This is such a labor of love! Not sure we could rank every single read of 2024 😅 but this was so fun to watch. It’s been so exhilarating watching your sun eater journey. It’s so fun finding a series that works so well for you!
@@Krisandmads Thanks you two! I did put off editing this one for a while 😅 I’m very keen to see how you go with Sun Eater and if you continue after EoS. Time for me to go catch up on what your Dads been reading 😅
Great video, as usual very enjoyable to watch. Disappointed with Project Hail Mary in DNF-tier but it seems you don't shy away from some controversy as you added Brando Sando there as well 😀
Ya every sun eater book just got better as I went. Just finish the vol 1 short stories and about to hit Queen amid ashes- very stoked to be back in the world
Great vid legend! I’ll hopefully get to lesser devils and howling dark soon to continue my journey into Sun Eater! I’ll have to work on convincing you to try Dirge so it can make the end of year tier list 😂 I think it might be your jam
Thanks @calumlott ! I hope you enjoy getting back to Sun Eater. I have thought about it a few times, I am quite apprehensive when it comes to reading books from people I’ve talked with. Because if I end up not liking it, I go radio silence rather than say anything potentially negative 😅 The last couple I’ve tried live struggled with
@@SpacedOutReads hey man, that’s totally understandable! There’s no one book for everyone! Well it’ll always be there if you change your mind and I certainly won’t take offense if you never said anything about it haha. I’m also a person that thrives on constructive criticism. Best way to improve! Regardless, keep crushing it with these videos and I’ll let you know what I think of the next Sun Eater🤘
I just started Sword of Kaigen! I'm glad I know it has a bit of a slower end, so maybe I won't be as disappointed as I have the right expectations. Salem's Lot is awesome. What King book will you be checking out next? So glad to see Hunger of the Gods in the S Tier!!!!
@@williamgwynne I’m excited to see your thoughts on Sword of Kaigen, it’s such an interesting and fresh read, also some great Avatar water bending magic! I think either Misery or Pet Semetary will be next. Of course, where else does a Gwynne book belong! Bloodsworn is the whole reason I started the channel
Well, I'm adding significantly to my purchase list for the year. 😂Actually just bought Dungeon Crawler Carl from a Prime Day deal yesterday because you spoke so highly of it. I'm looking forward to it a lot. I'm gonna throw out a recommend of my own, because i forgot all about it until I realized it got a paperback/hardcover (it was kindle/audible exclusive before), and i gotta tell someone about it LOL. "Mechanical Failure" by Joe Zieja. It's sci-fi. It's no epic, but it's a funny and easy read. Also the audio book is read by the author. idk I like when authors narrate their own books lol.
Not liking Project Hail Mary's humor while putting the Stormlight books in S tier is a very strange thing to me I thought the humor/interactions in it were quite similar in style and role dynamic to the stuff in the Stormlight books that happens between certain characters, especially in book 2 and 3 (haven't read 4 yet)
Absolutely agree, the humour of some of Sandersons characters isn’t my thing at all. But Stormlight has so many other legs so stand on, the characters and plot are of the best in the genre, and the humor is very minor. In Project Hail Mary, the whole book is humour and math.
Yea, I quite like the writing and loved it up to the 60% mark. For me it was the loose ends left in the plot that didn’t work well for me, going from a really action heavy plot then switching to a real character deep dive.
Damn, I had no idea there were some books to read inbetween the mainline series of Suneater... and that's a good thing ! Will have to check em out.. My top 3 reads so far this year: Empire of the Vampire, Empire of Silence (almost finished it), Will of the Many. I'm a slow reader, have read 12 books so far this year so a quarter ranking won't do me any good haha... I agree with Sword of Kaigen, there was so much hype behind it but it didn't really hit for me neither, glad I read it but yeah I moved on pretty quickly...
@@chrisgoods Yea, there’s quite a few pieces of extra content for Sun Eater, I haven’t even read it all yet, there’s a few more short story collections and a novella I’ve got to read. So far the first short story in Vol 1 is the only essential reading, but I do rate the first two novellas. That’s 3 really great books! I hope the other 9 were great too!
