As I've been browsing the (rather small, so far) collection of books added to my Goodreads shelves, something immediately jumps out: I've rated everything five stars. This is not standard practice, I'm aware (and I've read some truly blistering one star reviews on this site!), but I wanted to say a quick word on why it might become standard practice for me.

First of all, I've added a few of my favourite reads from recent months, simply so I can give them high ratings and show the world how much I love them. I'm hoping this will not only improve my recommendations from Goodreads (as if I needed to buy any more books...), but get a few more readers interested in them, too.

The second issue is more complicated. Having joined Goodreads primarily as a writer, not a reader, I don't feel it's my place to trash books on here, no matter how much I hate them. I'd be pretty depressed to see people doing that to my books, you see - and whilst I'm aware it goes with the territory of putting your work out there, it's not something I'm going to personally delve into.

So, most of my ratings here will be fairly high. That's not to say I won't occasionally write more in-depth critiques of books I had mixed feelings about (I feel lower ratings are more appropriate when a reader has really thought about what they didn't like, and why), or that I hated every book I didn't rate. Instead, this is just a brief explanation of why you'll see a lot of high ratings on my bookshelves, and not a lot else!