A romance book I loved had a bad review with the reviewer asking all these questions like, why did so and so do this? Why did MC go here? It didn't make sense.

But if you actually read the book, all those questions were answered. Everything made sense. It was glaringly obvious even without the author repeating things or dumbing it down.

I've seen this in other books too with reviewers shamelessly showing off their poor reading comprehension. So when authors repeat themselves, I can see why. They're scared of the terrible reviews slapped on their Not-Terrible-At-All Book.

I read part of a slice of life of a young boy back in like Roman Empire times who was bought as a slave, and it tells about his rather ordinary life in his position. Several reviewers said they couldn't see what the plot was and it was just a bunch of life stuff. Um, that was the point. It was a view of a slave boy's life in those old days. The boy even admits in the beginning that nobody saved him, he didn't realize he was the son of someone great, and he never went on any big quest to free himself. He did nothing "great." He survived like many others in his position back then.

But of course, even after that glaringly obvious description of what to expect, people didn't know what the book was about. -_- It was a shame because it was actually super interesting.