#book ranking

[certifiedfantasyreader]

Now that GoWar is out, i wanna rank the LOG series. ( no body asked for this😊)

These are my opinions!!! I totally understand if we have different opinions and it's fine!!!

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Books.

1. GOF💛( Are we surprised?? Nikobran anyday)

2. GOWrath🤎( JerCec are my roman empire)

3. GOP💜( For Anni amd Anni only)

4. GOR💙( I was kinda disappointed )

5. GOWar🩷 (Absolute trash)

6. GOM❤️( Glyn deserves better )

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Characters ( FC)

1. CECILY KNIGHT ( I LOVE HER 💕)

2. Annika Volkov ( She's her mother's daughter 💜)

3. Maya Sokolov (No book and still slayed ✨️)

4. Ava Nash ( Besides her own pov she's fine 🩷)

5. Glyndon King. ( Nothing wrong but could've been better❤️)

6. Mia Sokolov ( Flopped after the first couple of chapters. Maybe if RK didn't hype her like she's a badass I would've liked her)

Honorary mention to Ariella Nash ( SHE DESERVES A BOOK!!!!)

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Characters MC

1. BRANDON KING ( My soft bby💛 loml)

2. JEREMY VOLKOV ( He's his daddy son😮‍💨)

3. Nikolai sokolov ( Scary sunshine alright 🥹)

4. Landon king ( lan in GOF🙌)

5. Creighton King ( He was fine until the last 20% 😒)

6. Eli King ( Boring af 😴)

7. Killian Carson( 🚔 disgusting pig if u ask me)

Honorary mention to Remi Astor (How the only son of ronan doesn't have a book is beyond me)

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Couples

1. NIKOBRAN💛 ( Again , are we surprised?)

2. JERCEC 🤎 ( They healed each other )

3. AnniCreigh💜 ( They really were cute)

4. LanMia💙 ( Lan surprised me )

5. EliAva🩷 ( Idk man ,I did not feel any chemistry)

6. KillGlyn❤️ ( I loath how it started but ig they were fine as a side characters).

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AGAIN THIS IS JUST MY OPINION!!!!

[overthegardenwirtt]

top ten books I read this year, ranked:

10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (pub 1939)

Honestly this wasn't the most mind-blowing or memorable book, but it was my first Christie and my introduction to this genre. It got me out of a slump too which was great. Christie's style is so very british but I thoroughly enjoyed this as my introduction to this kind of mystery, and I found the reveal to be surprising and well done! This book definitely made me want to pick up more Agatha Christie in the future, but I'm not in any particular hurry to do so.

9. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood (pub 1939)

This was actually my most recent read. I picked up this book knowing that it was the inspiration behind the musical (and film) Cabaret. This book feels much more of a piece of creative nonfiction/memoir than a novel, but it tells different stories in vignettes of people in Berlin in the 1930s. Between dancers and artists like Sally Bowles, queer people in Berlin, and Jewish people living through the rise of the Nazi party, these true stories were incredibly touching and really made me think about the way we talk about fascism today. The modern way in which people spoke in Weimer Germany, and the extent to which they knew what was going on in Germany at this time and still just let the Nazi takeover happen, is terrifying and all too real, and I am glad this book exists to highlight that.

8. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin (pub 1953)

My first Baldwin of the year and third Baldwin book overall. I really enjoyed this book, as it was an exploration of a Black family in Harlem, and each family members' relationship with one another and with God. I loved the way the story was told, through flashbacks and memories of each character as they sat to pray in a church. Each story was both incredibly humanizing and devastating, and the ending was surprisingly somewhat hopeful.

7. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (pub 1976)

I read this after the second season of the amc show aired. Honestly, this book was so much better than I was expecting it to be, given what I know about where Anne Rice takes the series in the future. In this novel, the prose is so beautiful and breathtaking. Anne Rice also delves into such deep and thought-provoking discussions about God and religion, goodness and evil and monstrousness, through her characters and their philosophies, and how they deal with their vampirism. I fully feel that this book deserves to be called the modern Frankenstein.

