*currently in the works of updating some of these ratings.
How I Rate Books as of 2018:
All of my books start at three stars ★★★☆☆.
This is different than most because people usually start a book at five stars ★★★★★ and trickle it down from there. I believe this doesn’t actually leave room for a book to grow from my expectations. This leads to some five stars being on the same level as other five stars that I actually ended up enjoying more. Starting at three stars ★★★☆☆ leaves me room to have more control on my ratings.
FIVE STARS
This was really stickin’ good
- The Ladies Janies #02: My Plain Jane
- The Diviners #01: The Diviners
- To Kill a Kingdom
- Wolf by Wolf #02: Blood for Blood
- Wolf by Wolf #01: Wolf by Wolf
- Outlander #01: Outlander
- The Conqueror’s Saga #01: And I Darken
- A Series of Unfortunate Events #01: The Bad Beginning
- Sky in the Deep
- Three Dark Crowns #.2: The Young Queens
- The Diviners #02: Lair of Dreams
- Nerve
- Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
- The Silver Linings Playbook
- The Diabolic #01: The Diabolic
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
- Graceling Realm #01: Graceling
- A Song of Ice and Fire #03: A Storm of Swords
- A Song of Ice and Fire #01: A Game of Thrones
- Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
- The Chronicles of Alice #001: Alice
- Stardust
- Throne of Glass #0.5: The Assassin and the Empire
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Red Queen #01: Red Queen
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
- Renegades #01: Renegades
- Gemma Doyle #03: The Sweet Far Thing
- Rise of the Empress #01: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
- Spirits and Thieves #02: Darkest Magic
- You #01: You
- The Books of Bayern #02: Enna Burning
- Traitor’s Trilogy #01: The Traitor’s Kiss
- My Lady Janies #01: My Lady Jane
- Lady Helen #01: The Dark Days Club
- The Falconer #01: The Falconer
- The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
- An Enchantment of Ravens
- Stalking Jack the Ripper #02: Hunting Prince Dracula
- Gemma Doyle #02: Rebel Angels
- Three Dark Crowns #02: One Dark Throne
- Three Dark Crowns #01: Three Dark Crowns
- Warcross #01: Warcross
- The Illuminae Files #02: Gemina
- One Of Us Is Lying
- Archie 2015 Volume #04
- Throne of Glass #06: Tower of Dawn
- Royal Bastards #01: Royal Bastards
- Archie 2015 Volume #03
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 06
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 05
- Stormheart #01: Roar
- Strange the Dreamer #01: Strange the Dreamer
- The Illuminae Files #01: Illuminae
- Wolverine, Volume III, 13: Wolverine: Old Man Logan
- Monsters of Verity #02: Our Dark Duet
- The Walking Dead, Volume #17: Something to Fear
- The Dark Artifices #02: Lord of Shadows
- Archie 2015 Volume #02
- Stalking Jack the Ripper #01: Stalking Jack the Ripper
- Falling Kingdoms #04: Frozen Tides
- Spirits and Thieves #01: A Book of Spirits and Thieves
- Harry Potter #01: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- The Walking Dead Volume #16: A Larger World
- It Happens All The Time
- A Court of Thorns & Roses #03: A Court of Wings & Ruin
- Falling Kingdoms #03: Gathering Darkness
- Monsters of Verity #01: This Savage Song
- Old Man Logan, Volume 03: The Last Ronin
- Women of the Otherworld #10: Frostbitten
- Old Man Logan, Volume 02: Bordertown
- Saga Volume #06
- The Lunar Chronicles #04: Winter
- Thirteen Reasons Why
- The Hate U Give
- Saga Volume #05
- Norse Mythology
- The Crown’s Game #01: The Crown’s Game
- Big Little Lies
- Wolf by Wolf, #01.6: Storm After Storm
- Falling Kingdoms #02: Rebel Springs
- The Star-Touched Queen, #02: A Crown of Wishes
- Shades of Magic, #03: A Conjuring of Light
- Saga Volume #04
- Old Man Logan, Volume 01: Berzerker
- The Lunar Chronicles #03: Cress
- The Hating Game
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 03
- Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men Volume #04: Unstoppable
- Saga Volume #02
