To the Best of Our Knowledge, a show from Wisconsin Public Radio, had a great program last Sunday on the influence reviewers from New York and Los Angeles have on national readers. They ask, “Do you ever get the feeling that everyone’s reading all the same books and listening to all the same music, and seeing all the same films?” They talk to a few good people who have opinions on that, mostly Wisconsin people oddly enough.
As far as I know, none of these reviewers have reviewed my books, so the answer to your question is, “Yes.”
No doubt, they noticed only that you live in Minnesota before rejecting your books–the snobs.