6. Babel by RF Kuang (pub 2022)

The youngest book on here by far. I am often weary of the trendy new books and the 'booktok' books, especially those that seem to be fulfilling some kind of aesthetic. So, my expectations going into this weren't the highest, I was expecting, as is true with most 'dark academia' books, a rip-off of The Secret History. However, I was so pleasantly surprised by this book! This book is an anti-colonialist response to The Secret History and the like, and explores how academia always serves the institutions in power, and how specifically British academia has driven, and continues to drive, imperialism. This book was also very science-fictiony, and completely deserves its Nebula award. The magic system in this book is so interesting and novel to me, and i truly think Kuang is a genius. Also, I personally loved the footnotes. It's so clear how much work and research went into this book, and it adds so much to the quality of the book.

5. Animal Farm by George Orwell (pub 1945)

This was technically a re-read, since I read Animal Farm with my mom in elementary school and didn't understand it at all. So, I finally got back around to reading this and it was great. Just so perfectly told, the story of revolt from one authoritarian regime and the decline into another, arguably worse regime. It was also incredibly heartbreaking, and made even more so by making the characters farm animals. It is truly a perfect book and I know it sounds cliche, but everyone should read it. George Orwell is well-known for a reason.

4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (pub 1969)

This one was unexpected! I have owned Slaughterhouse-Five for years, I think it has been sitting on by bookshelf for over five years untouched. I finally got around to reading it a few months ago and it was incredible. Kurt Vonnegut has a witty and to-the-point writing style that was difficult to get used to at first, but I definitely believe it worked in this book's favor. The childlike, simple way of writing and speaking, combined with the grim topic of WWII and PTSD, really highlight the sadness of Kurt Vonnegut's situation and how young he, and Billy Pilgrim, and all these soldiers really were. I absolutely loved the sci-fi interludes as well. It worked both creatively, to provide an allegory for war and PTSD, and literally to show just how dissociative Billy Pilgrim would get after the war. This book left me feeling incredibly sad, and I know that was just the point.

3. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (pub 1969)

And the book that beat Slaughterhouse-Five for both the Hugo and the Nebula! This book is not one that I would typically read, but I am so glad that I did. It is considered a seminal work of feminist science fiction, and tells the story of a human man named Genly who goes to a planet where all the people are genderless. It is a beautiful story of finding love and understanding with other people, and learning that there are strengths in our differences, and those differences can bring us together. This is a truly great novel, and left me feeling the way the protagonist felt, having gained a new empathy and love for human beings, no matter how different we may be.

2. Another Country by James Baldwin (pub 1962)

My fourth and final James Baldwin novel to date. I absolutely loved this book. The writing style, the beautiful vibes, and the beautiful and devastating story of a group of friends in Greenwich Village, New York was so compelling. This was one of those books that I could not just put away after I finished it. I had to read and reread the book, go over it in my mind for a while afterwards. This book explores Black masculinity and Black womanhood in America, it explores queerness, and specifically Black queerness during this time, and it explores the complicated dynamics between a multiracial group of friends in 1960s America. It feels so shockingly ahead of its time.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (pub 1949)

yeah yeah, this is cliche, but it's so well-known, and so spoken about, for a good reason. This book, outside of its talk about authoritarianism, was actually just a thoroughly enjoyable and effective work of psychological horror. The way that language and history can shape our current really was so brilliantly done that it had me questioning whether O'Brien was telling the truth to Winston at times. I feel like this is a controversial opinion, but I felt that many of the characters, including Winston, Julia, Syme, and even O'Brien to a lesser extent, were humanized in a way that I felt terrible for these characters. This book had such incredible world-building that I would have been okay with reading 300 full pages of Winston's day-to-day life, that's how interested I was in this horrifying world Orwell created. However, the plot was equally as compelling! I truly felt like I was there with Winston through every step of his journey, and that made this novel feel so sickeningly horrific, and so effective.