@@SpacedOutReads Awesome, I've just searched up the reading order to make sure I dont miss out. I've now ordered The Lesser Devil so I can hit that before Howling Dark. Thanks for your work.
I thought kingdoms of death was a little overrated. It was great, don’t get me wrong, but it dragged a bit for me while he was a prisoner. Every chapter it’s just kind of the same thing, kept waiting for a paradigm shift and it took forever to come. Chapter 40 of disquiet gods had my jaw on the floor. Demon in white was absolute perfection.
Yea I’m definitely not going to argue any of that, that’s agreeable. I read KoD in two days while sick so I didn’t feel the drag, I just felt the journey 😅 Demon in White is elite 😍😍😍
I added Silence of Silver to my TBR and all your S tier I plan on reading next year I'm thinking. My Worst of the year was Name of the Wind 1/5. I did not enjoy this book at all, and was thankful I listened to it. Best was probably Before They are Hanged - or the First Law as a whole. Honorable mentions - Word Bearers Trilogy is all 4.5/5 Alot of Black Company are 4-5 only one 3.5 Gaunts Ghost - The Lost Omnibus was super stellar with everything hitting 4.5 This year overall has been a great success overall in comparison to my low end raters.
@@Dugrath I hope you enjoy Silence is Silver, it’s a fun afternoon read. I’m excited for you to get into Sun Eater and Bloodsworn! I haven’t tried Name of the Wind yet, but given its popularity I should probably read it as research. The Black Company is one I really want to get to, it sounds incredible
@@SpacedOutReads is it that short? I guess I didn't properly look to see how many pages it was. Yeah! Bloodsworn is happening next month I think. The sons of Gwynne are doing a bookclub of each book till the release of Fury of the Gods. Yeah, my review seems...the unpopular one, but that book wasn't for me at all. I'll be curious to see how you like it, when you get to it. Black Company is great, it just feels its age a bit? I really got attached to the characters and when it ended I felt that huge sense of loss to not be in that world or with the company anymore. (You can probably find the entire series cheap online, I think I bought mine used for 30 bucks for all of them.)
Yea, it’s like 70ish pages. Those two are the best, it’ll be great reading along with them. I’m very curious too (though not curious enough to rush to pick it up). You’ve sold me on Black Company even more now.
@@fehner27 I was too, there’s some guides out there on Reddit that dot point all the important events of each Chapter to make sure you aren’t missing anything when you read it. If not, there’s no reason to have to read this series
You mention Tales of the Sun Eater, I guess that is book 1, but you don't mention books 2 and 3 of Tales. Nor do you mention Dregs of Empire, which sits after Ashes of Man. The short stories get better with each volume. #1 and #2 have fillers that sit in Ruocchio's universe but don't all add to the overall story. #3 is very focused and adds a lot to the story. But the highlight of the novellas is Dregs of Empire. This is the story of Lorien Aristedes after his rescue of Hadrian. It's another heavy hitter and we see Lorien being ground into the dust, similar to Hadrian in Kingdoms of Death. In my mind it's easily top tier. Ruocchio knows how to write so that we don't want to look but can't turn our eyes away.
Yea I haven’t got to those ones yet, once I got to Demon in White I just smashed through all the novels. I’m super excited to read them when I do a reread, Ruocchio is brilliant!
@@BoclanBenkins The Stand is the King book I am most excited for, but I’m going to go easy and go with a shorter read next. Either Misery or Pet Semetary I think 🤔
I started with Pet Sematary followed by IT and The Stand. I think Pet Sematary is my favorite so far, but IT and The Stand have much deeper character development. Great books!
@@irishknight6893 Of Darkness and Light, Exile, Of War and Ruin, The Fall all S Tier. Then Ice and Of Blood and Fire high B Tier. How are you finding it?
@@SpacedOutReads yes The Fall,Of Darkness and light all S tiers,really loving the exile! Cant wait to read of war and ruin next! I would agree Of Blood And Fire high B very awesome,fun read! Yet to read the ice or the new like 30 page short story but bought it on kindle :) 2025 gonna be awesome new Abercrombie,Red Rising Book 7,Sun Eater Book 7 and new Cahill!
