5 stars - Amazing. Will think about a lot and possibly read multiple times. Would recommend to anyone.

4 stars - Enjoyed greatly. Would recommend to anyone who enjoys that genre of book.

3 stars - It was fine. Would only recommend to other people with caveats.

2 stars - Not good.

1 star - Let's never speak of this again.

Depends on what kind of books you like to read. What is a series you have read before that you really liked and wasn't too mentally challenging to read?

I think one of the things that makes my "comfort reads" comforting is that I have already read them before, so I already know I like them. But also they are long or a series, so I have forgotten some details that I get to rediscover. And it just blocks out a decent chunk of my future reading time so I stop trying to organize my line up of next books to read.

I have this problem sometimes when I read several books in succession that are fine, but not great. It feels like I just keep hoping the next book will be "the one." This was happening to me recently so what I did was paused reading new books and decided to re-read a comfort series (Harry Potter in this case). I already know I like it and it is long enough that I haven't had to think about what I will read next for a while. It feels kind of like a reset for my brain.