[rayssion]

So the ranking as of now is:

1. Trials of Apollo/Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard.

2. Heroes of Olympus.

3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

5. The Kane Chronicles.

Believe me, I didn't expect this, like I thought mcga would take down pjo at most, never expected it to compete for first place!

I'd recommend it and toa at any given moment, they're just soo good!!

Currently reading tsats and I'm having some side books in my tbr (like demigods files and diaries, greek gods and other ones) hopefully I'll do a one on one book ranking after I finish.

[1800naveen]

My ranking of the Acotar series!

A court of thorns and roses (it will always be THE book for me out of all of them. Missing the trio that could've been.)

A court of wings and ruin (the war with Hybern is the only thing that kept me going. Rip to the suriel, fly high or low because I don't know what the hell you were or what you've done before you entered Prythian.)

A court of silver flames (Haven't read it yet but only because it's Nesta, Emerie, and Gwyn. I will most likely hate everything else.)

A court of mist and fury (The retcons were crazy and Tamlin's character got ruined.)

A court of frost and starlight (this filler novella was ASS! STRAIGHT UP ASS! Should've said in the drafts.)

[dovebuffy92]

My Ranking of Solo Horror Grady Hendrix Novels

My Best Friend's Exorcism

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

The Final Girl Support Group

How to Sell a Haunted House

We Sold Our Souls

Horrstor

[sophiecountsclouds]

Ranking My 5 Star Reads from 2023 (so far)

ranking my 5 star reads from 2023 (so far) -

Hello! In taking a photo for my bookstagram account the other day, I realised that in this just-past-midway point of the year, I’ve read 10 books that I’ve rated 5 stars and I thought it would be fun to rank them. I’m actually pleasantly surprised with how broad they are in genre and how they’re all rated the same but for very different reasons. I’m not very good at speaking concisely about…

[theultimatenonbinarynerd]

Ranking All 4 Fazbear Frights Books I Read

Introduction

Hello everyone, since I got into the FNAF fandom after the film I told my friend as a bookworm that I wanted to checkout some of the novels so I did. My friend first introduced me to Fazbear Frights and I was very curious. Fazbear Frights has been very bizzare but I for the most part have really enjoyed it.

Listen I know people love Scott Cawthorn but his writing has sometimes been questionable in these stories. Sorry it's just my opinion and I hope people can respect that. What he's created is super spooky and interesting but some of the stories made me want to cry at how bad they were.

However some of these stories are some of the best short stories I have ever read and hit me part of these stories. Room For One More left me gagging and generally wanting to throw up. The horror was perfectly done as perfect as the core routes of the franchise. I feel so bad for the kids and the horror of what they went through. Some of the stories felt dull some did actually keep me up at night.

There are 12 books in the Fazbear Frights series and I would have loved to read all of them but I just don't have the attention span or sanity to cope with it especially after reading some of the stories in these volumes they felt physically draining.

With that out of the way let's get onto the ranking...

4: 1:35 AM

Room for one more was one of my favourite stories from this collection it was so disturbingly spooky that it put me off my lunch. 1:35 was repetive but intresting as that's the definition of insanity but the New Kid came and crashed the whole collection to the crowd, I feel so sorry for the people that had to put their energy into reading it as I had no idea what the f*** was going on... If you asked me to recount the plot I wouldn't be able too.

Whilst the stories were just genuine repetive The New Kid physically made my blood boil. There's a way better version of that story called Happs. I like it when a collection is consistent in quality and this one just wasn't it especially after how enjoyable Room For One More. I also just think it was very repetive for no reason at all.

Room For One More truly is the only thing holding up this collection. Stanley goes through it for no reason and its really graphic and gross. I got the concept of 1:35 am but it didn't suit the prose format. It's truly one of my favourite short stories I have ever read and I would recommend this collection soley based on that. It's also the perfect companion to Sister Collection.

