Guy Gavriel Kay - Ultimate Tier Ranking w/library ladder, Jake Bishop

It is my favorite novel of K's and I think it does absolute absolutely everything well. I think the characterization is great.

I still enjoyed it though. I think because I read it at the right time, but I think this one narratively is not one of one of K's best.

I just simply said that was beautiful. It's my number two favorite K novel. I'm going to put it top of the S tier.

Children of Earth in Sky is one of the ones I've read this year. It's actually one of my maybe top books of the year. It's it's not top tier K, but I think it's I think it's a really strong really strong novel.

Lord of Emperors is one of K's best. I mean, it's it's hard to say which book has the best K ending, but I think Lord of Emperors was the most emotionally moving one for me.

The thing I remember River of Stars is kind of just to echo what I said about , The Last Light of the Sun is I remember this story, I didn't know where it was going. It was just kind of meandering and then it revealed itself into something and then the ending was incredible.

I don't think I can put Sailor to Sarantium top tier because it's only half the story. It's very good and I love Sarantine Mosaic.

And for me the issue was it took a long time for the kind of the plot to reveal itself where it was going. And then once I thought it got there, I thought it was great.

And the darkest road for me just continue that progression it was clearly the best book of the three and I think it's probably going to be the first one on the outstanding tier for me because I really love the way this ended.

But Lions is for me another one that's that's clear S tier. It's it's not for me at the level of Arbon, which you'll hear me say none of them are for me. but I think it's a clear S tier.

And The Summer Tree, in my opinion, is Kay's weakest book. It is his debut. ... I'm going to put the summer tree in the good to great tier.

And the learning curve was pretty steep because I thought this one got very good. It is a little bit darker. ... I think it's great.

That said, I really like Tagana, but I don't think Tagana is top tier K. I think that Tigana is an outstanding book.

Under Heaven just really stuck with me and I think it's top tier. I love the I love the Eastern setting.

I think it was kind of a mixed bag. to be honest, I did like the setting.

I really enjoyed Isabelle. I fully expect you to overrule me here, but I'm going to put Isabelle in the outstanding tier.