Talking Story 22.3K subscribers · Feb 20, 2024

Ranking Every 2023 Read in 20 SECONDS

  • Ranking · 74 books

Reviews74

All Systems RedMartha Wells
Not a fan

I do not like Misa murderbot I don't like it doesn't work for me I know everyone thinks it's wonder I feel like the odd kid I'm not sitting at the cool table

AscendantMichael R. Miller
Loved it

I really like this I can't wait to get back to this I'm going to go I'm going to go between way of aan and my heart as a chainsaw into the pretty solid

I the character arcs get stuck there's they don't move they don't they don't change from who they are they're brutal people at the beginning they're brutal people at the end

Cave 13Jonathan Maberry
Mixed

it's not fair to Mayberry because I he does this great thing of kind of catching you up but it seemed a bit repetitive right but he if you have a year between the books then it's a totally different story

Dark AgePierce Brown
Loved it

I love Dark Age great it's gonna go in great it's gonna go it's going to go pretty high up and great it's going to go after wow I think it's at the very top of great

such a fun group of high school students returning to fight ultimate Evil that they thought they vanquished during their prom and that's by Christopher farnworth right Christopher worth I really enjoyed this

I'm going to recommend if you're a full-on Joe Ledger completist I wasn't like blown away by this because I felt like he was kind of wash and repeat some of the same plot devices that he had used before

Donut LegionJoe R. Lansdale
Mixed

fun mystery not as best not his best but if you love Lansdale and you just want to laugh out loud at some colloquialisms and you want a fun little mystery and you want a read that just can wrap up in literally a day and a half

I really dug this I didn't know if I'd be into lit RPG I only read one before this I really like the world I really like the politics of the world I really like the setup and I love the characters and Grand Champion princess donut was my character the year

ElantrisBrandon Sanderson
Loved it

I thought this was pretty solid like I wanted to start like at the beginning and a lot of people say don't startop start there because it's not like one of his stronger a but it's got some horror Vibes to it

Fall of NightUnknown
Loved it

this is the best of the Zombie series if you like zombie books I love this I loved actually getting into the head of the zombies what they're thinking which I thought was super inventive

FerrymanJustin Cronin
Loved it

I love this man Justin Cronin oh he held me in suspense to the very end right like this great mystery of this island and what's going on

Fool's HopeMike Shackle
Loved it

this is book two this is my favorite of these of this series I don't think I would call it a masterpiece I don't think I would call it a masterpiece but I really there's a turn in this like the this Invasion occupation is the time is so compressed it just takes place over a matter of days

Full ThrottleJoe Hill
Mixed

I love me some Joe Hill I think he did one of the best collections I've ever read with 20th century ghost this me some really great high points but I didn't think it was its best

Golden SonPierce Brown
Loved it

Golden Sun was great all right I Golden Sun was great where will I put it in Great Golden Sun Golden Sun I'm gonna put it I mean I wasn't really sure Red Rising was for me until I got to Golden Sun and it really oh yeah no I'm all in

HollyStephen King
Loved it

I really like this he I all my time I'll book to him I've liked these I'm telling you I sound like a broken record he I really like that he stretched himself and wanted to Mark time during our cover years as so we can understand it from an artist perspective of what we all went through and it was a great mystery

Iron GoldPierce Brown
Loved it

iron gold really pretty solid all let's put let's put it let's put it right after God I love when he went to this to the multi POV

I love J and I shouldn't have even read that because I haven't read the other green bone Saga books but by fond Le Yeah by Fonda Lee and I love how it's got like so many layers like it's got the crime family it's it's just got the family drama it's just got magic on top of that on top of that on top of that

if you're not a Lovecraft fan I got to go I got to go at the very top of could recommend if you're not a Lovecraft fan I don't it's it probably wouldn't be your bag

LightbringerPierce Brown
Loved it

masterpie no way let's let's go that's probably gosh for me let's go is it before Excalibur or after I mean I read Red Rising just so I could be ready for this book when it came out and it didn't disappoint

Lone WomenVictor D. LaValle
Mixed

I could recommend this it's I just did not think this was one of his best disenfranchised great female protagonist has some kind of curse has to flee your home great historical fiction with a magical realism twist in there bordering on low fantasy

