I devoured Blood Over Bright Haven. I feel the need to reread it now. Anyway, since Wolfskin impacted you so heavily, I've already ordered it. Tainted Cup will be going on my reading list, also. Thank yiu.
Nice, just finishing up 5th book in sun eater series 4th one was very dark, this one both happy and very sad, we see how Hadrians journey into abyss happens its taken me 3wks to get through it, because I hate sad scenes and it has some terrible ones, will finish the book today, I think..excellent series, if I was the editor I would shorten many parts of the series so far, but I guess it goes into world building..
I read The Tainted Cup and A House with Good Bones last year. I'd rank them pretty high. Very high, in fact.…But, really, I can't recall what I've read a week ago much less a year ago. 200 books? 300? No idea.…I see a big overlap in our reading but also a huge gap. I think you lean more toward epic fantasy, which I lost interest in maybe 40 years ago. And romance, which I've never liked and can rarely tolerate. Those differences are what make discussions fun, totally sympatico one moment and open mouthed perplexity the next (you like what?).…Interesting selection you're choosing from.
I've been a fan of the Valdemar books for a very long time now. It's nice to see them get the occasional mention. Best books in 2024 for me (sorry, I read over 350 books; this is the short list): Suspense The Rock Hole (Red River Mysteries #1), Reavis Z. Wortham First Frost (Walt Longmire #20), Craig Johnson Stone Cross (Arliss Cutter #2), Marc Cameron Fantasy The Wizard's Butler, Nathan Lowell Exile's Honor, Mercedes Lackey College Arcane (Demon Accords #8), John Conroe (I didn't remove this because book 18 sucked, but I thought about it) A group award for the Penric & Desdemona novellas, by Lois McMaster Bujold, which are all very good to excellent. SF The Iron Prince (Warformed: Stormweaver #1), Bryce O'Conner A Call to Arms (Manticore Ascendant #2), David Weber & Timothy Zahn What Price Victory (Worlds of Honor anthology series #7), David Weber, et al. Vanguard (Codename: Freedom #4), Apollos Thorne And a special award for the first 4 Murderbot novellas treated as a group. The first three are individually rather weak, but the fourth novella completes a story arc that is just excellent and together they tell a complete story that is very affecting. Sports LitRPG (really) Player Manager (Player Manager #1), Ted Steel Aside: If you're looking to do a top-N list, you might want to check out the Pub Meeple Ranking Engine, which does pairwise comparisons and gives you an ordered list at the end. Most people who use it feel the need to tweak the results a bit, but it's a pretty good place to start if you have enough things that it's hard to do a ranking.
I devoured Blood Over Bright Haven. I feel the need to reread it now. Anyway, since Wolfskin impacted you so heavily, I've already ordered it. Tainted Cup will be going on my reading list, also. Thank yiu.
I hope my recommendation doesn't let you down! It has a slow start typical of Juliet Marillier but it helps build up al the later tension. :)
Nice, just finishing up 5th book in sun eater series 4th one was very dark, this one both happy and very sad, we see how Hadrians journey into abyss happens its taken me 3wks to get through it, because I hate sad scenes and it has some terrible ones, will finish the book today, I think..excellent series, if I was the editor I would shorten many parts of the series so far, but I guess it goes into world building..
Loved Wolfskin. Love love love Juliet Marrillier!! I need to read The Rook and the Rose trilogy. It sounds so good!
@@rebecca.reader that makes my heart so happy to hear!!
Ooh I really hope you check out Rook & Rose!
Nice one!
@@MrMarcos635 thanks!
I read The Tainted Cup and A House with Good Bones last year. I'd rank them pretty high. Very high, in fact.…But, really, I can't recall what I've read a week ago much less a year ago. 200 books? 300? No idea.…I see a big overlap in our reading but also a huge gap. I think you lean more toward epic fantasy, which I lost interest in maybe 40 years ago. And romance, which I've never liked and can rarely tolerate. Those differences are what make discussions fun, totally sympatico one moment and open mouthed perplexity the next (you like what?).…Interesting selection you're choosing from.
The tainted cup is going on the to-read list.
Yay I hope you enjoy! And the next one comes out relatively soon.
I've been a fan of the Valdemar books for a very long time now. It's nice to see them get the occasional mention.
Best books in 2024 for me (sorry, I read over 350 books; this is the short list):
Suspense
The Rock Hole (Red River Mysteries #1), Reavis Z. Wortham
First Frost (Walt Longmire #20), Craig Johnson
Stone Cross (Arliss Cutter #2), Marc Cameron
Fantasy
The Wizard's Butler, Nathan Lowell
Exile's Honor, Mercedes Lackey
College Arcane (Demon Accords #8), John Conroe (I didn't remove this because book 18 sucked, but I thought about it)
A group award for the Penric & Desdemona novellas, by Lois McMaster Bujold, which are all very good to excellent.
SF
The Iron Prince (Warformed: Stormweaver #1), Bryce O'Conner
A Call to Arms (Manticore Ascendant #2), David Weber & Timothy Zahn
What Price Victory (Worlds of Honor anthology series #7), David Weber, et al.
Vanguard (Codename: Freedom #4), Apollos Thorne
And a special award for the first 4 Murderbot novellas treated as a group. The first three are individually rather weak, but the fourth novella completes a story arc that is just excellent and together they tell a complete story that is very affecting.
Sports LitRPG (really)
Player Manager (Player Manager #1), Ted Steel
Aside: If you're looking to do a top-N list, you might want to check out the Pub Meeple Ranking Engine, which does pairwise comparisons and gives you an ordered list at the end. Most people who use it feel the need to tweak the results a bit, but it's a pretty good place to start if you have enough things that it's hard to do a ranking.
@@dougsundseth6904 oooh that's a lot of books! Most I haven't heard of but I do have the penric books on my tbr for this year...