Depends on the genre … this weekend I spent some time hiding from the heat, and powered my way through two short books rated at 4.2 or just above.
They were both plotless wish fulfillment, with a huge number of plot holes, loose ends dangling all over the place, character development that didn’t make sense, and so on. Each had maybe one thing written well, which kept me going to the end, but I really did waste my time.
That’s a perfectly reasonable score.
After all anything >4.7 is great 4.6-4.2 is good, 4.1-3.6 is decent and <3.5 unreadably terrible.
Depends on the genre … this weekend I spent some time hiding from the heat, and powered my way through two short books rated at 4.2 or just above.
They were both plotless wish fulfillment, with a huge number of plot holes, loose ends dangling all over the place, character development that didn’t make sense, and so on. Each had maybe one thing written well, which kept me going to the end, but I really did waste my time.