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[goseaward]

I've reread every KJ Charles book but 1 this spring, after doing the whole oeuvre last fall. Maybe this will suffice for a while? We'll see.

Anyway, for fun, I made a sorter of KJ Charles books + a selection of short stories. I was kind of surprised at how my top results went, actually--not so much the top 3 (Magpie Lord, Spectred Isle, Any Old Diamonds) but the rest (Think of England, Band Sinister, Feximal, A Seditious Affair, The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh, A Gentleman's Position, and--the real shocker--Flight of Magpies). In case anyone else would like to try it!

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[sorchasilver]

Oooh, this is fun! Thank you for sharing it.

Not too many surprises for me. The Magpie Lord is top, followed by The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh, A Case of Possession, Band Sinister and An Unnatural Vice. I'd have expected Band Sinister to be top 2, and A Case of Possession to be lower down, though.

Flight of Magpies is 6th, making the Charm of Magpies main trilogy half of my top 6, as is right and proper.

The bottom 5 is definitely accurate! ;)

[sorchasilver]

(Also, would it be OK to share a link to this in a KJ Charles fic fans group on Facebook?)

[goseaward]

Yes, absolutely!!

[sorchasilver]

Thank you, I've posted a link there.

[therru]

I was just going to ask the same thing! XD

[celli]

That was fun! Mostly it reminded me that I have books to read/reread to really determine where i stand. *g*

[therru]

Yes, I felt that I was probably being a little unfair to the books I haven't reread in a long time.

[aurumcalendula]

Neat!

[therru]

I did it twice -- I hit "both" too many times the first time, and then I accidentally clicked away the whole thing and had to redo it, and the second time I made an effort to actually pick one over the other, and the results were rather different. The second time was much more in line with how I actually feel -- Spectred Isle at the top, followed by Secret Casebook, followed by the Magpie Lord trilogy, followed by Band Sinister. I was probably a bit unfair to Slippery Creatures since I've only read that once, and KJ's books tend to grow a lot upon rereading, when you notice all the details and the careful characterisation and plotting. But maybe also because it's just the first book in an incomplete series.

[sea_changed]

Dropping in late to say that this was wonderfully accurate; my top rated were A Seditious Affair, A Fashionable Indulgence, Wanted, a Gentleman, A Gentleman's Position, Think of England, The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh, Band Sinister, and Unfit to Print--which is more or less exactly how I would rate them off the top of my head, particularly the first five. Extremely diverting, 10/10; thank you for creating and posting!