An Interesting Experiment

This morning on Goodreads, I received an friend request from a Goodreads Author.  My first impulse was to reject him since he had 25 books and over 800 friends.  Then I took a closer look and noticed a few interesting things.

• He's written three books
• All of his books are self-published through Author House
• All of the ratings for his books are five stars except for a to-read.

Bits of an experiment came together in my head.

1. Befriend this author
2. Finesse a free copy of one of his books out of him
3. Proceed to give it an honest review rather than one of the obviously planted ones.

We'll see what happens.  I hate when Goodreads Authors seed their reviews with obvious ringers.