3,4 and 17 for the book asks!
3. What were your top five books of the year?
In chronological order becasue I'm bad at ranking:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A Memory of Empire by Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan duology)
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsym Muir
Babel by R.F. Kuang
4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?
Yes! As well as a couple of the authors above (Arkady Martine + Tamsym Muir) I also very much enjoyed C.L. Polk's Kingston Cycle and Foz Meadows' A Strange and Stubborn Endurance and the Manifold Worlds duology and would read more of their work. (I actually picked up the Manifold Worlds books Because I really enjoyed the other book they had written)
17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?
Yes definitely, I was surprised by how emotional Project Hail Mary made me feel. I absolutely went into A Strange and Stubborn Endurance thinking of it as a "guilty pleasure" fun romance read and instead fell in love with the worldbuilding and story. Those are the two the stand out to me the Most but definitely read some good books this year.
Thank you!
