 Welcome to part two of my tier ranking all the books that I read in 2021. Um, I have not in the interim figured out any or a lot more than I had figured out before about how to screen record things better. So we're gonna just keep adding and we're gonna do our best and um off we go. Let's do the rest and I'm never gonna do tier ranking again because I hate tiering. So off we go. Let's do the rest. Okay, so where were we? The Howling Dark is immaculate as is the whole Sun Eater as you will as I think I said last time. 100,000 kingdoms between immaculate would read again. I would definitely read it again. It's definitely at least that level. Is it immaculate? I'm gonna say yes it is. I am legend. Um, I was this picked for me to read for my patrons and um it was interesting to read it as a student of the genre but um like it's very very dated so adequate I would say. Infernal I barely remember anything about. I just remember being very disappointed. I think it was a I think the beginning was very compelling so like the character like wakes up and doesn't know who he is or what he is or where he is and I thought that was handled very very well because that could be a tricky thing to do but then after that when we actually get into the meat of the plot and we kind of know who we are now and what we're doing it completely lost me. I don't get how you can do so well with the tricky part and then fail at the normal part. I have like originally I don't get it did not mean what I mean here but it's just whatever there are no rules. Inheritance of Arcadia Divina I thought was entirely adequate. I did not hate it but I did not think it was amazing. To make it in I would read that again. I've been really enjoying reading Daphne de Moray. To make it in was I think my least favorite but I really enjoyed that. A Lady Midnight was I'm kind of put in I don't get it because I didn't hate it but like the way that people talk about the Dark Artifices about how Sandra Claire like she's finally like this is the best thing she's ever written like this is it. And so I was like really hyped for it because like I like the infernal devices so I was like everyone says the Dark Artifices like is truly now like her final form. I think the infernal devices was better so I'm gonna. My Star United Kings would read it again and I will be in March. The last final girl why? Why would you write it in that format? Why would you torture me with that? Why? The last house on Needless Street um it's more than adequate but I don't know if I would read it again. I guess I would read it again. Well I guess we'll put it there. It's fine. The last thing else I would definitely read that again. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It's short stories not a full novel and Agnes Christy's really hit and miss for me but I really had a good time with that. Then The Lesser Devil um I would read that again. It's not immaculate like the rest of the sub-gator. This is the short story or the novella that takes place like elsewhere but during the chronologically during the events of Empire of Silence lesson inventions I don't get it. This was like quite hyped as like YA Dark Academia and like a very good YA Dark Academia and I don't think it was very good YA or a very good Dark Academia. Then The Lost Apothecary was entirely adequate. It was what I expected. I got what I expected. I don't really haven't really thought about it much since. Macbeth why? Know what you know what hours of my life that I will never get back? Because why is that book so long? Who let Jonas Barri tell Macbeth? Did he did he have a design of things saying he'd actually ever like read Macbeth? Because sir Macbeth is like one of the shortest plays. Why is your book this long and this offensive and this stupid? I just should have done that. The actual Macbeth would read it again. It's not my favorite Shakespeare play. It's not even one of my favorites. It's a good one and I would read it again. Uh which harm is this? The mad ship? Yeah the one I just read. Oh mad ship. Is it immaculate? Like it's on the fence between would read it again and immaculate but now I'll be rising. I don't know about read it again. I did really like it but I'm gonna have to say it's adequate. It's it's on the high end of adequate but I don't think I would read it again. Not in any hurry anyway. Marvelous light? I don't get it. I it was my fault the blades and bodysurfers added this to what we were reading in December and um well in the first place I don't understand why it was pitched the way it was and it was not released by um a romance imprint. If it had been released by a romance imprint and pitched on the romance I would have been like yeah no I'm not gonna read that but it was pitched as like a fantasy with a strong romantic current as John Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Red, White, and Royal Blue and it is no it is just a romance and not a very good one in my opinion so I don't get why people like it and I don't get why I was sold like that. Mary Shelley Club? I don't know if I would read it again. I did enjoy it and I I didn't enjoy it very much to begin with but I ended up enjoying it so adequate. Master of Gin was painfully adequate. I liked it better than the novellas but it's still it's it's so far from hitting the mark so far from living up to the potential of that premise that I'm like merchant of Venice would read it again. I have revisited that play multiple times. Middle game? I don't get it. I feel like that book is really hyped and the cover's really cool. Um it was I liked it in the beginning but why did it go off the rails? Miss Perrigan's home for peculiar children? I don't know why I said it like that. It was adequate. I had higher expectations for it. It's a little bit style over substance but it was fine. The monstromologist was likewise. I liked it better than Miss Perrigan's but um I mean it's like a it's a pretty horrifying YA mystery thriller in like a historical setting. I had a good time with it. I really really did. Oh I liked it but I wouldn't read it again. My cousin Rachel I would read that again. That was really really good. I think I said at the time that it might be my favorite demoria but also it was the only one that I read