Apart from that though 1:35 is definitely the weakest in my opinion and I can only imagine what it would have been like if I read past book 4.

Not as bad as 1:35 Am but taking the number 3 spot is...

3: Fetch

After a fairly decent start with Into The Pit let's say Fetch was rather disappointing for me. The stories felt way too slow burn and I felt like some stories like Lonley Freddy better suited a longer prose novel form to flesh out the characters better as Alec was an a hole for no legit reason, reminded me of my own siblings. Fetch was definitely the best out of the stories due to it's crazy Chucky/Megan/ Black Mirror esc feels. Lonley Freddy was a hundred percent the weakest of the bunch due to it's horrible unsympathetic main character and the horror being only in the last third of the story.

That being said though I think these stories stay more consistent in quality so that's why if I were to read again it'd be much easier to come back to Fetch. Some repetive beats were still there but it's much easy to digest and read. I also know mostly what's going on through the entire three short stories. I also like the fact is has the theme of think before you act/actions have consequences.

The horror is way better in some of the other Frights and Tales books but it's still a well worth it collection to give a go, if it wasn't it'd take the number 4 spot. Fetch has made me even more uncomfortable about AI, Lonley Freddy has made me scared to go to a party and Out Of Stock has made me stick to my vow of never stealing. So despite being for a ya/middle grade audience it can be scary for adults too.

Overall a pretty decent and enjoyable collection. This next one really sucked me into the world of Five Nights At Freddy's...

2: Into The Pit

A very very decent first start. It was very engaging and from start to finish had me engaged in the story of five nights at freddys. It's not here to solve all of the lore but to be honest I don't mind I'm mainly here for the fnaf inspired short story collection and it for the most part very much delivered. All three stories were very creepy and sinister as it had again that theme of be careful of what you wish for. I also actually understood what was going on in every story. The best out of the collection was definitely To Be Beautiful it was a really grotesque and haunting, actions have consequences with it not ending well for Sarah. Worst of the collection was a hundred percent Count The Ways, Millie was really unsympathetic and unlikeable until the end of the story.

I think these stories are really good at balancing horror and set up unlike some of the other stories later on in the collection. They are all for the most part consistent in quality and atmosphere. Even when we get to the mundane stuff it doesn't really throw you out of the story. I also love how all of the stories actually connect to Freddys animatronics whilst being their own unique thing. Eleanor for example is more than a knock off circus baby. The villians in these stories will give you chills.

The stories cross the line between fantastical and super natural but it's still a very entertaining read. I found myself hooked and engaged throughout. I was most sucked in during Into The Pit the Dad trap seemed really funny but dark at the same time. I'm a whovian so I did not bat an eye at the time travelling ball pit. I've also seen Black Mirror so I wasn't afraid of the dark endings in To Be Beautiful and Count The Ways. I also believe that Into The Pits more hopeful ending leads you into a false sense of security throughout the novel.

Very good but not my favourite out of the four I read in the collection. My favourite has to go to...

1: Step Closer

This was fantastic and im so glad I left Fazbear Frights on a good note after the travertsy that was the third collection. The stories all perfectly connected with all being about grief and guilt and it was actually engaging to read. Man my heart couldn't take it, I actually almost cried. It still managed to keep the fnaf aesthetic whilst also trying as a reader to make me feel something. It hit me hard, it wasn't a five star worthy collection definitely not but it was still really well written and way better than other 3 collections. My favourite for the collection was a hundred percent Coming Home, it gave Lovely Bones vibes and hit me hard, it perfectly shows Grief And how Aftons actions might affect other families whilst also at the same time perfectly paying tribute to the first game. Least favourit Count The Ways, I'm tired of unlikeable teenage protagonist, Scott and Co for the most part don't know how to write children and its a massive problem.