Mister MagicKiersten White
Mixed

this didn't entirely land for me it was such a great like a haunted children show that kind of like reaches through the TV and messes with kids like gives them you know voices like what a great for a horror fan what a great conceit what a great idea I just didn't think she gave it enough of a of a background

love this Rift War fan from all the way back I did not remember reading this even though I know I did this Trilogy checks in with a woman in three different stages of her life they're all amazing mistress is okay that's the last one not my favorite

Mountain in the SeaRay Nayler
Loved it

this was really cool I really like this it's like a really interesting alien story but the alien civilization is living in our oceans it's really inventive

this is like a love letter to every slasher movie a great female protagonist a great setting on the lake like all the old slasher films it's like an Easter eggs of so many slasher films if you're looking for a fun spooky read and you like slasher flicks this is it

Night ShipJess Kidd
Mixed

this was not a bad ghost story I would say it was it's about 73 and 3/4% success uccessful ghost story kind of has a historical fiction feel very lit very literary characters are very deep very three-dimensional very well drawn motivations are good plot meanders a little bit

I loved her romances I loved how she didn't judge her young characters she really put them through the ringer it was a very inventive werewolf world the pros was really good very visual I really like this book

RageJonathan Maberry
Mixed

I could recommend the other ones are pretty solid but rage I thought it's this is where it started getting real repetitive

Red RisingPierce Brown
Loved it

Red Rising by Pierce Brown yeah I'm going to go pretty solid I didn't even know if I was all in at this point pretty solid

RelentlessJonathan Maberry
Loved it

this is a Joe Ledger novel and is like the ending of this is just jaw-dropping like a what like if you're going to Kill Your Darlings like what he puts his lead character through here

you know I love Matthew Corbett I love Matthew Corbett one of my favorite series and if you if you want to get into the series you would not have to read these short stories unless you're real completist and you just want every moment with the characters you could get it I'm going to this is going to be my first pretty solid

I really like silver nitrate okay let's go this is pretty solid silver nitrate is a pretty solid book she could have done more with one character I loved but oh the whole thing of like you know forbidden Arcane knowledge like from the Nazis in Mexico City

Siren QueenNghi Vo
Not a fan

I wasn't crazy I love the idea of this mythical Godlike creatures running Golden Age Hollywood I just it didn't land for me

I really liked alloy of law it was my favorite read of last month I really like the theme of identity all the way through it and I kind of really like this steampunk world the big time cut after era 1

this was not anywhere near one of my favorite happen Leonard books I kind of just thought the plot was kind of just like a long bugs coyote Roadrunner Cartoon chasing and I love it when he gets more into the weeds with the case

Lov Miss borne love Miss borne and the Caper and meeting Vin who's just you know just stuck in a corner and can't get out and then she starts to realize her own power and Blossom

this is the last of Miss borera one this is my favorite book of Miss Boro one I'm going to call a masterpiece because he pays off every plot device he plants every minut tiny little breadcrumb

this was a good vampire okay we're into we're into Halloween spooky reads now okay yeah this was I got this from Andrew and he G liked vampire reads and this was his favorite and I really liked it I'm going to say if you like vampire books I could totally recommend it

I really like this the Poetry of this two diverging timelines one mechanical one carbon you know who's going to be ascendant and then they're at War and then like there's a love story between the two and they leave each other notes in the most amazing inventive ways but I thought for me the Poetry got a little I it was overwritten almost

Until the LastMike Shackle
Loved it

this is the end of the last war Trilogy I really dug this Trilogy it's on my all-time best list but that's not my favorite book of the three so it wrapped up great I'm going to put it in great

WarbreakerBrandon Sanderson
Loved it

I think I gave it like a solid five when I reviewed it you did now you're a liar I'm telling you it's you're it's very difficult it's better than S I liked it better than silver nitrate

I dug this book man I really dug this book wow okay I'm going to start making it harder to get into great though I'm going to say a way of a Dan I'm going to go wow the philosophy it's right up there with Empire of silence and the spiritual journey same with Empire of silence and has that classical fantasy vibe that I love

this is a Miss for me I think Brandon Sanderson had some notes in a drawer that he was not finished with he's taken the same toys out of like the princess going so I mean so many of his tropes so many of the Sanders sonian tropes that he loves he's taken out again and I don't think he got it to where he wanted it and I just think turned his notes over to a Comics company and they got an artist an artist was pretty good and a writer and I just I just it just did not come together for me

Winter KingUnknown
Loved it

that's great that's got to go in the great I didn't like it as much as enemy a God I didn't like it as much last argument let's go right before until the last he did such a great job like it was so solid it was so real and I loved all of it being from der's point of view