- Casey Duncan #02: A Darkness Absolute
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 02
- Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men Volume #02: Dangerous
- Shades of Magic #02: A Gathering of Shadows
- Saga Volume #01
- The Tooth Book
- Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
- Cat in the Hat
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre #01: The Two Princesses of Bamarre
- The Lunar Chronicles #02: Scarlet
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Classics, Volume #01
- Buffy Classics #05: Slayer, Interrupted
- Buffy Classics #03: Viva Las Buffy
- The Walking Dead Volume #11: Fear The Hunters
- Shades of Magic #01: A Darker Shade of Magic
- Heartless
- The Walking Dead Volume #08: Made to Suffer
- The Walking Dead Volume #06: This Sorrowful Life
- Ella Enchanted
- The Lunar Chronicles #01: Cinder
- Wolf by Wolf #01.5: Iron to Iron
- The Grisha Verse #1.5: The Tailor
- The Grisha Verse #2.5: The Too-Clever Fox
- The Grisha Verse #0.1: The Demon in the Wood
- The Grisha Verse #0.5: The Witch of Duva
- The Grisha Verse #2.6: Little Knife
- The Grisha Trilogy #03: Ruin and Rising
- An Ember in the Ashes #02: A Torch Against the Night
- The Grisha Trilogy #02: Siege and Storm
- The Grisha Trilogy #01: Shadow and Bone
- Throne of Glass #0.1-#0.5: The Assassin’s Blade
- An Ember in the Ashes #01: An Ember in the Ashes
- Six of Crows #02: Crooked Kingdom
- Six of Crows #01: Six of Crows
- Throne of Glass #05: Empire of Storms
- Throne of Glass #04: Queen of Shadows
- The Walking Dead Volume #01: Days Gone Bye
- Throne of Glass #03: Heir of Fire
- A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids
- Casey Duncan #01: City of the Lost
- Throne of Glass #02: Crown of Midnight
- Women of the Otherworld #07: No Humans Involved
- Throne of Glass #01: Throne of Glass
- A Court of Thorns & Roses #02: A Court of Mist & Fury
- Gemma Doyle #01: A Great and Terrible Beauty
- A Court of Thorns & Roses #01: A Court of Thorns & Roses
- Ready Player One
- The Infernal Devices #03: Clockwork Princess
- The Infernal Devices #02: Clockwork Prince
- The Dark Artifices #01: Lady Midnight
- The Infernal Devices #01: Clockwork Angel
- A Monster Calls
- Women of the Otherworld #02: Stolen
- Women of the Otherworld #01: Bitten
- The Books of Bayern #01: The Goose Girl
- The Inheritance Cycle #01: Eragon
FOUR STARS
I could get on board with this
- The Star-Touched Queen #2.5: Star-Touched Stories
- The Female of the Species
- When Dimple Met Rishi
- Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
- Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #01: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
- Ruined #01: Ruined
- Frankenstein
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone #02: Days of Blood and Starlight
- You #02: Hidden Bodies
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
- Lineage of Grace #04: Unspoken
- Lineage of Grace #03: Unshaken
- Lineage of Grace #02: Unashamed
- Lineage of Grace #01: Unveild
- Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #01: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Animal Farm
- A Song of Ice and Fire #05: A Dance with Dragons
- A Song of Ice and Fire #04: A Feast For Crows
- A Song of Ice and Fire #02: A Clash of Kings
- Lord of the Flies
- Cormoran Strike #03: Career of Evil
- Throne of Glass #0.4: The Assassin and the Underworld
- Grimm Fairy Tales #052: King Thrushbeard
- Grimm Fairy Tales #047: The Juniper Tree
- Throne of Glass #0.2: The Assassin and the Healer
- Grimm Fairy Tales #040: The Robber Bridegroom
- Grimm Fairy Tales #031: The Girl Without Hands
- Throne of Glass #0.1: The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
- Fiction Writing Master Class: Emulating the Work of Great Novelists to Master the Fundamentals of Craft
- Pride and Prejudice
- Casey Duncan #03: This Fallen Prey
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone #01: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Skin & Earth Vol. 03.