@@irishknight6893 By Blade and by Blood! Dayne is my man! (Though I can’t remember the spelling, every Dane is a different Dain lol) The Exile is chilling. There’s so many great ones coming aye!
I read both lesser devil and way of kings no way those books are even on same level imo,one is under 200 pages and one is 1K but I get it if your saying that’s best novella you ever read ?
@@irishknight6893 Yea, I definitely wouldn’t argue with you if you put Lesser Devil in B Tier. I loved a lot, and The Way of Kings is also one of my all time favourite books. I tend to forget about Storm light when I’m not reading it, but when I am it’s the best thing ever. I don’t know why that is.
@@SpacedOutReads Sun-Eater is your chosen one story. Something like Children of Time has never been done before and with Portia the best female character ever! :)
This is such a labor of love! Not sure we could rank every single read of 2024 😅 but this was so fun to watch. It’s been so exhilarating watching your sun eater journey. It’s so fun finding a series that works so well for you!
@@Krisandmads Thanks you two! I did put off editing this one for a while 😅
I’m very keen to see how you go with Sun Eater and if you continue after EoS.
Time for me to go catch up on what your Dads been reading 😅
Great video, as usual very enjoyable to watch. Disappointed with Project Hail Mary in DNF-tier but it seems you don't shy away from some controversy as you added Brando Sando there as well 😀
Thanks! Yea, I did say both of them are great reads for most people, just didn’t land for me.
Ya every sun eater book just got better as I went.
Just finish the vol 1 short stories and about to hit Queen amid ashes- very stoked to be back in the world
Such a great series right!
Great vid legend! I’ll hopefully get to lesser devils and howling dark soon to continue my journey into Sun Eater! I’ll have to work on convincing you to try Dirge so it can make the end of year tier list 😂 I think it might be your jam
Thanks @calumlott ! I hope you enjoy getting back to Sun Eater.
I have thought about it a few times, I am quite apprehensive when it comes to reading books from people I’ve talked with. Because if I end up not liking it, I go radio silence rather than say anything potentially negative 😅
The last couple I’ve tried live struggled with
@@SpacedOutReads hey man, that’s totally understandable! There’s no one book for everyone! Well it’ll always be there if you change your mind and I certainly won’t take offense if you never said anything about it haha. I’m also a person that thrives on constructive criticism. Best way to improve! Regardless, keep crushing it with these videos and I’ll let you know what I think of the next Sun Eater🤘
Thanks Cal! Happy reading to you
Gotta read Cristopher Ruocchio next year ! I started today Empire of the Vampire by Kristoff and im hooked ! So damn good ! :D
I’m so glad to hear you are enjoying Empire of the Vampire! I absolutely love it!
I just started Sword of Kaigen! I'm glad I know it has a bit of a slower end, so maybe I won't be as disappointed as I have the right expectations. Salem's Lot is awesome. What King book will you be checking out next? So glad to see Hunger of the Gods in the S Tier!!!!
@@williamgwynne I’m excited to see your thoughts on Sword of Kaigen, it’s such an interesting and fresh read, also some great Avatar water bending magic!
I think either Misery or Pet Semetary will be next.
Of course, where else does a Gwynne book belong! Bloodsworn is the whole reason I started the channel
Well, I'm adding significantly to my purchase list for the year. 😂Actually just bought Dungeon Crawler Carl from a Prime Day deal yesterday because you spoke so highly of it. I'm looking forward to it a lot.
I'm gonna throw out a recommend of my own, because i forgot all about it until I realized it got a paperback/hardcover (it was kindle/audible exclusive before), and i gotta tell someone about it LOL. "Mechanical Failure" by Joe Zieja. It's sci-fi. It's no epic, but it's a funny and easy read. Also the audio book is read by the author. idk I like when authors narrate their own books lol.
@@Tessa_Ru I hope you love DCC and it’s your style of humour, it’s very fun.
I do love it when the author narrates it too!
