Okay so when I finish reading a book I loved, I’ll often write a short review or give it a good rating and leave it at that. But with books I hate it’s different, in fact sometimes I’ll be midway and not want to continue reading but my desire to “hate” on it properly and my curiosity to how worse it can get will motivate me to finish it so I can write a long essay on why it was bad. It’s not tiring, it actually comes very easily but I can’t help but think sometimes if I have an issue or other people might feel or act like that.
Same here. I find that positive reviews are often boring or cliche, or at least it’s harder to make them not boring/cliche. “I laughed, I cried, I stayed up too late reading it” – all cliches, even when they’re true. But in negative reviews, it’s easy to be very specific about what I disliked.
It’s the Anna Karenina principle: all positive reviews are alike, but every negative review is negative in its own way.