GoodNovel - Stories & Novels Reviews

I must say - someone came up with a great way to scam unsuspecting people. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since it was Facebook that brought me here. Innocently enough, it started with a Facebook post on my feed. I began reading what felt could be an interesting short story. Before I knew it, I was at Chapter 4 with no way to continue unless I downloaded GoodNovel. Seemed harmless enough so I did - and got to about Chapter 7 where it insisted I pay for coins to continue reading. Well at that point I was invested so I paid $5.99 for several hundred coins. NOWHERE did it state how many coins might be needed to complete the story nor did it provide any information on how many coins would be charged for every new chapter. Well, I blew through the hundreds of coins in about 40 minutes and about seven chapters with the story still nowhere near the end. At that point I decided to cut my losses and walk away. No way was I going to pay another $6 for more coins without disclosure of how many would be needed to finish the story! This was a complete scam. Amateur writers with no editors should not cost more than bestseller novels from a trusted book store. The story contained so many typographical errors - it was difficult to read. Learn the proper use of contractions and commas for goodness sake! Basic sentence structure, please.
Avoid this scam at all costs - unless you have no better way to spend your time and money. Definite RIP-OFF!

I got hooked to one of the books on Facebook, so I downloaded GoodNovel and kept reading. It was never mentioned anywhere that you will need to buy coins to continue reading. I would be ok maybe paying $10, but it seems like it is going to be a never ending story with hundreds of dollars lost. In previous reviews someone mentioned that if you were to buy an entire Harry Potter series or Game of Thrones, you’d pay similar amount of money. I bought and read both, and I consider that a great way of spending money. This, however, is a complete opposite. It seems like it is written by a child, completely careless of the outcome. Zero editing or proofreading. A premature baby born after 10 months of pregnancy, mixed up names, F country, “arriving to a certain location”, “reasonable reason”, a 5-year old hacking a computer and developing a tracker and self-defense device- these are some of the memorable screw ups. The author feels like they need to explain everything and remind everything over and over again, to the point when I, as a reader, feel like a 5-year old. I have to give it to the developers and authors - it is a completely new way of scamming people not only for money, but for the intellectual abilities- who knows how many IQ points one can lose over reading this combination of soap operas plots and minimal writing skills after very heavy hangover. Scammers!

If you are looking for a digital book that you could buy at the library then this is not for you. Many or most of the stories on here are Massive ongoing stories that would be more comparable to multiple seasons of an ongoing tv series that might leave you hanging for awhile as they get more pages translated. Yes it is very expensive with some stories having over 2,000 chapters. However, how much money would it have cost you to originally read all books of the Harry Potter series when it first came out or to read all The Game of Thrones books. It is not cheap to read but if you add up the amount of entertainment hours you get, reading something unavailable in stores, it doesn’t seem as painful. I have just accepted it and enjoy them. My only complaint is that the translations are a little slow once you read to the end of what they have completed. Almost like waiting for the next season of your favorite TV Series.

So I was on Facebook and this story pops up. Marriage by Mistake. I started reading and was like oooh exciting. So I downloaded GoodNovel and started to read the story. I got to a point where you had to purchase coins for the story. I’m like sure I will buy the book for $5. So thinking I bought the book I started reading. Enjoying the way the book was going and boom I would have had to pay more. I was like what. So read the comments and seen that the book was on going. I don’t believe that it was worth more than that so I did not by more. I waited for free coins. Once I received them I read. Eventually the story got to a point where I knew it was going to turn but it never did. I made it to chapter 116 before I deleted GoodNovel . The writer has talent but I’m not sure if they actually know how to make a book that continues in a good way. I believe that the writers have to write a certain amount each day. There is a way to continue a book without continuing the same story and the writer lacks in that department. It’s kind of disappointing. If you are reading this I suggest not to get caught in a web. You will not be happy when you spend 100 plus and the story is pretty much the same. I don’t know what the ending is but I can tell you getting to chapter 116 wasn’t worth more than the $5 I spent. Good luck

Saw the ad on Facebook for the book about Charlie Wade and thought it was just some short story that someone posted so I started reading it and after a while it said in order to finish the story I had to download GoodNovel so of course I downloaded GoodNovel without thinking or reading any reviews and continue reading I get about 30 chapters in and suddenly a chapter is locked so I buy the cheapest points possible the $5.99 for 600 thinking that’ll get me through the rest of the book because it was only going to charge me nine points to continue reading little did I know it was nine points per chapter after that I ended up getting to about chapter 60 still hooked in the story even though it was poorly written I was invested by this point again not enough tokens to continue reading so stupidly I bought another 600 I am now $12 into this book and haven’t even gotten halfway through the story. I decided today to check out GoodNovel and see if I could find out how many chapters are in this book since I’m running low on points again. This is an 800+ chapter book meaning it would be cheaper to just go to a bookstore and buy a hardback Limited addition version of a book then it would be to read one here. GoodNovel is a scam and charges way too much money for mediocre books

