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2024
My Year in Books
27,810
pages read
Steve
68
books read
Steve
Compulsory by Martha Wells
Shortest Book
8
pages
The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
Longest Book
915
pages
Average book length in 2024
408
pages
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Most Shelved
1,698,066
people also shelved
Wyngraf by Shanna Germain
Least Shelved
18
people also shelved
Steve’s average rating for 2024
4.0
really liked it
4.0
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.54 average
Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Steve’s first review of the year

really liked it
A fun, quick palate-cleanser to start the new year.
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Starter Villain by John Scalzi
The Forgetting Moon by Brian Lee Durfee
The Blackest Heart by Brian Lee Durfee
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde
it was amazing
Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton
The Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne
Witch King by Martha Wells
Home by Martha Wells
Compulsory by Martha Wells
it was amazing
Fantastic Four, Vol. 1 by Ryan North
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, th... by Drew Hayes
Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist
Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
really liked it
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton
The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
The Shadow Of What Was Lost by James Islington
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
it was amazing
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
An Echo of Things to Come by James Islington
The Light of All That Falls by James Islington
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
really liked it
I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells
HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Priest of Lies by Peter McLean
The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
it was amazing
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Skullsworn by Brian Staveley
Translation State by Ann Leckie
Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
it was amazing
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Where Rivers Go to Die by Dilman Dila
What Sunny Saw in the Flames by Nnedi Okorafor
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
really liked it
Wyngraf by Shanna Germain
At Amberleaf Fair by Phyllis Ann Karr
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Steve’s last review of the year

really liked it
This feels like a myth. You feel like you join the story after the beginning and leave before the end. That’s not to say there isn’t a coherent, and reasonably satisfying, beginning, middle and end, however it does leave a lot unsaid (or hinted at). This isn’t Tolkien, which is not necessarily a bad thing. If anything, this feels like an Ur-myth for the bildungsroman trope.
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