Goodnovel Reviews 

I have been reading The Charismatic Charlie Wade by Lord Leaf on GoodNovel for more than two years. I am now stalled at Chapter 7,861, with no new chapters for more than three weeks.

For a long time, GoodNovel released approximately two chapters a day. However, many of these chapters were only about two pages long. Now, releases have become extremely irregular, and readers are left wondering whether the story will ever be completed.

GoodNovel promotes its reading system as allowing readers to read for free. However, this requires watching advertisements and accumulating points or coins to unlock chapters. I have invested a considerable amount of time watching these advertisements because I wanted to continue reading the story.

I have also noticed that the daily check-in rewards have changed. I have checked in every day without missing a day, yet I am now receiving only 15 points instead of the 20 points I previously received for maintaining my daily check-in.

I contacted GoodNovel twice by email, on September 13 and September 15, asking about the status of the novel. I received no response.

I also submitted feedback through GoodNovel’s own review system, explaining that chapters are extremely short and are not being released regularly.

One particularly confusing issue is that another reader reported being stalled at Chapter 7,876, while I am stalled at Chapter 7,861. This raises questions about whether readers are receiving different chapter access or whether the releases are inconsistent.

I have not purchased coins, but I have spent a great deal of time watching advertisements and earning points to read this story.

I understand that authors may need time to write. My concern is the lack of communication and transparency. Readers should be told whether a novel is still being written and whether additional chapters are actually expected.

If you are considering starting The Charismatic Charlie Wade, please be aware that you may invest a considerable amount of time in a story that could leave you waiting indefinitely for the next chapter.

I would appreciate a clear explanation from GoodNovel about what is happening with this novel.

I love this app! It's a great platform for discovering and enjoying novels. There are so many interesting stories to choose from, and it's easy to get hooked on a good read. Highly recommend it to anyone who loves reading!

Paid £4.95 for 500 coins which should have seen me finish a book - those coins were used up in about 3 chapters. I wrote to the company to complain - sending four emails - not one reply. Don’t download this app - it’s terrible and will bleed you dry!

The problem is some stories catch you and you start reading. CHAPTERS are nothing more than a paragraph and you pay in coins to read each one which cost £$. Some are quick reads but most “authors” and I use the term loosely drag out stories and plots to gain more and money at the cost of readers. NO real author would do such a thing, they would be grateful to publish on a platform to get their name known etc. one off cost would be fine, or even a few smaller ones that maybe run to £25 mark for a book ( which is still really expensive) but IT IS HUNDREDS OF £££!!!! ROSA KANE probably one of the worst “authors” for doing this. Avoid !!! Avoid !!! Go by a book or download by genuine authors!!!

If you are willing to spend ~$50 on a poorly written romance thriller, then use this app! It literally bleeds you dry with its coin system.

Also, writer’s editor’s are not required to proofread a book (if the writer even has an editor). The app encourages writers to use Grammarly or similar methods to proof their writing. The final straw with this app was a book where it was obvious the author did not use grammarly, nor did she use a basic spellcheck. I spent way too much time rereading sentences that were garbled and made no sense.

Honestly, don’t download or use this app!

Title: What a Scam

I started with 2,200 coins, and I’m already on chapter 53 with barely 75 coins left. Chapters cost an average of 18 to 35 coins, depending on the number of pages, but not a single chapter so far has had more than 12 pages. Most of the time, there’s nothing on the last page, and other pages are flooded with ads that take up space. This is nothing but another scam.

And if you do the math quickly, using 30 coins per chapter for 53 chapters, that comes to 1,590 coins. So I’ve clearly had coins stolen from me…

And the most ridiculous part is that now I’m being offered the option to download the rest of the book for 8,500 coins, which I’m really not sure about, and it would cost me $90! I already paid $15 at the beginning for 2,000 coins, and now they expect me to pay another $90 to finish reading the book…

Are people really stupid enough to pay over $100 just to read a book?? This app is designed to rip people off!!!

