Mine is as follows:
1. Awful. Boring. Almost gave it up, or totally DNF’d.
2. Bad. Shallow, slow, mediocre, had sparse enjoyable moments but was overall a waste of time.
3. Okay. A little boring at times, and perhaps a bit shallow, but was relatively enjoyable. Maybe I struggled to finish it, and I wasn’t especially immersed. It’s just missing a little something something.
4. Very good. Enjoyable read, impactful, generally just a good book. This is what I rate most books, it’s not missing too much but it also doesn’t go above and beyond anywhere.
5. Exceptional. A 5 star has three definitions for me: It was so immersive I actually couldn’t stop reading it and it consumed me; It affected me so strongly emotionally that I feel fundamentally changed by reading it; I felt hollow after finishing it and continue to think about it for several days or weeks after.
What about you guys?
by Sausage_fingies