The horror was still plentiful and they all did not hold back. Pete went through literal hell more than I've been through as an accident prone person. I also loved that even though Dance With Me and Coming Home had more supernatural horror it was still eiree and uncomfortable especially once you realise that heartbreaking twist in Coming Home. I love complex ghost stories as when I go into horror I'm not here for the blood, guts and gore I'm here for the emotional impact as in my controversial opinion you don't need horror to have blood spilled death for it to be impactful.

When I say Step Closer has cementated it's place as best out of the four I mean it. Step Closer is truly haunting and eiree. It's a collection that can leave you frightened for the protagonist one moment and then emotional to the next. It's a really deep and heartbreaking collection. Susie's story just punches you in the gut even more when you realise what's really going on and Casey is a character who does bad stuff but is actually really sympathetic. Pete as annoying he was, you felt really bad when the curse kept escalating.

Out of all of the four I recommend this one as its the best in terms of quality and consistency. If you done care about the Epilogues this is one to go for.

Conclusion

Overall a very surprisingly interesting but sometimes mid set off books. It might not be everyone's cup of tea as it's mainly for younger teen fans in my opinion but there's still stuff to enjoy. All 12 short stories were very bold in terms of story telling and creativity.

We'll see how some of the Tales Books suffice and then I'll rank those separately and then together. Reading Tales its already interesting to read the contrasting difference. As a casual fan I'm very interested and appreciate all the bold ideas of story telling.

Unfortunately as someone who's going to study creative writing, my brain can't switch off when it comes to my critics.

This has been really interesting to explore.

-Melody-

They/Them

[scooterscoob]

it’s like there’s an audience.

[twilight-skies]

To anyone who was genuinely excited/optimistic for this movie until now

[waitineedaname]

I think the effects of leaving a fandom unsupervised for too long needs to be studied

[yrsonpurpose]

Hey, have I told you lately that you're brave?

[eightdoctor]

just because YOU don’t know why the eighth doctkr is half human doesn’t mean it’s dumb or bad. there’s literally a reason explicitly given in canon and yet every body is always like “ohh it was a dumb joke” “everybody ignored it anyway” “it wasn’t brought up again”. just say you’re uninformed it’s okay. i promkse you. go read interference books one and two and then you can join the discussion. maybe the blue angel too

[irukasito]

when kakashi and iruka announce they’re dating (they tell gai and gai tells everyone via a very loud ‘congratulations on your young and blooming love’) every auntie within a 200 mile radius drops to their knees in agony bc who are their sons and daughters supposed to marry now if not iruka-sensei??

[rayssion]

Ranking update, including tsats:

Which is me basically telling myself go fuck yourself.

1. Trials of Appollo/Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard.

2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

3. Heroes of Olympus.

4. The sun and the star.

5. The Kane Chronicles.

Yes, I said I won't rank it with series because it's a standalone book and they're a bunch of books, but I decided I'd still do it and compare the basic elements of writing and compromise it with my liking of the book then rank.

I'm also having thoughts of ranking it lower, which means it'd be my least favourite thing Rick wrote.

This ranking is from critical perspective on how well the book is written and the consistency of it's plot and other things, not how much I love it because of course I love solangelo!

Here is my review of tsats btw.

[reasonsforhope]

Book Publishing Resources

Well, since a few people said they were interested and/or that posting about it on here occasionally was a decent idea, here we go!

I'm MC Calvi, a freelance editor specializing in self-help, psychology, spirituality, paganism, workbooks, and LGBTQ books.

You can find out more about me at my website, where I also offer free twenty-minute book/publishing consultations, in addition to regular editing services.

I am also now offering some pay-what-you-can resources on my website and on Gumroad. I'm committed to offering pay-what-you-can resources because the odds are already so stacked against marginalized authors, and publishing shouldn't be pay to win.

I have two new booklets I'm actually super happy with! They both draw on my eight years of experience in the publishing industry to give authors a leg up.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming as I hit "publish" on another good news post!

[sebfreak]

"We will help you, Natsume-dono!"