When you go to a bookstore and buy a book, you pay, what, $10-$35, depending on whether it’s an ebook, paperback, or hardcover. Maybe $45-$55 for a large or limited-run hardcover book. The book will have gone through an editing process prior to publication. The book will have been carefully designed by a human, its font, its layout, and the cover and interior art by a human artist with thought, skill, and talent.This app? Look forward to spending at least $100 on an unedited, un-proofread, unprofessional “novel” that is obviously not planned out. Each novel will cost you as much as the most-expensive college textbook. For no reason. Don’t support grifts like this.

A chapter is about 15 pages long(the size of your phone screen, with a pretty big font size, so basically 15 paragraphs of text). It costs 200 coins to unlock a chapter. Each ad you watch gives you 10 coins and lasts for a minimum of 45 seconds. So it takes 15 minutes of clicking through ads to earn enough to unlock 1 single chapter of a story, which will take you maybe 5 minutes to read, if you’re a slow reader.Or you could pay $20 for that same chapter I guess. Not sure which is the worse deal honestly.

I would love to read more of the book I started on this app. It says the next chapter requires 199 coins to read. You go to the rewards section to see if you can watch an ad to unlock the next chapter. You get 10 coins per ad and the daily limit is 3 ads. It also lets you check in and the reward is 5 coins and you can get an additional 5 coins with a bonus ad from the check in so in total I can get 40 coins per day when the chapter is almost 5 times the cost. How is anyone supposed to read these books without using real money?

The 4 plus star rating is clearly from people paid to give a good review. In reality, you have to pay a fortune and even if you watch the ads, you get maybe 30 bonus a day, and you need 199 coins for a chapter. I’m not even sure if a bonus is worth the same as a coin. Don’t bother starting any of the stories, because you will either pay a fortune or just have to give up early. And honestly, even if you are enjoying the story, none of these are good enough stories to spend real money on!