you should be able to rely on the reviewer or where the review was published as some indication of quality and perspective.
Yes, but quality and perspective depend on the intelligence of the reviewer, not his/her familiarity with the genre.
Just because someone is not familiar with a particular genre doesn't mean that they lack perspective. They may lack one particular perspective, that of someone whose reading is more or less confined to that genre, but that doesn't mean that they have no perspective.
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Date: 2005-08-13 03:34 pm (UTC)Yes, but quality and perspective depend on the intelligence of the reviewer, not his/her familiarity with the genre.
Just because someone is not familiar with a particular genre doesn't mean that they lack perspective. They may lack one particular perspective, that of someone whose reading is more or less confined to that genre, but that doesn't mean that they have no perspective.