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Colossal waste of money for incredibly poor and disrespectful to readers writing

I 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!
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Caught in a web

So I was on Facebook and this story pops up. Marriage by Mistake. I started reading and was like oooh exciting. So I downloaded the app and started to read the story. I got to a point where you had to purchase coins for the story. I’m like sure I will buy the book for $5. So thinking I bought the book I started reading. Enjoying the way the book was going and boom I would have had to pay more. I was like what. So read the comments and seen that the book was on going. I don’t believe that it was worth more than that so I did not by more. I waited for free coins. Once I received them I read. Eventually the story got to a point where I knew it was going to turn but it never did. I made it to chapter 116 before I deleted the app. The writer has talent but I’m not sure if they actually know how to make a book that continues in a good way. I believe that the writers have to write a certain amount each day. There is a way to continue a book without continuing the same story and the writer lacks in that department. It’s kind of disappointing. If you are reading this I suggest not to get caught in a web. You will not be happy when you spend 100 plus and the story is pretty much the same. I don’t know what the ending is but I can tell you getting to chapter 116 wasn’t worth more than the $5 I spent. Good luck
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Amazing Son-in-Law

I 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!!
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Costly

I 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.
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Overpriced

You 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.
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Ripped off/scam

They ask money in the ending part of the story.

Scam

$15 for 1000 coins and don’t even get to finish a book?scam scam scam. Shame. May your family fall on misfortune.

Not impressed

You 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.
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DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR $

Saw the ad on Facebook for the book about Charlie Wade and thought it was just some short story that someone posted so I started reading it and after a while it said in order to finish the story I had to download the app so of course I downloaded the app without thinking or reading any reviews and continue reading I get about 30 chapters in and suddenly a chapter is locked so I buy the cheapest points possible the $5.99 for 600 thinking that’ll get me through the rest of the book because it was only going to charge me nine points to continue reading little did I know it was nine points per chapter after that I ended up getting to about chapter 60 still hooked in the story even though it was poorly written I was invested by this point again not enough tokens to continue reading so stupidly I bought another 600 I am now $12 into this book and haven’t even gotten halfway through the story. I decided today to check out the app and see if I could find out how many chapters are in this book since I’m running low on points again. This is an 800+ chapter book meaning it would be cheaper to just go to a bookstore and buy a hardback Limited addition version of a book then it would be to read one here. This app is a scam and charges way too much money for mediocre books
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Rip off

This 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.
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