without already knowing the plot because I had seen adaptations of Jamaica and of Rebecca already before reading it. So now that I've had more time to sit on it I might like Rebecca more than my cousin Rachel but I did really really like oh my cousin Rachel. Nevermore I would read that again and I probably will in anticipation of the release of the next one. Neverwhere. Neverwhere. Nevermore. Is this alphabetical? This is alphabetical isn't it? That's the order we're doing this in. How long are they taking me to get that out? Neverwhere. I have read it twice and I will probably read it again. Um actually it's one of my least favorite games. I like it but I don't start us but I don't love Neverwhere but I'll read it again. New Boy. I was it was adequate. I think there's only gonna be one Hogarth Shakespeare that I'm gonna put higher than adequate. Um I was quite led down by it both because the book itself like it almost did did a good job at retelling Othello but then it made some really bizarre choices and honestly like I think a much more successful retelling of Othello that does the thing of setting it at a school with students is the movie O from the 90s. It was fine. The Ninth Circus? I don't get it. I don't understand why people love it. Talk about style over substance. That is just the whole book is just like a wish list of like a fun magical venue that this author wants to be in and then was like oh I guess I should have a plot in there somewhere maybe a little bit and Northern Wrath was painfully adequate. I was really hyped for that because it's a again a Norse viking type thing but it's like the same problem I have with Forever King where it's like vikings but there's like gods actively like roaming around participating in the story. That really irks me. I don't even know why. I don't even have a good reason for why. It just does. Nosferatu? I liked it but it was way too long which is why I like maybe I'd read it again. That's why I wouldn't is because it's too long. Like by the story itself like I would revisit that but it's self-fucking long. I guess if enough time passed it's a grudging would read it again. One by one my wreath wear. I really enjoyed it but I wouldn't read that again. Othello? I love it. It's Immaculate. It's my favorite Shakespeare tragedy. Outlawed was adequate. I'm about to run out of space again. Over the Woodward Wall? I don't get it. I mean I get it. Like at first I really liked it and it's like a middle game. There's like a children's book that they reference as existing and this is that children's book except that it's not a children's book. It's a series which I didn't know when I started it and it seemed odd that it would be since like there is a book called Over the Woodward Wall that is referenced in the middle game not a series. So it feels like a cash grab to me but yeah I liked it to begin with. It had this like whimsical Alice in Wonderland nonsense kind of quality but it just it very much went off the rails. What we need on vacation was adequate. Not nearly as good as Beatrice. I'm running out of space again. What am I gonna do? I run too many books. Okay um Reciplicus? Oh that was the end of the Ryuria revelations. Portrait of a Scotsman? Why? Why would you think Weathering Heights is like an ideal like romance? Why would you tell the story the way that you did? Why? That would have gone on my worst of the year if I hadn't filmed it before reading it. Practical Magic? I don't get it. That is so well loved. There is just like there's literally not a plot. People complain about first line on having a plot. Practical Magic doesn't have a plot. The Queen's Gambit was adequate. I enjoyed my time with it but like I would read it again. Radical Act of Free Magic isn't as good as declaration but I would read that again. Raven King? I would read that again for sure. As I said I would read or I guess I said that in part one but I would read the whole Raven Cycle again. I guess we're gonna make this tinier again. Cheapest price. Okay we're nearly there. Um Red Country? I would read it again. It's one of my least favorite in the first law. I will read it again this year so happy lying if I say I wouldn't read it again. Redwall? I would read that again. I have loved revisiting Redwall. I read a bunch of the Redwall books when I was a kid that's why I read it again now. Rain and Ruin? I would read that again. Bethany picked that for me as well. Um so of the four it was like two no's and two yeses because I put yeah I think of the books you picked for me uh two of them went in why two of them went in would read again so I think that's a win right? Have we not gotten to any of the ones that Alan? Oh Guns of the Dawn Alan picked that for me and guards guards. Okay we have done some some Alan picks. Then oh god so small that I can't even see what this is. The Return of the King? The Return of the King. Uh that's pretty immaculate. I probably thanks to Andy Serkis but that was just kids. A Rogue of One Zone was uh adequate I guess. It seems high considering what else I put in adequate but like I didn't have a huge problem with anything and I just thought it was boring. Royal Assassin? Ruin and Rising? I guess I'll read all the Christian books again. The Secret of Chimneys was adequate. I wasn't like great crispy but I didn't hate it. It was fine. Selenicens was equity. Shadow of the Bone helped read it again. Uh Shadow in Summer I don't get why I almost lost so much. Uh Shadow of the Torchver? Same with uh with Cloud the Consiliator like I think I need to read it again. There's a lot to the book of the new song. In fact I read that's in here somewhere. We're gonna get to it pretty soon. It starts with an S. The Sword of the... No I already did Sword of the Lictor. Did I? No. Yeah anyway the Sword of the Lictor is right here. I read that pretty quickly because uh I had a lot of books to get through in that month and I definitely would need to reread that and I kind of just want to go back to the beginning of the book that I just saw. And because I want to read the fourth one but before I do I think I want to like marathon it. Like I want to read the first three and then immediately read the fourth one. Shadow of what was lost? Um I don't get it. I don't get why