I wanted to read one novel. Started reading on Facebook, and decided to continue reading on GoodNovel . I don’t mind paying ten bucks for a good book, but the book I was reading had more than 200 chapters. I was on chapter 40 something, and that was ten bucks. No way am I paying fifty or more dollars for a book. Especially since these books are not all that good. I enjoyed the story, but the grammar, spelling, and punctuation were atrocious. I can overlook that as these authors are new, and this is an app for amateur writers, but their books are not yet worth the kind of money I’d need to shell out to read them. GoodNovel need to either give way more free coins per day, make the chapters cost less coins to unlock, or make the coins much much cheaper, or else this is just a complete rip off. I’ve read the response from the developer to some other commenters about this being a scam, and I just want to say that the developers keep saying they want to give us affordable books and that we are supporting the authors so they can write good books. First of all, the books are not affordable, nor are they good enough to justify the cost, and secondly, I don’t mind supporting a good author, but these books aren’t even well written! (The storyline was great, though!)

I’ve gotten sucked into a story and have paid $20 dollars already and am only on chapter 75. Mind you each chapter is about 10-12 iPhone screen sized pages. Do not start reading Facebook stories. This is where it all starts. The complete lack of editing is extremely distracting. And if I’m paying what is looking like $40 to read one book that if in print would be around 200 pages, I expect so much more for the money invested. The authors are great story tellers but GoodNovel is too much. Don’t censor the cuss words for Pete’s sake. It’s like it’s on an automatic filter and puts asterisk where there was no foul language. My desperate hope is that the authors are getting most of this money and not the developers. I’ll be deleting GoodNovel as soon as I’m done. I’m halfway through Alpha Asher and I’ve already spent $20. Each chapter is 40-50 coins so no each day is not enough “earned coins” to get any value. GoodNovel is by far the most expensive with ridiculous costs. No where do they give any idea about how much it would cost to finish the book which is the scam part in my mind. If the pricing was upfront then you could make your mind up if the book is worth it.

So I started reading a story they had on this app and at some point I knew I’d have to pay something for the rest of the story. Chapter after chapter I read until chapter 20 (which each chapter was only about 3-4 small pages on my phone, likely at most 2 pages of a typical paperback) when at the end it asks me to spend 10 coins which is an in app purchase where you can buy 600 for $5.99, 1000 for $9.99, and so on increments of chips. I decided to look and see how many chapters there were and I find that there are over 2500 chapters to this story…. Doing a little math at 10 coins per chapter it would take over 25,000 coins which was over $200 just for this story that while yes it has a ton of chapters I’d say at least 3 or 4 chapters maybe 5 would need to be added together for to be a normal chapter of a book. These kind of micro transactions is just pure greed preying upon those who don’t pay attention to these things until they’d spent money and more money and more thinking they were almost complete with the story. Was the story pretty good? Yes it really was but is it worth $200 for me to read til the end, absolutely not. Buyer beware everyone, don’t fall for this scam like app.

Honestly when I saw the ads and book snippets for GoodNovel i was intrigued by it and was willing to download GoodNovel . At first, it seemed pretty decent, similar to many other apps that replaced wattpads nsfw/some sfw reading selection. But the longer I’ve had and been on GoodNovel , the more I notice how unfinished it seems and how absolutely ridiculous the coin to reading system is. So far, every book I’ve started only gives you a handful of free chapters before you have to spend coins or bonus points on the next chapter, which in general isn’t too bad, but the big flaw with that is how frequently it happens, there are no books that are completely free or at least 90% free. None of the books I’ve encountered have a wait for free chapter option, and when I do want to buy the next chapter with coins/bonus points, the price per chapter ranges so vastly that I don’t even want to read anymore. The books are pretty interesting, and aside from the bad grammar and punctuation in a lot of them, the overall stories are pretty good. I would just like to see some more growth and adjustments to GoodNovel before I decide to scrap it altogether.

Don’t bother with GoodNovel if you enjoy to read and enjoy reading a whole book if you choose to do so. I understand these books are either in the process of being written or someone’s first story but there is a thing called editing. I can get passed all the grammar mistakes but what I can’t get passed is reading a chapter or two, maybe three if you’re lucky and then being told you have to pay coins to read, or come back in so many hours or days. Sure you can buy coins just like you can buy e-books on Kindle or Nook so why bother here if you can only read so much if the book is still in the writing process and the coins only give you so much time or limited number chapters!!! As for earning coins, yeah that’s a joke! I read for over and hour different stories as far as I could go before having to wait or pay with coins and got nothing in coins for my time reading!!! I wish all the authors the best but truly GoodNovel isn’t worth it if you are an avid reader and writer like myself. Make some changes and just maybe you will have something. Check out other apps like this one they’re better than this one.