- Carmilla
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 09, Volume 02
- Paper Girls Vol. 01
- Chew Vol. 01: Taster’s Choice
- Lumberjanes Vol. 01: Beware the Kitten Holy
- Fallen Isles Trilogy #01: Before She Ignites
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 09, Volume 01
- DC Icons #01: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
- The Walking Dead #18: What Comes After
- Jessica Jones, Vol. 1: Uncaged!
- Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
- Archie 2015 Volume #01: The New Riverdale
- Flame in the Mist #01: Flame in the Mist
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre #0.5: The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre
- The Walking Dead Compendium #02
- Wires and Nerve Vol. 01: Wires and Nerve
- Under Rose-Tainted Skies
- The Walking Dead Volume #14: No Way Out
- Falling Kingdoms #01: Falling Kingdoms
- Saga Volume #03
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 04
- Buffy Classics #08: MacGuffins
- The Mortal Instruments #03: City of Glass
- The Mortal Instruments #02: City of Ashes
- Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men Volume #03: Torn
- Monstress Volume #01: Awakening
- Hop On Pop
- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
- Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- The Star-Touched Queen #01: The Star-Touched Queen
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 01
- Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men Volume #01: Gifted
- The Winner’s Trilogy #03: The Winner’s Kiss
- The Winner’s Trilogy #0.5: Bridge of Snow
- The Walking Dead Volume #13: Too Far Gone
- Buffy Classics #02: The Origin
- Buffy Classics #01: All’s Fair
- The Walking Dead Volume #09: Here We Remain
- The Walking Dead Compendium #01
- The Winner’s Trilogy #02: The Winner’s Crime
- The Winner’s Trilogy #01: The Winner’s Curse
- Firebird #01: A Thousand Pieces of You
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians #01: The Lightning Thief
- The Walking Dead Volume #03: Safety Behind Bars
- The Walking Dead Volume #02: Miles Behind Us
- The Night Circus
- Women of the Otherworld #05: Haunted
- Women of the Otherworld #04: Industrial Magic
- Women of the Otherworld #03: Dime Store Magic
- The Bane Chronicles #10: The Course of True Love
- The Bane Chronicles #09: The Last Stand of the New York Institute
- The Bane Chronicles #07: The Fall of Hotel Dumort
- The Bane Chronicles #06: Saving Raphael Santiago
- The Mortal Instruments #01: City of Bones
- The Princess Tales #06: The Fairy’s Return
- Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Princess Tales #05: For Biddle’s Sake
- The Princess Tales #04: Cinderellis and the Glass Hill
- The Princess Tales #02: The Princess Test
- The Princess Tales #01: The Fairy’s Mistake
THREE STARS
Possibly needed more head-chopping or something
- Moldara #01: Secrets of Moldara
- Brooklyn Brujas, #02: Bruja Born
- My Name Is Victoria
- Falling Kingdoms #06: Immortal Reign
- Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #02: The Lost Herondale
- Down in the Belly of the Whale
- DC Icons #02: Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
- Everless #01: Everless
- Mark Twain
- How to Say Goodbye in Robot
- The Folk of the Air #01: The Cruel Prince
- Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets
- Divergent #01: Divergent
- Lineage of Grace #05: Unafraid
- Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #02: Hollow City
- Me Before You #01: Me Before You
- The Raven Boys #02: The Dream Thieves
- The Glass Spare #01: The Glass Spare
- The Sin Eater’s Daughter #01: The Sin Eater’s Daughter
- The Jungle Books
- The Gingerbread Girl
