As pointed out on FB

[james_davis_nicoll]

Regarding Jemisin's The Fifth Season:

What a waste of time. I very disappointed in this book---no characters, no plot, not even pages! It turns out it doesn't actually exist at this point, and not for another year, so trying to read it now is fruitless. How are these other people rating it at 4 or more? WTF?

Comments

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

This is a recurrent problem on Goodreads. A lot of people, apparently, don't know how to put something on their to-read shelf and give it a star rating instead. But the site can't disable reviews for unreleased books because many of the top reviewers receive ARCs, and a lot of mid-list titles end up hitting store shelves before their official release date.