I’m reading the novel fated to the alpha and I’m super into it and just as it was getting better it froze. It wouldn’t let me go to the next chapter or the previous page, it wouldn’t let me even leave the book I had to exit GoodNovel and close it only for it to say loading when I try to click on the Novel to read it again. I ended up deleting GoodNovel and re-downloaded it. I click on the Novel, it made me start over. I go to the chapter I was previously having troubles with (chapter 75) hoping it would be fixed but it did the same thing. I clicked on another novel and it went through easily. I tried to sit and wait for it to load but as 5 minutes turned to 10 I realized it most likely won’t load. I do not want to start another novel until I finish this first one because I’m super into this one and it was the main reason I downloaded GoodNovel to begin with. I’m not sure if it’s something with me or GoodNovel or maybe just the novel itself but I would really like this fixed so I can continue reading the novel please and thank you

There are a few well written books on this platform, but the editing is atrocious. Even if multiple people point out mistakes no one fixes them. It makes it very distracting trying to read with all of the typos. If you can find the good ones that are interesting reads, then it’s worth it. But you will get no help from the book descriptions or reviews to try to discover the good books. It’s very hard to tell which books are good. Many of the books are terrible, make no sense, and change character names because the authors can’t remember what they wrote. And many of the authors seem like English is not their first language. You can easily tell when it’s someone writing about a country they are not familiar with. Really wish they would find some good editors, at least for the really popular books. And I wish they would write proper descriptions of the books and have more detailed genres. But you will also spend a lot of money trying to finish one book. I have no idea how they determine the price of each chapter, but for cost to value you are better off sticking to big publishers.

I’ve used a few apps like good novel and I tend to bounce between them. Good novel is by far the most expensive! I’ve spent $30 so far and have yet to finish my current book. I’m pretty irritated with how much it costs to read a book that isn’t professionally edited with many mistakes and errors, it isn’t finished, and some times it gets worse as the books go on. Some of the books on here are poorly written. However, I’ve found a couple that I’ve enjoyed. So far I like alpha Asher and p.s. you’re my mate. I do not love that it’s costing me almost 3 times as much money as any of the other apps out there. And honestly, as soon as I’m done reading my current book, I probably won’t come back for another one. If you do the daily check ins to simply unlock content and not spend money, it’ll take you a day and a half up to 3 days of check ins to unlock some of the more expensive chapters. So the daily bonuses are pretty pointless sadly. I’m mostly disappointed in how GoodNovel is run, the quality control, and the amount they charge for their poor standard of works. Very sad.

As previous reviewers have said I found GoodNovel thru FB and got really into the story and decided to download this app. It’s a great app and a way for Authors to get their books/stories out there and I totally support that…however it is on the more expensive side.
Most apps have in-app purchases to do certain things so that’s kind of what I expected here only I’ve spent probably close to $100 on GoodNovel because I do love the stories I just wish the coins you buy for your money weren’t so expensive because they go quick, instead of $5 for the lowest amount I feel $2 and up would be a good start.
There is also the issue with the typos- most stories on here have them, almost as if they are not proofread which can get kind of annoying and at certain same points make it hard to understand. this app is not everyones cup of tea but if you have the money you can find some really great reads on here. I recommend Alpha Asher & Alpha Loren.

I really like the books so far. I’m currently reading 3 at a time to help me rotate and gain the points. So far I haven’t paid anything yet. If you are a very impatient person then you will definitely hate GoodNovel but so far I’m ok. The chapters aren’t massive but they aren’t super short either and sometimes more then one chapter gets unlocked at a time which is nice. I’ve used other point based free apps and so far I like this one better. You can earn points by watching ads, logging in, reading 15min and 30min, adding books to your library and by adding friends. Basically I can earn at least 40 easily a day and there are times when the chapters just unlock plus they have surprise chances to earn the daily points again. I’m not sure if I could use this as my main reading app because I read so much the waiting would kill me but I definitely love it for the additional books I have read.

GoodNovel is wonderful, if you are looking for fully published works that have no mistakes whatsoever, don’t bother. If you interested in writing or reading works that are still in the making, this is GoodNovel for you. It is a bit costly. Some works are not complete. You purchase coins, which are used to unlock chapters within the book, a certain number of chapters are free. Authors do make money with GoodNovel, not by chapters, but by their overall word count for the month and it isn’t as much as a book deal. I am proud to say I have spent days on GoodNovel, reading, critiquing, and commenting. Authors want YOUR FEEDBACK. If you find a mistake, you can comment on the paragraph, a different set of eyes is sometimes the only way, and there isn’t a publisher for this. Help out your struggling poets and writers, everyone needs an escape from the world. These are the writers of the future! KEEPING BOOKS ALIVE AND WELL.

