Book Ratings

One star - 

It was awful. I am appalled that I even forced myself through it, as it was wasted time that I could have been spending reading another book. Sometimes, books I put into this rating are so bad that they put me into a reading slump. Usually, books I put into this one star rating is simply because I could not give it a rating any lower and I don't even feel like it deserves the one star it had been given. Sometimes I can find good things to write about them here or there, but usually, this would bump them up to two stars. One star is the lowest possible rating, and therefore, I would think the lowest I can possibly think about that book. 

Two stars - 

Books rated two stars usually aren't terrible. They just weren't good. The book might have been hard to get through, or the characters major sucked. Something about this book was not good enough for me to give it any higher a rating. But sometimes, the book will be two stars simply because I didn't hate it. Books rated two stars are books I wouldn't recommend to a friend unless I thought this would be their sort of thing. Two stars means there was an awful lot missing from the book and it needed more, or I just didn't like it for whatever reason. 

Three stars - 

This is my halfway point. Where a book was not amazing, but it was not terrible. It's "meh". The characters were okay, the story was okay, everything was just okay and it had nothing it in that I thought was thought-provoking or something I would remember. Basically, the book just missed that spark. Books in this rating might even be without a chunk of what makes the story, for example if I was reading a romance novel but I was feeling friendship instead or I was reading a suspense novel and I was not on the edge of my seat. Books rated three stars I usually do enjoy, the book was just nothing special. 

Four stars - 

I am pretty impressed. It has good characters, storyline, maybe it presented something in a way that I thought was done pretty well (for example, the endless debate on what makes a badass female character badass), it had be hooked. Four stars does not mean it was perfect, though. What makes it a four star and not a five is that it was missing it's "WOW" factor. It had flaws, it wasn't something I would re-read if it wasn't part of a series. Four stars is the rating I will usually give books. 

Five stars -

It was flawless. I loved it. I loved the writing style, the characters, the story, the world, the morals, the way the plot blended together, an actual plot-twist ending that surprised me, or maybe it just gave me something or made me feel something rather then be flawless. These rated books are unforgettable to me, they're something I will own multiple copies of and have them displayed on my shelves, a five star means I loved it.