 Hey guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel. And for today's video, I want to talk about how I rate my books. So I have been on booktube for it's going to be five years. Well, not on booktube because I was a beauty guru first. But anyways, I've been making videos for five years, which is insane to me. So I started when I was a little young in. I still am young I guess, but you know what I mean? When I was a little young in, when I was a little preteen. I want to talk about how I rate books. I've never made a video like this surprisingly and I'm a book reviewer. So I should make this video, you know? Typically, I've always been a critical reader in my eyes. I see myself as a pretty critical reader. I think every genre kind of has its own scale. Like you can't compare a horror Stephen King to like a fluffy white contemporary. Like I could give a white contemporary four stars and like this horror King 3.5, but it's not the same 3.5 and four. Like because of the genre. Because of the genre mainly. I am not one of those people that just rates things based off of entertainment. That's some the pet peeve of mine. Like you do you you rate how you want, but at the same time I'm just like like I'm not going to put my trust in a reviewer that just that only it's okay if it's one factor but only gives reviews on entertainment value because books are so much more than entertainment. And there's things that certain factors in books that makes them more entertaining and better and like quality pieces of literature. Oh my god, I'm sounding so old. But basically things that I take into account when I'm reading books is like the pacing of the story, the writing style, how it flows, the plot, the character. If it's a fantasy or a sci-fi, it's about the world building, the backstory, the character backstory. Then there's obviously the entertainment components. So the entertainment components. So how entertaining it is, how quick you read it maybe because maybe it's super quick for you and you love it, you fly through it. That kind of thing and also like how many emotions it gives you. So if it makes you feel all the things it tends to be a higher rated book in my opinion but also it has to have the other stuff I mentioned. My running scale is from I do .25s. So I'm super weird. This is like the nerdiest video I've ever done. So I go from one to five stars and then I'm like 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75, 3, and then so on. Basically a one star read for me is like pure trash. Like I probably didn't finish it. I hated it with a passion. I probably didn't finish it again. I just probably gave up and was like this is a waste of my time. So that's usually a one star read for me. It's like bad but like I finished it and it was like bad but like there was something about it that made me finish it or that yeah the quality to it that was worth finishing maybe or maybe I was just too stubborn to DNF it. Then anything between a one and a two is like 1.25, 1.5. So anything kind of in between there is where I kind of put the 1.5 scales on. Three is just like an average book so it wasn't horrible but it wasn't fantastic in my opinion. Four is like I freaking loved it but it wasn't a favorite and this is where I differ from a lot of reviewers. Four stars for me is so good of rating that it's like the four star used to be like my five. Like I used to give only like three books five stars in a whole entire year which is because of how picky I am and how critical I can be. And it could get to a point where it's like unreasonable. It's like come on Julia like you can give a book five stars because I do read a lot of great books but it's like four stars was like the regular five for me and it still kind of is like if I give a book four stars it's so good but it's not like my all-time favorite but it might still be on my favorites list. It's very complicated. I only give books five stars when I like really feel the need to give it five stars and I usually reread a book and then give it five stars a second time if I'm gonna do that. So that's what I do. Basically that is how I rate my books if you've ever wondered or anything like that about that topic. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will see you all super soon. Let me know how you rate books in the comments down below. Just a disclaimer I'm not trying to be like cocky or arrogant or think my way of reviewing is the right way but it's just how I've done it for the past like four years and how I like doing it. But yes there's also a different scale that goes into poetry in my opinion. I think poetry and manga I kind of have a whole different scale like poetry. It's all about flow, the emotions, the writing obviously but sometimes poetry is so simplistic. It's about like if you feel something when you read it and if you can connect to it that's how I kind of rate poetry sometimes. And with manga it's all about like the art style, same with graphic novels, the art style, the story, the characters, the plot, the writing, the formatting, like stuff like that. So yeah I'll see you guys super soon with a new video. Bye!