Vote for Favourite BL Book of the Year?

[ThePenitentOne]

I tried to vote for my favourite BL book of the year... Adrian Tchaikovsky's Day of Ascension... But for some reason it isn't on the list?

 

Not enough Marines in it I guess.

 

What some of your faves?

[Malkydel]

57 minutes ago, ThePenitentOne said:

I tried to vote for my favourite BL book of the year... Adrian Tchaikovsky's Day of Ascension... But for some reason it isn't on the list?

 

Not enough Marines in it I guess.

 

What some of your faves?

Day of Ascension came out in January 2022 and the ranking only runs from Feb 2022 to January 2023

Edited February 22, 2023 by Malkydel

[Kelborn]

Tough choice...of those I read/listened to:

Assassinorum: Kingmaker got my vote.

 

Good characters, amazing world building, well crafted story. There's nothing to complain about, imho.

[cheywood]

Echoes of Eternity for me, by a pretty wide margin. 

[Tymell]

Comes down to a tough call between Echoes of Eternity and The Great Angel for me (so Sangy's a winner either way). In the end The Great Angel edged it out for me, but just barely.

[theSpirea]

Ghaz all the way

[DarkChaplain]

The Wraithbone Phoenix for me.

 

But damn, it's just so utterly disrespectful that they're not even listing the authors of the books on the voting page. Says a lot about BL/GW, imo.

[Noserenda]

Definitely Kingmaker, i mean, i scanned the list and that was the only name that sparked  unconditional joy :D 

[Roomsky]

Easy Echoes vote from me...

 

BUT it should at least have had a few categories. Short novel, AOS novel, etc. Also I laughed my ass off that Ahriman 4 was just listed as "Eternal."

Edited February 23, 2023 by Roomsky

[Felix Antipodes]

While I understand that we are voting for a ‘best book’ (singular), I was a bit disappointed there wasn’t a chance to submit a first thru third option - or even a best from each line (W40K/AoS/HH/Crime, etc.  In my mind it would allow a grater range of feedback to GW/BL as regard to the preferences/likes of their customers.  After all, that’s what’s most important (so they say).

 

Having said that, I ended going with The Great Angel but could have picked any one of several others that I equally enjoyed.

[skylerboodie]

I clicked Echoes first but realised I actually thought The Great Angel was better. 

[System Sound]

Didn't read that many BL books from 2022, so Echoes get my vote.

[Nagashsnee]

Was between echoes and kingmaker, but echoes pulled ahead if only for the skitarii parts alone. 

[Fire Golem]

Echoes for me, but I didn’t actually read many at all on the list. Sigismund might have been the only other one I read, although I have a couple more I’ve not got round to yet. Edit - after the below comments, I did also read Dark City.

Edited February 23, 2023 by fire golem

[WARMASTER_]

Has to be Dark City for me! It was a suitably Grim ending to a great series - Wraight just continues to be exceptional 

 

Echoes being a close second but there’s no option for that unfortunately 

[Nagashsnee]

7 minutes ago, WARMASTER_ said:

Has to be Dark City for me! It was a suitably Grim ending to a great series - Wraight just continues to be exceptional 

 

Echoes being a close second but there’s no option for that unfortunately 

Did not even see dark city damn, that was great too.

Edited February 23, 2023 by Nagashsnee

[Scribe]

Echo.

[Urauloth]

Don't like having to chose between Echoes and Wraithbone Phoenix. That's tough.

[Krelious]

Ive been catching up on previous years readings so I was forced into picking Echoes.

[aa.logan]

I felt that I could vote for Ghazghull, since I read it the year before, which made my choice pretty difficult. 
 

Echoes? Something from Warhammer Crime? Cthonia’s Reckoning? Dark City? Kingmaker? 
 

all strong contenders, but I surprised myself and couldn’t look past the best depiction of a fall to Chaos I think I’ve read, and had to vote for The Godeater’s Son.

[DarkChaplain]

I really need to get to that one. It's a really cool premise, even though the German in me still cringes at the "hero" being nicknamed "Held" :')

[aa.logan]

1 minute ago, DarkChaplain said:

I really need to get to that one. It's a really cool premise, even though the German in me still cringes at the "hero" being nicknamed "Held" :')

If it helps, I think it’s fully intentional. I heard the author taking about his love of learning languages and using them in his writing on a podcast; and there is a deliberate irony in his choice.

[theSpirea]

11 hours ago, aa.logan said:

I felt that I could vote for Ghazghull, since I read it the year before, which made my choice pretty difficult. 
 

Echoes? Something from Warhammer Crime? Cthonia’s Reckoning? Dark City? Kingmaker? 
 

all strong contenders, but I surprised myself and couldn’t look past the best depiction of a fall to Chaos I think I’ve read, and had to vote for The Godeater’s Son.

Currently half-way done with The Godeater's Son and it's excellent. Shaping up as one of the best AoS novels

[Urauloth]

Godeater's Son is very good, yes. Van Nguyen has been consistently impressive, looking forward to seeing what he does next.

[Kelborn]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/02/black-library-book-of-the-year-the-winners/

 

Results are in and.. are somewhat surprising.

Garro won over Sanguinius for example.

 

Top three aren't a surprise and are truly well deserved!