Rebecca A.
A scam at best
I read the book, wrote the review, under what I thought was the guidelines. I paid for said book it was NOT free. The review was all within guidelines minus one thing, I didn't put the star rating in the review, I had assumed as one would, that the star rating would automatically be included. The other 'errors' were all subjective from one of their little wannabe editor minions. Basically I gave an honest long review without spoilers and it was rejected for being honest on the opinions of one person. I had no idea that it would take so long. A honest review by regular people is what they offer authors but that is a lie. They basically are getting people to buy books in order to promote the authors and finding every which way not to pay the reviewers for their honest opinions. Having realized this during the first review process I cut my losses having only been tricked into one book and asked repeatedly for my account to be deleted. First it was please remove my work email address and change it to my personal one, which to no avail I only got the runaround and no one could actually help me. Then after the start of the review process and me realizing this was a giant scam I wanted all of my personal information removed from the database which is my right since I never and would likely never receive a payment. I did what I was supposed to in order to permanently delete my account and now over a month later I am receiving yet more emails about my review needing to be rewritten. They have now violated my request to be removed from the system on more than one occasion but since my account is 'deleted' there is absolutely no way to contact them about emailing me and still keeping my personal information on file. Another huge red flag if you ask me. That unless I make an account I cannot contact them about issues. So here we are. I had considered making this review when I first discovered the scam but thought it was a waste of time but now in direct violation of not removing my personal information I will make sure this review is seen as a warning to others to not use or trust this website. DO NOT use this site or allow them your valuable time as they will only waste it.
Response from OnlineBookClub.orgJan 23, 2026
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