Our Scoring System

 

Your books will be rated with a possible top score of up to 5 glasses of champagne.

Our reviewers have a checklist to help them decide your score based on plot, characterization, and how well the book is written.

To help authors/publishers understand our scores, please see part of the Cocktail Review Guidelines below:

All reviews are based on the reviewers opinion.

1 champagne flute—You would not buy the book. This could be: a boring read, badly edited, poorly written, thin plot, terrible dialogue, poorly drawn characters.

2 champagne flutes—Not wonderful. Same as 1 flute but readable. Despite the book possessing, in your opinion, all of flute 1’s points, this score would maybe indicate that something in the book was to your liking.

3 champagne flutes—Not good and not bad. Okay. Passable. Enjoyable to some degree. You were able to read this book without it losing your interest. You wouldn’t be upset if you had paid for this book.

4 champagne flutes—Glad you reviewed the book. Would buy it/recommend to someone else. You liked the characters/plot/dialogue. Good characters/plot/interest level/writing.

5 champagne flutes—You would be very glad if you had bought the book. Most definitely recommend it to someone else. You loved the characters/plot/dialogue. Superb/excellent/solid characters/plot/interest level/writing. You would look forward to reading more from this author.

The Whole Bottle of Champagne—These books far surpass 5 flutes of champagne. This is for exceptional works only.