June 20: Top Ten Series I’ve Been Meaning To Start But Haven’t (topic originally done March 2013) — anyone else have a mile long list of series to start like I do??
I’ve tried to pick series that have been out for a while or at the very least have a couple of instalments already out, so I’ve ignored a lot of recently released first instalments which I want to read as well. I’ve put a couple of points for each that have intrigued me but feel free to correct any misassumptions and tell me which series are/ aren’t worth the time.
Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews
* Urban Fantasy
* Female protagonist
* Magic vs. Technology
Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins
* Middle Grade
* Adventure/ Fantasy
* Hidden underground world
Earth’s Children by Jean M. Auel
* Historical Adventure
* Uncommon time-period: Ice Age
* Recc’d by a friend I trust
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
* Alice in Wonderland retelling
* Darker, more realistic take?
Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman
* Dystopian
* Organ collection
* Fight the System
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
* Epic Fantasy
* Being adapted for TV with Lin-Manuel Miranda
* Recc’d by a friend I trust
Taj Mahal Trilogy by Indu Sundaresan
* 1577 India
* Why can’t I find a Kindle copy anywhere *sob*?
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
* Wizard of Oz Retelling
* Good guys are bad guys?
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
* Emotional sucker punch
* Unusual format
* Sci-Fi Dystopian
Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier
* Ancient Ireland
* The Wild Swans retelling
* All the feels
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
* Gorgeous covers
* Loads of rec’s
There are quite a few in this list that I want to read as well! I did read the first two books of Sevenwaters, and loved them 🙂
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🙂 They do sound really good but for some reason I hadn’t heard about them til recently.
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Dorothy Must Die has been on my shelf a long time. I love Gregory Macguire’s Wicked series, but never got started with DMD.
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I love the Wicked musical but was less keen on the book, so hopefully DMD will give me my Oz fix. XD
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Great list! I really like the Kate Daniels series! I hope you’ll enjoy it too! Really want to read Daughter of the Forest as well! I’ve heard such good things about her books! I haven’t heard about the Taj Mahal Trilogy yet, but it looks amazing, I’ll have to add it to my TBR!
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Thanks!
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OMG I LOVED the Kate Daniels ones. They aren’t necessarily the best and I haven’t read them in forever, but when I was in College my roommate and I devoured these. ALSO I love the Sevenwaters one, I mean the first one totally captivates you and the next ones are just great. I haven’t read those in a while either though 😦
I’m with you on Illuminae and the Partik Rothfuss ones 😀
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Sometimes the pulpy ‘not the best’ series are the ones that really suck you in for more books, cause they’re not as much work to read. XD
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I didn’t even know that Gregor the Overlander was a 5 book series! I’ve finished The Looking Glass Wars and started The Illuminae Chronicles but most of these others can go on my haven’t started list. Haha! 🙂
Stacy Renee @ Lazy Day Literature
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From what I’ve seen today, I think unfinised/unstarted series are bookbloggers secret shame.
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Illuminae! ❤ The Illuminae Files books are sooooo good. Here is my T10T!
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I’ve heard such good things!
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I read the first Kate Daniels book last year and really enjoyed it. I can’t wait to get back into it.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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It sounds fun 😊
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Great list! I read the Earths Children series as a teenager and I absolutely loved it. I’ve recently put it back on my TBR shelf so that I can reread it sometime in the near future.
You can check out my Top Ten Tuesday HERE
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Thanks 🙂 It looks really interesting.
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The Unwind series has been on my TBR for a LONG time (well actually, I didn’t KNOW it was a series until recently, so the first book has been on my TBR at least!). I read the first Dorothy book and MEH. Then I read the first book in her other series, Stealing Snow, and I was like NO!!! So I think I’m gonna chill on Danielle Paige for a while. I haven’t read Gemina yet. I’m a bad blogger 😦 BUT I didn’t think Illuminae was worth THAT much hype. It was good and I liked the format, but the characters weren’t amazing or different in any way to me. I hope you like it better than I did!!
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Thanks for the advice! 😊 I’m going to need a way to narrow down which to read first.
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I also have been wanting the start the Kingkillers series but get so intimidated by their size! lol Great list! Also I don’t think Ive ever commented this but I love your blog name!
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Aww! Thank you 😊😘
Ive seen a lot of people say the size of Kingkiller is the problem. Maybe splitting it up between other reading will help?
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The Red Queen covers are great. I remember when the first book came out and I made a note to buy it. And I still haven’t! Some day!
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It’s such a simple and effective design.
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I hear non-stop glorious things about the Unwind series but I still haven’t snagged it. The Red Queen however…hot damn that is a good series. It seems like just another dystopian trilogy with roots in the Hunger Games but its got some unique elements that make it worth taking the plunge.
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Unwind gets such good reviews, I really need to get a copy.
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The Unwind books are so good, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! Red Queen was decent but I haven’t felt the need to pick up the sequels yet. Dorothy Must Die is on my TBR.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/20/top-ten-tuesday-112/
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I think Unwind or DMD is going to be my next read. This TTT has bumped them up my list again.
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