Maaan! I just deleted GoodNovel! I’ve had it 3 days! And all 3 days I used it.. ALOT! I love to read! And these were good stories! But it runs off a “earn coin” or “purchase coins”.. which is great! If it worked like it was suppose too! Every story I read, would just start getting good then you had to pay for the next chapter.. JUST 1.. maybe 8 pages?! From anywhere to 11-75 coins! You could earn coins kind of.. 3 for watching ads. But they only allow so many you can watch. Then 5, for reading for 15 minutes on the platform. Which I did. Several times.. for 3 days! And I received the 5 coins once daily. Oh you get 20 everyday, for showing up. But if you preorder the next chapter. It takes you coins.. and you have no clue where the book is you subscribed too.. I can read a whole book or 2 in 3 days! I haven’t finished any on GoodNovel.. which is why I didn’t bother to pay for anything on it. It’s a scam.. it’s great for starting writers! But not for thirsty readers.. I wish GoodNovel wouldn’t have tried to screw the writers so much! I would gladly go to my local library and check these books out.. mistakes and all!!

It is understandable to pay $15-30 for a brand new published book! But to have to spend more that and more to be able to read an unpublished/ in edited book is unfair. Yes you can wait two hours or try to get the free coins from reading time... etc, but the coin requirement for each “episode” increases basically making it impossible for you to earn enough without spending money. You would think writers would want their works to be read and enjoyed, but this is basically forcing you to choose spend lots of money or do not finish the book that you started. The first book I began to read has 99 “episodes” I spent $20 to read the first 50, waited every two hours to read the next 15 and now it says I can only unlock the last part with coins so- which means I will have to spend more money. Mind you these “episodes” range from 10-20 phone pages. Truly unfortunate that I will end up not finishing the book and I have started several others to get the coin reward, which I won’t be finishing either.

I started off reading “The Amazing Son-In-Law” first. I will admit it is a compelling story. But the liberties taken with the story are as shameless as the characters in the story. The editing is horrible as is the continual synopsis of what was just read at every turn. At times I wondered just how many people were writing this story. Surely a single author didn’t forget that he had relayed his story, only worded differently, a mere three paragraphs before! I would hate to think that in addition to making each chapter 5-10 pages long, that this was done as a way to increase the text in order to force your good readers to pay even MORE for these stories than is already warranted or necessary! Why for the price I have already paid for this story I could have bought 3 books from a bookstore! Or, failing that, on this very app! It truly is sad and honestly makes me think twice about digital reading material. Maybe print will make a comeback and make apps like this obsolete. There are better ways to EARN the money spent on GoodNovel than by swindling it away from your users.

First off GoodNovel has a lot of good books!! Problem is there is A Lot of bugs!!! I check in every day and was going good for a while but now it skips days doesn’t give me all of my points doesn’t check me in and when I read it doesn’t count Any of my minutes! The chapters are never the same as seen it over charge me a lot which I don’t like because I also pay to read. Which brings me to my next statement which is you have to pay a lot to read, and once again the more points you have the more it charges you per chapter. I have been waiting on an update to fix this and last times I’ve updated it tells me I’m going to get points (100 or so) but never get them! So 3 stars for good books and that’s it! I don’t usually leave reviews (ever) and I would have deleted GoodNovel a long time ago if I wasn’t hooked on the books. I will update my review if this ever gets resolved while I am on it but if it keeps up I will delete GoodNovel .

Translation and improved proofreading would make stories easier to read

The stories are awesome, but a bit pricey.. being a bookworm, i don't mind. I hope they make it less pricey though or maybe look into monthly subscriptions instead

I’m extremely disappointed. I actually purchased coins and they disappeared by the next time I needed to spend them. So either it’s spending them without telling you or they just disappeared. Either way, it’s a poor way to cheat people of their money. I’m one who dies spend money on my app entertainment but won’t waste my money on this one again obvioyslt

As I am using it for only two days I only received 15 coins and cannot even unlock any chapters after using those coins to unlock one chapter. 😒 given there were a few free chapters but after that now what? I can’t even earn any coins and th only real options is to purchase like wth!

It’s hard to find the good stuff I like to read here. The other problem is that that it’s hard to get enough coins to actually read anything without having to actually buy them

The novel is decent, and the translation isn’t too bad. It is incredibly expensive, though. And, mainly, the novel just stops. The story is unfinished. Never would have started if I had known that.

I love it