What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
144
pages
Longest Book
1,106
pages
Average book length in
2024
430
pages
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14
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Joshua’s
average rating for
2024
4.2
4.2
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.64
average
Joshua’s first review of the year
really liked it
A great beginning to a truly epic fantasy series. I haven't read a true straight-forward epic fantasy series in over a year, and it was nice to get back into one. I appreciated how Durfee, in telling this work of modern fantasy, still embraced a lot of the traditional fantasy archetypes that too many modern authors dismiss. Although I felt the book a tad bloated, and some elements of the conclusion predictable, I nonetheless enjoyed this and look
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Joshua’s last review of the year
liked it
A work of low fantasy set in Texas inspired by the Norse sagas sounded quite appealing to me. I wonder if I were more familiar with the sagas themselves if I would have connected with the text more, as I found the story itself only mildly interesting. And I struggled with the plotting: a 180-page book with 50 chapters means many chapters were one page in length. The result for me was a really disjunct reading experience with which I failed to con
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