Ranking My Favorite Author's Debut Novels + What Does Goodreads Think?

I understand why Goodreads has it lower, but I think it's an outstanding book and definitely, you know, a top two book for me of this ranking.

But man, I just I love the courage. I love the inventiveness of his brand of horror that he reveals here. He's willing to go places that, you know, a lot of a lot of people might take it a little safer than he did, but man, Carrie is great.

It just feels very different because I didn't feel that in this book he was quite as strong with characterization as he is in everything else that I've read by him, including his non-fiction works. But it was still a good book.

I remember the story very clearly, but I think the characters are really wooden in this book and I didn't really latch on to any of them.

And actually, as I'm filming this today, I finished the series and I think it's a very strong series. I really enjoyed it and I enjoyed this debut, Harpy's Flight.

The one thing that really struck me when I read this a month or two ago because this is the most recent read on this list that I've read is that it's kind of an author searching for a voice. And it's a bit of a disjunct reading experience. But a lot of times Murakami does that and he does that well.

But for me, Marian O'Neal was outstanding. This is the best one of these 10 in my mind.

It gives you just great plotting from beginning to end, some great plot twists at the end. He gives you a character that you'll latch on to.

He creates in this book, his first book, two of my favorite characters in the entire fantasy genre, and he gives them memorable voices. He has a keen ear for dialogue.

But the book finds its feet and about halfway through this book, it follows one character on one of the sides of this continent and it really delves into this world and it's a fantastic read after that and each book gets better and better after that.