Sometimes the critics don't tell if it's good or bad, but what's in there. The story about Asimov and the critic explains that pretty well https://wiki.c2.com/?

Sometimes the critics don't tell if it's good or bad, but what's in there. The story about Asimov and the critic explains that pretty well https://wiki.c2.com/?AsimovAndTheCritic https://wiki.c2.com/?AsimovAndTheCritic TL;DR: "Just because you wrote it, what makes you think you know anything about it?"