Not liking Project Hail Mary's humor while putting the Stormlight books in S tier is a very strange thing to me
I thought the humor/interactions in it were quite similar in style and role dynamic to the stuff in the Stormlight books that happens between certain characters, especially in book 2 and 3 (haven't read 4 yet)
Absolutely agree, the humour of some of Sandersons characters isn’t my thing at all. But Stormlight has so many other legs so stand on, the characters and plot are of the best in the genre, and the humor is very minor.
In Project Hail Mary, the whole book is humour and math.
@@SpacedOutReads Ah that's fair then
Cheers, you’re point is completely spot on though
I personally loved the sword of Kaigen, but the writing style was a bit strange
I've just started it. Agree it is a very unique style. Didn't take much for me to adapt to it though :)
Yea, I quite like the writing and loved it up to the 60% mark. For me it was the loose ends left in the plot that didn’t work well for me, going from a really action heavy plot then switching to a real character deep dive.
Damn, I had no idea there were some books to read inbetween the mainline series of Suneater... and that's a good thing ! Will have to check em out..
My top 3 reads so far this year: Empire of the Vampire, Empire of Silence (almost finished it), Will of the Many. I'm a slow reader, have read 12 books so far this year so a quarter ranking won't do me any good haha...
I agree with Sword of Kaigen, there was so much hype behind it but it didn't really hit for me neither, glad I read it but yeah I moved on pretty quickly...
@@chrisgoods Yea, there’s quite a few pieces of extra content for Sun Eater, I haven’t even read it all yet, there’s a few more short story collections and a novella I’ve got to read. So far the first short story in Vol 1 is the only essential reading, but I do rate the first two novellas.
That’s 3 really great books! I hope the other 9 were great too!
@@SpacedOutReads Awesome, I've just searched up the reading order to make sure I dont miss out.
I've now ordered The Lesser Devil so I can hit that before Howling Dark.
Thanks for your work.
That’s great to hear! I hope you enjoy the novella as much as I did!
I thought kingdoms of death was a little overrated. It was great, don’t get me wrong, but it dragged a bit for me while he was a prisoner. Every chapter it’s just kind of the same thing, kept waiting for a paradigm shift and it took forever to come. Chapter 40 of disquiet gods had my jaw on the floor. Demon in white was absolute perfection.
Yea I’m definitely not going to argue any of that, that’s agreeable. I read KoD in two days while sick so I didn’t feel the drag, I just felt the journey 😅
Demon in White is elite 😍😍😍
I added Silence of Silver to my TBR and all your S tier I plan on reading next year I'm thinking.
My Worst of the year was Name of the Wind 1/5. I did not enjoy this book at all, and was thankful I listened to it.
Best was probably Before They are Hanged - or the First Law as a whole.
Honorable mentions - Word Bearers Trilogy is all 4.5/5
Alot of Black Company are 4-5 only one 3.5
Gaunts Ghost - The Lost Omnibus was super stellar with everything hitting 4.5
This year overall has been a great success overall in comparison to my low end raters.
@@Dugrath I hope you enjoy Silence is Silver, it’s a fun afternoon read. I’m excited for you to get into Sun Eater and Bloodsworn!
I haven’t tried Name of the Wind yet, but given its popularity I should probably read it as research.
The Black Company is one I really want to get to, it sounds incredible
@@SpacedOutReads is it that short? I guess I didn't properly look to see how many pages it was. Yeah! Bloodsworn is happening next month I think. The sons of Gwynne are doing a bookclub of each book till the release of Fury of the Gods.
Yeah, my review seems...the unpopular one, but that book wasn't for me at all. I'll be curious to see how you like it, when you get to it.
Black Company is great, it just feels its age a bit? I really got attached to the characters and when it ended I felt that huge sense of loss to not be in that world or with the company anymore. (You can probably find the entire series cheap online, I think I bought mine used for 30 bucks for all of them.)
Yea, it’s like 70ish pages. Those two are the best, it’ll be great reading along with them.
I’m very curious too (though not curious enough to rush to pick it up).
You’ve sold me on Black Company even more now.
I haven't tried Malazan, yet I'm scared to try it. lol.
