#it's not just alison weir books either - i could imagine someone getting a few pages in before it clicked they'd bought the other kind
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sometimes while reading review of history books on amazon i come across one that seems to think the book is fiction. i don't mean they bought the book in the mistaken belief that it was and now they're complaining about that, i mean they've read the book and they're saying it's quite good but a bit dry and goes off on odd tangents and the characters were poorly-developed so they found it a bit difficult to get into the story.
i'm going to chose to believe this is just people who read almost exclusively fiction failing to adapt their review vocabulary when discussing a work of non-fiction, because the alternative's just a bit much for me to accept.
#it's not just alison weir books either - i could imagine someone getting a few pages in before it clicked they'd bought the other kind#(some of her bad reviews are own fault for not doing an iain (m) banks but oh well that's her decision to make or not make)#i myself have occasionally bought the wrong kind of book by accident but you can usually tell right away can't you?#does it open with a quote from a dead historian or does it open with a woman describing her own appearance in the first person?#are there sex scenes full of euphemisms or a well-footnoted paragraph on 16th beliefs about the uncontrollable horniness of women?#is the venerable bede cited as a source or does he show up to make love to the protagonist? things like that. certain signs one might spot.#history fandom
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