BEST & WORST Books of 2024!

ashes of man which I think was another great entry into the overall series

this one was a good sequel It's the definition of just good

as a queer person myself I felt incredibly seen by this book in terms of the main character realization of their own sexuality as well

this is one where we really start to see a lot more of the potential of DCC get realized and some of that concern I had about oh is this actually going to manage to like continue to be fresh is addressed and the answer is yes

I don't understand that how is this so popular and so beloved it might be my least favorite book I read this year

The more I've sat on it the more I've been like yeah that was good but it is hyper textbook for lit RPG

demon and white third book bam going to go very high s tier I think I'm going to put it just below pratchet and above Grace of Kings the strongest book in the sun eater series hands down

dis quiet Gods is yet another Sun eater book and did just such an impressive job of setting up the series's conclusion

Dungeon Crawler Carl the first book is not the best in the series but is still possibly like the top of a it does an absolutely Splendid job of introducing people to LIT RPG and the world that is going to be continued to develop on and grow throughout the rest of the series

this one's going to be an easy low best tier it's not my favorite Sun eater book but I stand by everything I said in this review this series man it like really just touched me

I think he does have a bit of a structural issue happening with this series where it feels like the story should have grown beyond the setting it is staying in this sequel

I titled this video is it the best disc World Book for many people the answer that is yes for me that's still going postal

the pacing is a bit and the characterization can be kind of basic but the overall story and what happens here in he who fights Monsters is a great showcasing for the potential of lit RPG

howling dark is the sequel and I immediately liked it even more I believe than Empire of Silence

this one I thought was good I think I'm having a hard time remembering it damn it's been a minute it's not just Super Fresh in my head but I remember it being a fun Whimsical time

I found this to be a very clunky book with a ton of potential for better down the road

I respect it does great things for the overall story but keeping it spoiler free it is also so excessively dark and brutal that if we are going off of enjoyment which I think we've settled we are here I don't enjoy this book

I love not only the insights this prequel gave to inform Legends and lattes but how much more emotionally attached it made me feel to just this world as a whole

it still has a lot of those signature Sun eater wow moments and just lethal hooks that certainly can pull emotion from any reader but at the same time it's it's not main story Sun eater not by a long shot

I did in a lot of weird ways enjoy Midnight Sun

Night Watch is a masterpiece from Terry pratchet and maybe on certain days I would say it is my favorite

deny Taylor total Redemption really managed to make this yet another instance of Bob verse that is just as fun fresh escapism as the series promises

Susanna Clark has this intensely imaginative exploration through a mysterious Labyrinth and you can be told a lot about this book going into it and still be utterly surprised by the directions it goes in

this is going to be a solid s tier I have no shame putting it that high

this is a great book in terms of having a really delicate purpose to the actual narrative it is explicitly trying to say something that can register with all ages and at the same time has a very imaginative fascinating world

starter villain has the sense of humor that is the worst to come across in my opinion for writing which is just H isn't that wild that happened without anything clever or interesting or based in the story or informing of character-wise happening

in terms of quality s tier for sure in terms of enjoyment I'm going B and I'm being a little generous doing that

the butcher masquerade was also great

this one I still really like going to put of a tier and that's actually a problem I binged DCC like literally just in a row I did book and now I have a really hard time differentiating in my head

elfstone is still true to epic high fantasy while also being distinctly Terry Brooks's interpretation of it which the sword of Shena did not deliver on

the only one that I didn't love as much was the card mechanic introduced in the bride

I especially when it comes to the endings of series love to be able to have those long drawn out Memory of Light style Robert Jordan let's just sit in it Vibes and that was not delivered on in Fury of the Gods as much but it's still damn fun

gate of the feral Gods I think I even like that one more than the cookbook

Grace of Kings despite being such a macro scale story that is taking on multiple Wars and these changing of society still feels viscerally human

I'm going to put the Hobbit high up

this one is probably the best URS l G book I've read yet and I'm going to put it just below Grace of Kings here

I think it is aged pretty spectacularly poorly in terms of just a lot of the technical writing being very disappointing info dumps things along those lines that just feel almost intolerable in general and characterization that was blackluster

I still begrudge the first 10 to 15 chapters of this book a lot but something I have felt since reviewing this I really want to continue the story

I think it is super cozy absolutely a warm blanket has a lot of really good queer representation as well but gets sickly sweet very sickly sweet towards the end and the inability to deliver on conflict with any form of teeth or bites really just ends up hamstringing it

I was heavily criticizing sanderson's writing while enjoying the story overall