User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The House of Hades Official Discussion/@comment-4787531-20131014124940/@comment-5593616-20131014173742

A four out of five stars is really good. And although their are some people that give it a four/five just because its part of their favourite series, the majority of people base their rating on the quality of the book. For example, I gave SoN and HoH four stars, because I believe the quality of writing was reasonably good. However, I gave MoA three stars, and TLH two stars, because for MoA I felt like the writing was lacking emotion, apart from the last couple of chapters, and for TLH, I didn't really like how everyone was introduced. You can't say that if a book receives mostly 4/5 stars by fans its because "they're die-hard fans." The rating depends on the person.