people love the series. I don't get why you would use a beautiful orange cover for such a not great book. Shadow of Night? I mean Disago and Wire hours. I kind of wanted hours of my life. It was pretty painful to get through that. And I still read the third one because of the show. Because I've read the book before watching the show for every season. This is the Discovered Wishes series. Um so like I knew I'd hate the third one. I was like maybe I maybe I'll hate it less. Hate it at worst. It's been progressively worse. All right now I'll just put it in why. Because like honestly the whole time I was reading it I was like why are these people so dramatic? Why is this like weirdly anachronistic? Why? Why? Why? Why? Sharpen's would read it again and I will. Ship of Magic? Um pretty immaculate. It's gonna go immaculate. Okay so Shylock is my name is my favorite of the whole cards. And Shylock is my name is kind of like if Joe Abercrombie wanted to retell the Merchant of Venice is kind of the five. So I thought that was pretty good. Um I would read it again in the Asian store. I will read it again. Uh Silent Patient. Um it was adequate. Like I think it's a decent thriller. It's got a lot of flaws. Like I enjoyed my time with it. Like the experience of reading it was an enjoyable one but it's not very good. Six of Crows. It's called A Great Pleasant. Um I would read that again. It's called A Great Pleasant but they're just like really fun. Skyward? It's not immaculate but I would read that again for sure. I had a really good time with Skyward. Then Small Spaces by Katherine Arden was like really really disappointing. I don't get how the author of Baron the Nightingale and then this book that also is quite hyped. I don't understand how that was so not great. Um it was good. Starless Sea I don't really don't get it. I don't get why people love it. I like it even less than Night Circus. Seriously this lady needs to just be a party planner. Stone of Tears. I kind of want to put it in immaculate but I feel like people will kill me. In the fifth season I would put an immaculate. Um Stone Sky. I still get five stars. I think the broken earth is immaculate but the individual installment can't quite. Storm of Swords. Strange Casey Lockhamist's daughter was totally adequate. Not nothing to write a home about. Sword of Kagan was adequate. Nothing to write a home about. Magnus Chase. I don't get the love for Rick Riordan or for Magnus Chase or by extension for Percy Jackson because I'm assuming Percy Jackson has pretty similar vibes and tone. I just I don't get it. Um and then this is the Sword of the Lictor. Um would read again slash need to read again. This is so tiny. I I want you to be impressed with my ability to read. Oh Taryn Wanderer. Um yeah I would read Pardane. The whole of Pardane again. So it's just gonna all go and would read again. Tarnant Wildtall Hall would read again. Kind of want to put an immaculate because it's kind of the best brown tape book that I've ever read. Immaculate seems like slightly too much for it but I'm gonna put it there. What the hey. And brown tape doesn't get enough love. So here or now you're going in immaculate ma'am. The Ancestor was adequate. It was kind of a weird twist. It's interesting but it was it was kind of weird. The X-Hex. Why? Why why why would anyone want to read that? The Gunslayer was adequate. Especially after like I might even put it in would read it again because I would read it again. I like people are really proud of me to hate that and that's probably like it probably benefited a great deal from those low expectations but like I enjoyed it and I think being more because I do plan to go on the dark tower and I think revisiting the Gunslayer would also be rewarding. So anyway the heroes gotta read it again. The Ivies was adequate. I had a good time with the Ivies but it wasn't ground breaking or anything. The Maidens likewise was it had a lot of problems to be frank but it was I had a decent time reading it. The Shining? I don't get it. That book is so long and it really kind of lost me there towards the end so I don't I don't get it. And it definitely wasn't scary. The Tempest is adequate. Definitely not one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. The Wolf? Read that twice in 2021? Is immaculate? Things and Jars? Adequate. Oh the Thirteen Bandsy? Kind of forgot I read that. I would read that again. It's a little dated so the facts in it are a little bit out of date but it's very interesting. Thunderhead? I would read that again and I kind of maybe want to read Science and Thunderhead again before going on with the toll. I don't know. It's so pretty fresh. Tagana? I don't mind my patrons don't lie. Trigger Warning? I would read that again for sure. Some very good stories in there. Trouble with Peace? Is immaculate? Turn of the Key? I would read that again. I really enjoyed that. The Two Towers? I would read that again. Unbroken? Vesperteen? We have always lived in the castle? I enjoyed that. I don't know if I'd read it again though so I'm gonna put it in adequate. Widow of Rose House? I didn't hate it. Didn't love it. Winter of the Witch? I'm gonna read that again. Then oh Jesus Christ. Um this is The Winter's Tale? The actual Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare? Is adequate? It's a weird one. Winter Tide by Michael J. Sullivan which is the second-class rare area book is adequate. Wisdom of Crowds is Immaculate? Witchmark is and Witch's Heart was a little less than adequate if I'm honest but we'll put it in adequate. I kind of forgot I read this but when the world ends or where the world ends was actually pretty good but I don't think I'd read it again so adequate. Wondersmith I would for sure read again and I will and last but not least year one by Dora Roberts was. I was trying to go faster there at the end because my camera was about to run out of battery and then just as I was beginning my outro. So let me know in the comments down below your thoughts and feelings about what I read in 2021 about how I ranked it um whatever you want to let me know. I post videos on Saturdays. Other random houses I'll definitely send a day so like and subscribe. Join my Patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you.