10 Star Rating System for Book Reviews

Why The Reviewers use a 10 star rating system for our book reviews

A lot of review sites appear to use a 5 star rating system but in our opinion this isn’t really good enough for book reviews and is why we use a 10 star system.

Let’s 1st look at a 5 star system and base it on;

1. – Poor
2. – OK
3. – Good
4. – Very Good
5. – Excellent

From what I have seen of book reviews an awful lot of people give 5 star ratings of books they have read so assume they think they are excellent.

The problem is, if I was to ask a number people who had given 10 plus 5 star ratings what their favourite book is they would probably name 1 or 2 out of that 10, so how do they distinguish the truly excellent book from the other excellent books?

With the 10 star rating system 9 stars is Excellent, which still allows 9.5 stars for the truly Excellent and 10 reserved for that really rare book you come across that you would consider in the top 2 or 3 of books you have ever read.

Let’s now look at a 10 star system and base it on;

1. – Very Poor
2. – Poor
3. – Mediocre
4. – OK
5. – Good
6. – Better thanGood
7. – Very Good
8. – Extremely Good
9. – Excellent
10. – Within the top 2 or 3 books you have ever read

Basically if you are used to a 5 star rating compare the below

The main reason for using a 10 star system is we feel that far too many 5 star ratings are given in book reviews and once people have given a 5 star rating where do they go from there when they read what they consider to be the greatest book they have ever read?

Note: we also allow half star ratings so if you read that truly excellent book but it’s not the greatest book you have ever read you can always give it a 9.5 rating.

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