Book Bloggers do natter in the secret realms of the DMs. And when several of gathered last year like Voltron then Subjective Chaos was formed thanks to C from  The Middle Shelf. For the bloggers a great chance to swap book recommendations and suggest/push/bribe our fellow judges to vote for what we thought were the best books.  We don’t always agree but I find seeing how people react to books in different ways a reminder that there is a huge variety of options in what a reader is looking for.  This year saw no really clear cut winner and there was much debate and as per usual chaos but we have now agreed our winners in the various categories

This Year’s Judges/Nominators

-          C of The Middle Shelf

-          David of Blue Book Balloon

-          Hammard of Cloaked Creators

-          Hedwig

-          Imyril of One More

-          And little old me

And now the winners!! (commence trumpets)

Fantasy

The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley

Science Fiction

I Still Dream by James Smythe

Blurred Boundaries

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

Novella

Prime Meridean by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Series

Machineries of War by Yoon Ha Lee

There really was a high degree of quality in all the nominations this year (see earlier blogs in this section for the nominees) but here are some tales you should really love.  Hopefully see you all again in 2020 for round 3.