As a first time author, I was looking for constructive criticism for my first story. Instead my first critic was a person who gave me a 1 because he didn't like reading stories with an under age character. Now, in my synopsis, I mentioned the main character was 15 years old. If he didn't like reading these stories OK but to read it then give it a 1 for content is just ridiculous. My second critic really cut the story down saying it read like a children's book. Everyone has a right to their opinion but what gets me is that this person misspelled several words and used "to" instead of "too" in the revue. When I checked for stories written by this person there were zero. Isn't that always the way.
So far the rest of the revues have been very positive.
Please don't get me wrong, if you have legitimate and constructive criticism, I am always willing to learn.
Thanks.