Can a review be too long or descriptive?

Lol it better be, I'm setting up all this hype and I know that I would be pissed if it sucked. It's not going to be the most amazing review ever, I just want a review to be proud of for my 20th

I agree with all this advice. I've seen MANY reviews that were so long and wordy, I missed pertinent information because of it. In fact, if I've ever commented on one of your reviews and you thought I missed something in the body, it's too damned long. We don't all have tons of time to dedicated to reading reviews and we won't all read multiple reviews, either. This is not the right place to write a novel.

That is all.

I couldn't have said it better myself!

This is an excellent point. Some of my reviews are more detailed than others and sometimes I feel bad if I write a review that isn't as detailed - but oftentimes the product isn't that good or it simply isn't something that lends itself well to details. I need to remember that and that it's ok to have different styles!

Honestly when I first started writing it, I had it imagined in my head it was going to be 2 times longer. But after some help I broke things up and realized, I don't need to make it that long. It would have honestly been too much to read and most likely me repeating everything from the previous section over and over and over but different wording. I think what motivated me on this review was, having the first one for this product, but mostly providing lots of info for people. When I spent days looking for info and found very little, I was really disappointed. Figured other people will want to know information about this stuff too!

I can agree that certain aspects of the product can be way over described like the example you just provided. Especially on parts that the product page clearly shows and already covers.

I answered, 'just depends (Yes and No)'. I was torn between 'A review can be too long/descriptive!' and my selection. I think good judgement needs to be applied, because you need to hold the reader's attention. If it is too much detail, they could loose interest and not read the whole review to it conclusion. You personal 'experience' (which is at the end of the review) is always so much more important, in my view!

Thanks I've been reading a lot of the comments to this discussion and plenty of it makes sense. But I think people have it right as long as it holds onto the readers attention then it's generally nice.

But I know what you mean on some of the reviews being too informative and crammed together just so someone can try get EU ratings. For example---I don't need to read 5 different descriptions in one review on the smell of an aroma. 1 description and a comparison to something it smells like it plenty fine. Unless it is a complex scent, that has a lot of body and complexity to it, I can understand that. Like the Camu Camu scent for the Dona bath salts, I still can't get over that crazy weird scent. I may have gone a little overkill in that review about the aroma though, oh well haha.

I guess the same applies to sex toys, I don't need to read multiple descriptions in one review about the shaft of a toy, a simple measurement in width and length is generally enough. But to sit there and say, it's long and thin, its not think and not short, its round but not a perfect circle, it measures this much long and this much wide, it is straight not bent. Not only would something like that be boring, but overkill. Okay I'm rambling now so I am going to leave it at that ha!

Sometimes. It really depends on the product.

I don't think so since there is a word limit which keeps it from getting that way. But it depends on who is writing it I guess.

People are always going to want more than one opinion, if for no other reason than things don't feel the same to everyone.

I've seen the same product get from 1 - 5 stars, from 1-5 vrooms, from 1-5 bees. No ones opinion is the same. If only a single review were required...

There wouldn't be anything left for all y'all to be reviewing. For that matter, we could just do the factual write ups ourselves and skip reviews.

Reviews are opinion -- and personally I always encourage people to read more than just mine. After all, they may not like the same things I do.