I have it sitting on my shelf! This might be the push I need to actually read it. Thanks!

Maybe they’re doing A/B testing… they might get rid of it but I’m not hopeful.

I feel like the only real advantage goodreads still has is the community and that’s going to die too if they keep doing stuff like this

Thanks so much! I hadn’t heard of most of these authors so I’ll have to give them a go

It does! I feel like it’s always hard to follow up a book that good

Have you read anything else that does like ‘slightly incomprehensible strangeness’ as well as Vita Nostra? I feel like Annihilation, The Gone Away World, and Amatka are going for something close.

I realizing I was going to love this one after the first chapter with the beach and the gold coins? It was a great book to go into completely blind.

Have you read Assassin of reality?

Yes! though maybe more specific than an entire genre. I feel like there are a lot of stories I just need to be a better writer to tell.

But honestly I think waiting sometimes work. A ton of great authors mention on holding off or putting away ideas for years until they can do them justice.

I loved Blindsight. I first read it long before ChatGPT and I didn’t really understand how (SPOILER) the alien could hold a conversation without communicating.

I reread it after ChatGPT and suddenly it made so much sense.

Feel like pitching the apocalypse series? I haven’t heard of it.

‘The Witness for the Dead’ and ‘The Grief of Stones’ both follow an elf who can speak to the dead, as he tries to solve mysteries in the community he’s responsible for.

They’re in the same series as The Goblin Emperor but have almost no story/character overlap so they can be read by themselves!

Have you read the Fragile Threads of Power? I loved the darker shades of magic trilogy and I’m wondering if it’s worth picking up.

Yeah three months is three renewals for my library! But it renews automatically so it feels like one long loan. Enjoy your reading

You should report back if you feel like it! I’d love to know what you think. (And man it is way too easy to end up with a giant pile of library books. Especially since my library lets you keep them for three months…)

I’m already impatient to read it again. I wanted to read it again as soon as I finished the fourth book. I’m making myself wait at least a year. Six months later and I still find myself thinking about it.

Terra Ignota plays with ideas of gender, religion, morality, unique government & social structures, a justice system involving something like slavery… Plus a very unreliable narrator who crosses lines it’s hard to sympathize with. And that’s just what I can say without spoilers.

I liked this one a lot. Not as original as Children of Time, but I felt like it had more emotion in a lot of ways? The worldbuilding gets more fantastical too which allows him to shove in a lot of cool details.