@@fehner27 I was too, there’s some guides out there on Reddit that dot point all the important events of each Chapter to make sure you aren’t missing anything when you read it. If not, there’s no reason to have to read this series
You mention Tales of the Sun Eater, I guess that is book 1, but you don't mention books 2 and 3 of Tales. Nor do you mention Dregs of Empire, which sits after Ashes of Man. The short stories get better with each volume. #1 and #2 have fillers that sit in Ruocchio's universe but don't all add to the overall story. #3 is very focused and adds a lot to the story. But the highlight of the novellas is Dregs of Empire. This is the story of Lorien Aristedes after his rescue of Hadrian. It's another heavy hitter and we see Lorien being ground into the dust, similar to Hadrian in Kingdoms of Death. In my mind it's easily top tier. Ruocchio knows how to write so that we don't want to look but can't turn our eyes away.
Yea I haven’t got to those ones yet, once I got to Demon in White I just smashed through all the novels.
I’m super excited to read them when I do a reread, Ruocchio is brilliant!
I've never seen anyone rank Dungeon Crawler Carl below the top of any list, wild! Audiobook required though
It’s so good, the audiobooks are fantastic
If you're reading The Stand and The Shining after Salem's Lot... damn you're in for a treat
@@BoclanBenkins The Stand is the King book I am most excited for, but I’m going to go easy and go with a shorter read next. Either Misery or Pet Semetary I think 🤔
I started with Pet Sematary followed by IT and The Stand. I think Pet Sematary is my favorite so far, but IT and The Stand have much deeper character development. Great books!
@@kyleLyfe2 They all sound so great, I do have to get back to King asap
What tier would you rank all the bound and the broken books by Ryan Cahill? About to read the exile and of war and ruin next.
@@irishknight6893 Of Darkness and Light, Exile, Of War and Ruin, The Fall all S Tier.
Then Ice and Of Blood and Fire high B Tier.
How are you finding it?
@@SpacedOutReads yes The Fall,Of Darkness and light all S tiers,really loving the exile! Cant wait to read of war and ruin next! I would agree Of Blood And Fire high B very awesome,fun read! Yet to read the ice or the new like 30 page short story but bought it on kindle :) 2025 gonna be awesome new Abercrombie,Red Rising Book 7,Sun Eater Book 7 and new Cahill!
@@irishknight6893 By Blade and by Blood! Dayne is my man! (Though I can’t remember the spelling, every Dane is a different Dain lol) The Exile is chilling.
There’s so many great ones coming aye!
Do we read just the first story on tales of the sun eater before demon in white or the whole tales from sun eater book ?
@@irishknight6893 You can read the whole thing, but the first one is what I would call a “must read”
Wheel of Timey feel 😂 Love it lol
It really does 😅 it’s Malazan writing and WoT story (kinda, not really but very classic) 😅😅
Damn,I liked Yumi as a religious person ! :))
I’m so glad to hear you had a great time with it! Though I’m now curious how you are finding EotV as a religious person?
I read both lesser devil and way of kings no way those books are even on same level imo,one is under 200 pages and one is 1K but I get it if your saying that’s best novella you ever read ?
@@irishknight6893 Yea, I definitely wouldn’t argue with you if you put Lesser Devil in B Tier. I loved a lot, and The Way of Kings is also one of my all time favourite books. I tend to forget about Storm light when I’m not reading it, but when I am it’s the best thing ever. I don’t know why that is.
I also hate Yumi, I think is one of the worst books I’ve read… and I love BS 😢
Glad to hear I’m not the only one!
Children of Time is S-Tier and way better than Sun-Eater.
It’s on the tbr, I’ll have to see
@@SpacedOutReads ´not hardcore sci-fi, more on the YA side, nut thought provoking: Scythe series by N. Shusterman
Hmmm… and that’s “way better than Sun Eater”? Have you read all the books?
@@SpacedOutReads of course, hoping for an Olivia novel and finally the conclusion in book 7. And Cassandra is an annoying character.
@@SpacedOutReads Sun-Eater is your chosen one story. Something like Children of Time has never been done before and with Portia the best female character ever! :)
Howlojg dark is overrated
First half is so mid
Depends on what you’re looking for I think