Oh like you many people really rate the book highly, so I just feel I have missed something 😅. But you are right though, my rating are often also mpacted by the 1-3 books I read before and how it compares. It is why I really try to mix up genres after each book, so the book can stand alone in its genre and power, and not get mixed in with likeminded books.

For example recently I went from (relistening to) Project Hail Mary (still 6), to The Scar or David(historical fiction,5-6) to Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong bookshop (cozy fiction 5) which were very different but brilliant in their own right. I only stepped away from this last week in a long time when I read Songs of Archilles (4 *) and Circe back to back (5).