ongoing in app game purchases that will amount to significant spend over time. Using coins to pay for books as each chapter is released is fine; my suggestion here is if there is no option to pay for the book up front due to the format, at the very least offer a capped spend to consume the whole book over time. The current strategy seems a little short sighted for ongoing customer retention, when there are better offers out there in the market for similar content..Version: 1.6.0
✓ SCAM APPDon’t bother, they hook you in and then you pay $100 for a book that would be free on Kindle Unlimited. If they let you read some free each day, I wouldn’t mind, but they won’t even do that. I think I can read 3 pages and then it wants you to buy coins to read more. The book has 900 chapters and I’ve already paid to read the first 200. Am deleting the app! Oh and to get extra free coins, if you give them a 5 star review they’ll give you coins. That’s why there’s so many 5 stars. Quick google and you’ll see everyone is saying stay away!.Version: 2.5.2
✓ CostlyI enjoy the app and find it easy to use, but the cost of coins to unlock chapters is expensive. One story I was reading I thought all the chapters were the same cost (10 coins) and that was not the case, ( most chapter are 30-50 coins). When added up 20-40 bucks isn’t a lot to pay for a book but this is a virtual book not a hard copy, the chapters are super long for the length of a regular book and the books are in for the most part early stages of editing. The stories I’ve read are very captivating and good but the quality for price is a little steep..Version: 1.2.7
✓ BooksWish it was cheaper to read chapters but not bad not my favorite but not bad.Version: 2.5.1
✓ ExpensiveThe annoying thing about this app is how much it costs to unlock chapters. Instead they should work out how much the book costs and unlock the book that way. I bought coins thinking it would be enough to unlock the book, but it barely got me half way through. I appreciate writers and the platform need to make money, but when an average book from a store costs a fraction of what this costs it seems stupid. This is a great way to read new material.. and for writers to get out there. And the content from some writers absolutely amazing. But why does it have to be so expensive?! 5 quid to open 10 chapters Im not half way yet... so that book will cost me a fortune. And the bonus coins are a great idea but sometimes that’s not enough to open even one chapter. If like me you can easily read a book in a day or two it’s definitely not for you. It’s a shame as the books I’ve started reading are brilliant..Version: 2.2.9
✓ Married at first sightI am enjoying this story but it seems that I have to pay out for the privilege every few pages. I’m am so thoroughly disappointed in this site it was recommended to me by my booktok friends and I feel very cheated. I’m in Australia so when I am choosing the $4.99 option I am actually paying $8.99 and when I like to read for a few hours each night this is nothing short of highway robbery. Tonight I reluctantly paid yet again after only reading 5 pages on my phone so not very big pages and after making the payment the story was whisked away from me only to be replaced by another story I had no interest in reading and I can’t get back to the story I have paid for. So far I have paid over $48 to keep reading this story so when do I get to finish it and at what cost..Version: 2.3.8
🙂 GoodNovel - Stories & Novels Positive Reviews
GoodNovel - Stories & Novels works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact GoodNovel - Stories & Novels.
⛔ GoodNovel - Stories & Novels Problems