Every page you read, NOT chapter, page, cost you coins! You can buy a subscription but that only comes with x amount of coins so you’ll have to purchase more coins if you want to continue reading..It’s absolutely ridiculous! After paying for a subscription, you should, at the very least, get to finish the book you’ve started!

I’m reading a book The breaking point of love. Ok to start because it had been out a while. Now caught up waiting for the author to continue. We get 2 pages for 3-4 days then nothing. We’ve had nothing since last week. Why are they printing books when they are not only not finished but don’t bother keeping up the story. The price you pay is £4.99 cheapest its an insult to be charged for this.

One of five stars is generous. I started reading a novel and wanted to finish it so I purchased a weekly subscription, only to realise later that I still needed to buy extra coins. It turns out the book is never ending so I’ve decided to stop now, rather than spend over $100 just on one novel. Considering you can get an audio book for £7.99. What this App charges seems like a rip off.

I paid $20 to read books on there last year. I’ve decided to make a review now because im still getting ads for it. The whole app is just booktokers writing books that are never ending and they romanticize SA and DV. The stories are always ridiculous and the characters are always CEO billionaires for some reason. It’s ridiculous and cringy. The books have more smut than deep plots🙄you have to pay a monthly subscription to keep reading the pages just for the books to be hot garbage smh.

Should have read reviews first! Started 5 chapters free so I subscribed so that I could carry on reading book only to find you still had to purchase chapters! Unsubscribed very quickly and will make sure that I dont get charged, very misleading and frustrating

Books are not free as advertised. You need to earn bonus points to finish a book. By earn, I mean purchase. I will never recommend this website to anyone.

The story is good but the price is much too expensive for a novel. I am on chapter 126 with no end in sight.

I would not recommend reading these stories, they are never ending and expensive

Literally bribes readers with coins for a 5-star review (or you do not get the coins), so honestly I would not believe a single 5-star you read. Too costly.

Good app i like it

The story was decent but you have to spend coins for every chapter and the chapters are very short. I read quickly and finished of my $30 worth of 2000 coins in a few hours. I didn't even finish the story. I just deleted the app. Even the subscription for 19.99/wk limits your coins and then you have to top up if you want to continue reading. I switched to "bestnovel". The writing isn't as good, but a subscription means unlimited reading for 9.99/wk. Goodnovel is a total scam.

Haven’t spent any money, however, the paragraphs are very short, ads when there shouldn’t be any ads, repetitive paragraphs just different characters and no end to the book after 275 chapters. Terrible app!!!
Update, still no end to the book after 300 chapters. If there is no end to the book when or why would a person read another book from this app?!

This Good Novel are rogues. People can spend over $100 to read a book and still not be assured they will get to the end. I wouldn't even give 1 star but had to yo leave review. This app has to be the greediest, money stealing app. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT Get sucked in by this app. Look elsewhere. The book I started to read I got up to chapter 1177 and ive waited 2 weeks now to read another chapter. They break the chapter down into the smallest amount of lines so they can drag it out and charge more. So wrong. Dont bother with it. I found out the book ive been reading was written by someone else and not the person they say. So its straight plagiarism.

I started reading a story on Facebook. It allowed me to read 8 chapters, then routed me to download the reading app which was Good Novel. After downloading the app, it required me to download a PDF file to begin reading again. When I did, my mobile phone was hacked with Malicious Malware and it changed everything on my mobile phone and overrode everything on my phone. It was presenting all types of ads advising me to pay $1.99 to unlock my phone, it was pretending the messages came from Google who was monitoring my account. The messages harassed my phone for an entire twenty 24 hours. I couldn't use my phone, the fraudulent messages would override and block anything I tried to do on my phone to get me to agree to pay the fee of $1.99 so it could get my credit card account number and CVV number that the technician from the Best Buy Geek Squad, who helped said would be sold on the dark web. and I would have had overwhelming charges to my account. Do not use apps like this that require fraudulent ads to attach to your device. I am happy to get out of this malware scam and want to warn others DO NOT USE THIS APP!

I enjoyed reading the novel but I refuse to spend any more money. I’ve paid over $100. Im disappointed! No ending to the story. This is a scam as well as fraudulent.