- The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
- The Chronicles of Alice #002: Red Queen
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Grimm Fairy Tales #064: The Golden Goose
- Cormoran Strike #02: The Silkworm
- Cormoran Strike #01: The Cuckoo’s Calling
- If I Stay #01: If I Stay
- Throne of Glass #0.3: The Assassin and the Desert
- Grimm Fairy Tales #048: Old Sultan
- Grimm Fairy Tales #046: Fowler’s Fowl
- Grimm Fairy Tales #037: Thumbling
- Grimm Fairy Tales #029: The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs
- Grimm Fairy Tales #028: The Singing Bone
- Grimm Fairy Tales #027: The Bremen Town-Musicians
- Grimm Fairy Tales #026: Little Red Cap
- Grimm Fairy Tales #022: The Riddle
- Grimm Fairy Tales #021: Cinderella
- Grimm Fairy Tales #019: The Fisherman & His Wife
- Grimm Fairy Tales #015: Hansel & Gretel
- Grimm Fairy Tales #014: The Three Spinners
- Grimm Fairy Tales #013: The Three Little Men in the Wood
- Grimm Fairy Tales #012: Rapunzel
- Grimm Fairy Tales #011: Little Brother and Little Sister
- Grimm Fairy Tales #009: The Twelve Brothers
- The Impostor Queen #01: The Impostor Queen
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- Keeper #01: Keeper
- Clash of Kingdoms #01: Ever the Hunted
- Because You Love To Hate Me
- Long May She Reign
- Chew Vol. 03: Just Dessert
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 09, Volume 03
- Skin & Earth Vol. 02
- Skin & Earth Vol. 01
- Want #01: Want
- Giant Days: Vol. 01
- Lady Helen #02: The Dark Days Pact
- Chew Vol. 02: International Flavor
- The Falconer #02: The Vanishing Throne
- Lumberjanes Vol. 02: Friendship to the Max
- The Raven Boys #01: The Raven Boys
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- The Crown’s Game #02: The Crown’s Fate
- Alex and Eliza
- Women of the Otherworld #11: Waking the Witch
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 08
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 08, Volume 07
- These Vicious Masks #01: These Vicious Masks
- Guide #01: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
- Hunted
- Daughter of the Pirate King #01: Daughter of the Pirate King
- Road to Riverdale Vol. 01
- IT: A Novel
- Saga Volume #07
- The Walking Dead Volume #15: We Find Ourselves
- Everything, Everything
- Empress of a Thousand Skies #01: Empress of a Thousand Skies
- Kanin Chronicles #01: Frostfire
- Legend #01: Legend
- Women of the Otherworld #08: Personal Demon
- The Siren
- Frostblood Saga #01: Frostblood
- Caraval #01: Caraval
- Marvel’s All-New X-Men, Vol. 02: Here to Stay
- Marvel’s All-New X-Men, Vol. 01: Yesterday’s X-Men
- Marvel’s The X-Men Masterworks: Volume #01
- The Wicked + The Divine Volume 02: Fandemonium
- The Mortal Instruments #04: City of Fallen Angels
- The Wicked + The Divine Volume 01: The Faust Act
- Buffy Classics #09: Queen of Hearts
- The Selection #03: The One
- The Selection #02: The Elite
- Old Man Logan, Volume 00: Warzones!
- Buffy Classics #07: A Stake to the Heart
- The Walking Dead Volume #12: Life Among Them
- Buffy Classics #04: Dawn and Hoopy the Bear
- The Walking Dead Volume #10: What We Become
- The Walking Dead Volume #07: The Calm Before
- The Walking Dead Volume #05: The Heart’s Desire
- The Selection #01: The Selection
- Brooklyn Brujas, #01: Labyrinth Lost
- Women of the Otherworld #06: Broken
- The Bane Chronicles: Novellas #01 – #11
- The Bane Chronicles #03: Vampires, Scones, & Edmund Herondale
- Pretty Little Liars #03: Perfect
- Pretty Little Liars #02: Flawless
- Pretty Little Liars #01: Pretty Little Liars
- The Princess Tales #03: Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep
TWO STARS
That’s it?
