Most of the books I read are professionally edited and the writing is good to fantastic. The issues I have with most books I read is the story and its appeal–or lack thereof.

Lack of appeal could be: characterization, plausibility issues, too much internal examining by either hero or heroine, or the dreaded, nothing is really going on.  But those are taste issues. What appeals to others may not necessarily appeal to me and vice versa. That’s why reviews are subjective.

But if pressed and I had to rate a book that was essentially well written and not to my tastes, I’m not ever going to give it 1 star. If you can write, you will garner at least 2 stars from me on a scale of 1 to 5. Of course, that’s just me. Everyone has their own criteria when it comes to rating books and I’d like to know yours. Specifically, I want to know what would make you give a book 1 star?