Hinovel - Read Stories Reviews

by Pla502az

The book I was reading had the main characters of Master Hunter Jackson and Emily. I am mentioning this as I can’t remember the title and have since deleted Hinovel . While I really don’t care if a writer is an English speaker as their primary language, this book was edited so poorly, it was obvious that the writer wasn’t. Some of the sentences were difficult to follow because the editing was atrocious and pronouns and character names were mixed up.
It was too long. I gave up after chapter 185 as I didn’t see an ending in sight. Add the cost of buying chapters, and that was the final blow. It may be helpful if the coin issues were addressed and explained. I did notice little flashes of “coins available or something like that” while reading, but had no idea what it meant. Good luck in the future!

by Dsai44

I downloaded Hinovel because I had started reading one of the story and it was interesting but found out you can’t even buy the whole story at once. They give you a few free chapters to start with and after that you have to buy every chapter with a coin, at first I thought that’s not bad but then every chapter you buy they increase the price and there’s about 300 some chapters. On top of that their chapters are very short. So, Hinovel is not worthy. It’s a rip off.

by Annoyed -

By the time you have read through one of these poorly written off label books you’ve probably spent more than $20. If there was any editing at all it was poorly done. I believe the one story I read was not originally written in English and had a terrible translation. Pronouns were all over the place. Grammatical errors on every page. Redundant to say the least

by Cooper1408

Got Hinovel cause I liked one of the stories displayed on Facebook. You only get so many chapters before you have to pay for them. Some of these stories you get 20 chapters free but there are 200 chapters to some of these books, meaning you have to pay for 180 chapters that aren’t well written, have tons of grammatical errors, some of the content doesn’t even make sense. I don’t want to pay for amateur writing that half the time I have to correct. I’ll stick with books that have been properly edited, they are actually worth the money.

by Jcpetre

I tried reading one book. The 1st 15 chapters were free, after that you had to purchase each additional chapter with “coins” you paid for through Hinovel . Those 15 chapters were the equivalent of about 1 - 2 chapters in a regular book. That particular book had nearly 350 chapters. And it wasn’t as if each chapter was the same number of coins each. The first few chapters were 10 “coins” each, from there it varied from 15 - 46 coins per chapter. To read the entire book would cost approximately $50. This is the kind of book you could get as an eBook that you would pay around $3 - $5 for and then own the book. (No I wasn’t stupid enough to purchase even a single chapter). After my review is posted I plan on deleting Hinovel.

by C.Kleckner

Each chapter is short and requires coins to unlock. I ended up spending $23 to read one book and it had a cliffhanger ending. The book I read had a ton of grammatical errors and a lot of words that were incorrect, for example “It took them awhile to grasp the levity of the situation.” When the author clearly meant “gravity” as it was a tense scene and not funny at all. They also want you to report errors. If I had done that I would have spent most of my time reporting and hardly any time reading, and they would get editing for free. Bottom line too expensive, especially for books with so many errors it interferes with the enjoyment of reading them.

by Nysa1986

I think it gets too expensive to finish a book since you have to pay to unlock chapters and sometimes I get the feel chapters are too short. God forbid you get hooked on a book with 100+ chapters-LOL. And WHY should I spend coins on the author’s notes? …For books that are not edited and have lots of errors and I agree with other reviews that sometimes it gets hard to follow due to grammatical errors the price per chapter is not fair. The books I’ve read have been great, really liked them but not fair to pay $40 for 1 book when I could probably pay less at the bookstore.

by Bcris90

As everyone I was hooked by a storyline I read on Facebook, immediately I downloaded Hinovel and started reading could not stop until I passed the free chapters that were given. I think I’ve spent more than $60 to finish a book, it was over 400 chapters. I almost did not finish the book due to missing words, grammatical errors, etc. It felt as if the author was writing as I was reading. I think Hinovel has potential with the great stories it has but please fix the errors that are in the books and charging system

by FunkyMusician

I started reading one story. It’s compelling but riddled with typos. I was enjoying it and really looking forward to what happens next. I was stopped when I received a notice stating that the next chapter would need coins to unlock. I like apps where there is a weekly update and it is clear it updates weekly. At the same time with those apps if it is finished you can binge the entire thing if you want. I am uninstalling Hinovel and sticking to apps that make this more clear.

by Hidden Cost$

Why is reading your books a scam? You allow readers to read and sign up for a subscription which does not allow you to read the full book. You ate required to purchase coins for a ridiculous amount of money? If you sign up a subscription you should be able to enjoy reading without having to make a purchase. Please do right by your readers and do not have a hidden agenda to s am customers!

by Lab90/487

I’m not an English major by any means, but the writing is so poor it is tough to understand the story at parts! I read other reviews seeing how much it is going to cost to finish a book. I can’t get past how Terrible let the writing is. The story sounds like it would be good but if jumps around with no warned to different people’s perspective. And you can tell English is not the first language of whoever wrote the ex-wife one specifically.

by Isyou2019

I would love to give Hinovel 5 stars and if not for the fact that the longer I use Hinovel and read the more I lose ways to gain points daily to read. I started out getting reading points for an hour and a half hour. The first to go was the points for an hour and then the points for the 30 minutes of reading was cut in half. I read many other apps I enjoy and have not ran into this with any other of them. It’s strange. If that doesn’t bother you and you don’t mind paying the higher than most app prices to buy the books I think you will really enjoy Hinovel. The stories are truly sweet!

by Amoralexing

I have owned multiple apps like this. This is the first time I’ve struggled with earning rewards for reading. I don’t mind having to check in, or read to earn rewards. But even tho I’ve read or 30+ minutes Hinovel refuses to give me rewards. How are you supposed to read and earn coins if the rewards options keep glitching. All my other apps do not have this problem. Maybe you should add a reading time tracker to allow the reader and app keep track. Ridiculous.

by Tanner7890

Any reading app is a great thing but there is always room for improvement. Personally, I like to scroll when reading rather than tapping so that feature could be added! Also, would be nice as an author to allow different fonts like bold and italic to emphasize certain things within the writing process!

by JB8278

I am really enjoying the book I’m reading right now. The only down fall is you have to “purchase” the chapters with coins. You can earn coins slowly or spend money to get some. Wouldn’t be too bad but it’s 20 coins per chapter and this book is 220 chapters long 😩

by Kam080912

this app has really good stories some of them are free but the one I like isn’t and to be honest it’s really expensive but because it’s really good I don’t mind paying you also get points for reading I think you’ll love Hinovel if you try it

by Melanie677

Everything is good and Hinovel has updated quite a lot. As a writer on this platform it is great but I wish that we would be able to respond to the readers comments or even send them a message through since they also like to be updated about your other works. So I'm hoping that it will be inputted in.

by Care Drama

Would be great to receive more coins then little by little and also for every chapter to be so expensive in coins but to each is own The more you read but then at the end is all business.

by Marr1785

I like the fact that these chapters are longer than other ones. Some of the other book apps I read the chapters are so short and then you have to pay to read more. Atleast here you can read several chapters before having to recharge. I’ve only just started on Hinovel and I’m already liking it more than my other ones

by ReGina And Ronnie

I really have enjoyed this story of Emelia and Julian. My only complaint is amount of grammatical errors. The tenses, pronouns and even character names get mixed up badly sometimes and that makes it difficult to follow. Those types of errors are very distracting. Other than that the storyline is very enjoyable. Many unexpected twist and turns. At this point I’m excitedly waiting for what I believe will be the last few chapters. Hoping for a happy ending since the two main characters really went through a LOT.

by Just_COMPLETE_story

Vary guy