- Divergent #02: Insurgent
- The 5th Wave #01: The 5th Wave
- The Assassin Game
- Say What You Will
- The Last Magician
- Ask The Passengers
- Dying to Be Young: A Cosmetic Nightmare, a Spiritual Awakening
- Dark Gifts #001: Gilded Cage
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Gone Girl
- Grimm Fairy Tales #053: Snow White
- Grimm Fairy Tales #050: Briar Rose
- Grimm Fairy Tales #044: Godfather Death
- Grimm Fairy Tales #042: Godfather
- Grimm Fairy Tales #036: The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack
- Grimm Fairy Tales #035: The Tailor in Heaven
- Grimm Fairy Tales #033: The Three Languages
- Grimm Fairy Tales #032: Clever Hans
- Grimm Fairy Tales #025: The Seven Ravens
- Grimm Fairy Tales #024: Mother Holle
- Grimm Fairy Tales #023: The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage
- Grimm Fairy Tales #020: The Valiant Little Tailor
- Grimm Fairy Tales #016: The Three Snake-Leaves
- Grimm Fairy Tales #006: Faithful John
- Grimm Fairy Tales #005: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
- Grimm Fairy Tales #004: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
- Grimm Fairy Tales #003: Our Lady’s Child
- Unnatural Deeds
- Red Queen #.01/.02: Cruel Crown
- Red Queen #02: Glass Sword
- The Falconer #03: The Fallen Kingdom
- The Waking Lands #01: The Waking Lands
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
- The Hundredth Queen #02: The Fire Queen
- The Hundredth Queen #01: The Hundredth Queen
- A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 4
- A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 3
- A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2
- Plagued #01: Plagued: The Midamerica Zombie Half-Breed Experiment
- Hibiscus Daughter #01: Wicked Like a Wildfire
- A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1
- The Dark Tower #01: The Gunslinger
- Monstress Volume #02: The Blood
- Old Man Logan, Volume 04: Monster War (Old Monsters)
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians (The Graphic Novels) Volume 01: The Lightning Thief
- Constellation #01: Defy the Stars
- S.K.I.E. #01: Project S.K.I.E.
- Marvel’s Astonishing X-Men Volume #05: Ghost Box
- Women of the Otherworld #09: Living with the Dead
- Talon, #02: Rogue
- Talon, #01: Talon
- Wintersong
- The Beast That Never Was
- Touched
- The Mortal Instruments #06: City of Heavenly Fire
- The Mortal Instruments #05: City of Lost Souls
- The Zombie Girl Saga #01: Zombie Girl
- Buffy Classics #06: Angels We Have Seen on High
- The Walking Dead Volume #04: The Heart’s Desire
- The Bane Chronicles #08: What to Buy the Shadowhunter…
- The Bane Chronicles #05: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
- The Bane Chronicles #04: The Midnight Heir
- The Bane Chronicles #02: The Runaway Queen
- The Bane Chronicles #01: What Really Happened in Peru
- Matched #01: Matched
- Grimm Fairy Tales #001: The Frog-King, or Iron Henry
ONE STAR
Okay, but why was this published?
- After the Woods
- Divergent #03: Allegiant
- No Place Called Home
- The Twisted and the Brave #01: Lost in Wonderland
- The Girl At The Bar
- Genuine Fraud
- Seven Black Diamonds #01: Seven Black Diamonds
- Millennium #01: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Wicked + The Divine Volume 04: Rising Action
- Grimm Fairy Tales #051: Foundling-Bird
- Grimm Fairy Tales #049: The Six Swans
- Grimm Fairy Tales #045: Thumbling’s Travels
- Grimm Fairy Tales #043: Frau Trude
- Grimm Fairy Tales #041: Herr Korbes
- Grimm Fairy Tales #039: The Elves
- Grimm Fairy Tales #038: The Wedding of Mrs. Fox
- Grimm Fairy Tales #034: Clever Elsie
- Grimm Fairy Tales #030: The Louse and the Flea
- Grimm Fairy Tales #018: The Straw, the Coal and the Bean
- Grimm Fairy Tales #017: The White Snake
- Grimm Fairy Tales #010: The Pack of Ragamuffins
- Grimm Fairy Tales #008: The Wonderful Musician
- Grimm Fairy Tales #007: The Good Bargain
- Grimm Fairy Tales #002: Cat and the Mouse in Partnership
- The Witchlands #01: Truthwitch
- Unnatural Deeds
- Mask of Shadows #01: Mask of Shadows
- Select #01: Select
- Carve the Mark #01: Carve the Mark
- Blood Rose Rebellion #01: Blood Rose Rebellion
- The Wicked + The Divine Volume 03: Commercial Suicide
- The Bone Witch #01: The Bone Witch
- The Bane Chronicles #11: The Voicemail of Magnus Bane
- Matched #03: Reached
- Matched #02: Crossed
NO STARS
Definitely probably didn’t finish this