With most authors, you sort of know what you’re signing up for if you’ve read their work before. Who are some authors this rule does *not* apply to? Here are a few of mine
**Dan Simmons**
The Terror absolutely enthralled me, couldn’t put it down. I’m now mostly through The Fifth Heart and… I have no idea what’s going on (and don’t really care)
**Chuck Palahniuk**
Fight Club was edgy and nihilistic in such a fresh, original way. Haunted was gore porn, never read anything else by him after that.
**Curtis Sittenfield**
I read Prep ages ago and thought it was vapid and boring. Last year I read Romantic Comedy and thought it was vapid and boring. God knows why, I picked up American wife this year. It’s not like in my top 10 books or anything, but I thought it was interesting and I quite enjoyed it!
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**John Scalzi** – Old Man’s War is a masterpiece and one of the best sci-fi stories I have ever read. The Interdependency trilogy is a fun quick read. Redshirts is absolute garbage that reads like it was written by a high school literature teacher who happened to be a Trekkie.
Lisa Jewell, I really want to like everything she does but it’s difficult.
I loved The Night She Disappeared and it really got me into her other stuff like The Family Remains which again, I enjoyed but found the sequel (The Family Upstairs) to be a massive letdown
I’m about to start her new one, None of This Is True and I can’t help but be skeptical
Seconding Chuck Palahniuk (for the same two books!) but his writing instruction/auto-biography “Consider This” is awesome.
Naomi Novik – Spinning Silver is great, but Uprooted read like Howl’s Moving Castle fanfic and Deadly Education WAS Draminione fanfiction (although I did appreciate Gal as an atypical YA fantasy protagonist).