User blog comment:UltimateTORINOR/Story Reviews/@comment-1874924-20100703205706

Spenny once suggested that I look to become a reviewer. I may yet, but I have been ambivalent about it for the same reasons as Sprink. Besides, my available reading time is somewhat limited.

On the question of overall review vs. chapter-by-chapter, overall (perhaps with a few examples/excerpts) is probably best in most cases. With competition stories in particular, your reviews will probably be too long if you try to do chapter-by-chapter in any detail, unless you're willing to limit your review to one or two chapters. (Some newsletter reviews have done just that.)

Chapter-by-chapter might work for some of the shorter chaptered noncomps, but there aren't many of those, and you have to be careful that you don't reveal spoilers.