Tier Ranking the 45 New Releases I read in 2023 || Are these 2023 Books Worth Your Time?

This one, I want to put in fine, because I think it is very fine. But with the caveat that I think you should skip it. If you are like me and feel like you know, you're not really vibing with Samantha Shannon's writing, but objectively, it's fine.

That's great. Love that book. It's not a new favorite, but I had a great time reading. It's one of my favorite reading moments of the year.

I say skip it. I like the myth of Atlanta quite a bit. I think you can skip it even if you'd like Greek retellings, there are better versions out there and I just don't think she does a good enough job expanding on the short story.

This is also great. I love Emma long I love the sort of Dragon like this one doesn't emotionally hit me the way the sort of Dragon did. But I think it's a better version of sort of adjacent dark academia future fantasy for sure.

I think this is worth your time, especially if you like ledges and lattes, but it might not work out as well for you. It depends. Like for me I'm very rarely want cozy fantasy.

I think it's really worth your time to great until you get to like the last 200 pages and then it's like, it's just way too long to do falling action and climax in a book especially a Cassandra Clare book. And that's why it's only fine for me is the last 200 pages, I was having a great time, up to that point, but I'm an endings person.

I think this one is fine. It might be even worth your time, especially if like part of the Iliad has escaped your brain and you're not close to it, I think. I was having a good time.

I think this is also worth your time. Especially if you've been liking the cozy fantasy realm if you like, kind of a different type of mixed media Jason sort of thing. I think it's great for winter.

the faithless is a new fav. I love seal Clark series. I cannot wait for the third book.

Fourth wing, I want to say is great, it's great for me, obviously caveats. For me brain candy, super fun.

hell bent for me has a great or new fav unsure we'll put it in great, but I had a lot of fun with it. For me this was like I deal we're getting into Buffy territory. So for me, it was great. I love it.

also, I think worth your time, I think fun, contemporary fantasy. I enjoyed it. That's all I have is like, I enjoyed that one.

I'm gonna put this one on worth your time because like most people just didn't hit as well for me as fourth wing. But I will say that if you like fourth wing iron flame is still worth your time. It is too long.

Labyrinths heart, new fave. I mean, it's the ending of one of my favorite series of all time, what can I say read the book the Rook and the Rose, I have a you read for that. You should read it.

Last tale of the flower bride I think it's great. Yeah, I think I like that book more than I expected. I think part of what holds it back is it's a two person perspective story and one of the perspectives is just so aggressively boring for me that I just I don't know had an issue with that.

That's also probably tail end of new fave. That's one of my favorite books in the Red Rising series. That book had emotional highs and lows.

lone woman also a new fav I talked about this book a lot. It's just such a good blend of dark fantasy and horror in the medic exploration and character development and I love books set in like homesteading settings.

love, theoretically also, new fave. But again, if you don't like Ali Hazelwood, you're not going to suddenly like Alec Hazelwood if you read this book. I do think for me, this is my favorite of her books.

Mimicking of known successes also great. I'm excited for the audio book to come out for its sequel because I really like listened to the audiobook. I think this is like my perfect version of like detective murder mystery ish Ness.

New suns, also a new fav. I love the short story anthology. I keep raving about it. So good.

our share of night we're also gonna say it's a new face. I think about this book too much for it not to be new fav. I love our share of night. It's great.

I think it's worth your time. For me. It wasn't as solid dividend theology as say, like new suns. I had more misses than hits. I think it's a well curated collection though.

Starling house is fine. It's fine book. I have no complaints but it also does not live in my head. It's okay.

The other Greek myth I read this year was stone blind. I think you can skip it. I don't I don't like it that much. I don't think it does enough different.

maybe the sun in the void is fine. Which I could say it's worth your time. And it might be for some readers I'm hoping the sequel stronger but it has a lot of debut author problems.

I think that one's worth your time. I wish it actually had an ending. That's that's my one thing is I wish it ended. I was I was pleasantly surprised by that one.

this one I think this one's worth your time. If you like adventure fantasy. I don't think it's as good as the top of our trilogy.

The blue beautiful world is great. I love that book. I love that trilogy. I love that author. I have an author interview with Karen Lord.

I think you can skip it. But I say that as someone who really didn't like it. It was very, very disappointed in the third book, and I wish that it wasn't the third book so I could have liked his DNF did but I just kept hoping the ending would save it for me and the ending sounds bad.

that's also fine. It's also left my brain for the most part. I don't have a lot of opinions about it. It's okay, I think you can see some of the twists a mile away if you have been reading fantasy and science fiction.

I'm putting it in skip it, but only for readers who are like me, which is that you've kind of not been vibing with the Schwab books, you've tried darker shades of magic and it wasn't that good for you. I think you should skip it.

I also say this as a skip it. I just think it's I mean, I guess it is just fine. But in terms of like you have the secret projects by Brandon Sanderson. I think there are better versions of what Sanderson does here.

this is a new faith. I love this short story collection. I love it so much. It is really good.

So the sunlit man that one is great, but only if you're a Cosmere reader.

The surviving skies when I just finished a couple days ago, and I think it's worth your time. For me, it's probably sitting around a three, three and a half star experience. I love the world building.

The unmaking of June Farrow is a solid skip because I just think it's so boring. I think it's so incredibly boring and not worth your time. It's a boring book. I don't like it.

The world of men is great. I had a lot of fun with that. I really want the sequel like right now.

Thornhedge. Also great T. Kingfisher, like I T Kingfisher is always at least a great experience for me. Nothing has quite I think hit the nettle and bone of it all. This one was really good.

Trust in the Emerald See also great if you like whimsical stuff.

untethered sky for me is great. I really liked it. I think this was the perfect space to explore the relationship between a person their passionate career that involves like training a wild creature and what that means, and it's in a fantastical world and it explores her relationship with revenge her family, like her found family and like I really liked it.

Vampires of el norte will put in new faves because I think of nests store a lot. Like I really do. And I bought a copy and it's so pretty it brings me joy.

then go I think Vanco is great. Another contemporary fantasy that's just like about witches in North America. I think it's intersectional feminism. Like it's not like groundbreaking, but it's super fun.

victory city I think is worth your time. I really liked it. This was my first by this author who's fairly beloved in the literary fiction space. And I want to read more by him.

we weren't I say, skip it. I know. It's very popular, but I don't want to get I just think it's so fine. It's such a good version of what it is like, it's okay. It's so okay.

In which king I say skip it. Oh, yeah. Which King is not. I don't know who it's for. It wasn't entertaining. And I don't think the themes were that different or deep.

You will be in the nightmare paid for it's probably worth your time. That's probably where I rank them.