Ranking 2022 Hugo Nominess | Novels & Novellas

i gave three stars i liked the first book enough but not enough that if like this was in the this round like that would have been a contender it still wouldn't have been ranked like super high but the second book i almost dnf'd a few times when i keep reading it i'm fine but when i'm not reading it i felt like it was really slow and like a little bit too convoluted

i love this a steampunk cairo with a murder mystery a sapphic main character gin and angels and like all these people and like this plot but this is sort of like a detective story

becky chambers work i just i just love it i just love it this is a very quiet story about a team monk who's essentially a therapist having a bit of a quarter life crisis goes out into the wilderness trying to like sort of find purpose and runs into a robot

i preferred the first half of it to the second half the second half i feel like it kind of lost the plot a little bit and got a little bit convoluted but it was fine three stars

this is one of these standalone novellas within the wayward children series which is a series that i really love this was just fine i wasn't particularly moved by like the themes i felt like the themes in here were a little weaker not the weakest of the whole series but slightly weaker

it's delightful and one that i again because i go to number one i do think personally it should win as like a standout of like this did everything the writing is good i like the characters the like the sci-fi fantasy mix

this one was well written but it felt like a smaller part of a larger novel i would have loved to have read a story that was a full-sized novel about this and this was one of the shortest novellas on the nominees list so it even could have been slightly extended

there's so many plot points and so many themes being explored that it just got lost for like such a short book it also like didn't quite feel real to me like it was so i think it would do really well i've said this already but i think it would do really well with this as a tv show but the over-the-topness of the book part of it felt like very surface level to me i just didn't connect as much as i wanted to which is a bummer i still liked it

i gave this one 4.5 stars i listened to it on audio i do think if i would have read another version i wouldn't have liked it quite as much the audiobook is fantastic but this is very like fun sort of mystery

this i liked and is a very solid book but for a sci-fi fantasy award i don't necessarily think this should be nothing shouldn't be nominated but the fantasy elements of this are so minor and you could actually take those out and it wouldn't change the book at all

this is the fourth and final book in the wayfarer series every single book in the series has been five stars for me i love it this book features all aliens i love it they are essentially stranded at like a waypoint because some like tech stuff happens that goes down so nothing's super stressful but interpersonally stressful

ultimately i liked what this was doing with this like climate crisis but hope thing that was going on and like i did like our main character a lot so four out of five stars