 Place your bets now as to how many of these I'm actually going to finish. Do you have faith in me? I don't know. Hello my loves, welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to be chatting about the series that I am hoping I'm going to finish this year that I really want to finish this year. So if you've been around a long time you'll know that a big goal, particularly last year, was to finish a lot of series to get down how many series I'm currently reading because I have a tendency to read the first book in a series and then never continue. Okay, I don't know why. I would like to defend myself but sadly that's the truth. No no why because when I read sequels I love them. I don't know what's wrong with me. My goal this year is just to have a net negative with series so just to finish more than I start which sounds easier than it is because I already started two series this year and finished none. So I don't know how well we're gonna do but yeah I thought it'd be fun to do a video just chatting about the series that I'm hoping, fingers crossed that I'm gonna finish this year. Actually six are ones that I'm hoping to finish and four are ones I'm hoping to get up to date with. They are ongoing series but ones that I want to like get caught up with. So I think without further ado let's just get into the first book. So the first series that I want to finish I actually don't own the Second and Third book yet but it's a series that I finished at the end of last year and I just really want to like get it gone you know like it's the kind of series that I want to read quickly. Bare Town by Frederick Beckman is the first book in this series. I believe the Second and Third are us against you and the winners. We're at this ice is it hockey? I think it is hockey is that the the sport? That's a beautiful very flattering shot but she's so stupid. Yeah we're in this town where hockey is this big thing it's like this ice that a town in Sweden I'm pretty sure. The town's hopes and the town's happiness very much hinge on the hockey team and the particular like I think the teen boys hockey team is doing very well and then an event happens which obviously Snopsis doesn't mention the events so I don't typically but they kind of divides the town and divides loyalties and it was just a beautifully written book I thought all the character studies in this were amazing because this this series has a lot on like emotional connections between people and what have you I do want to kind of finish it this year so I'm hoping to get my hands on the Second and Third book soon and tick it off the list. Next is the Forgotten Women series by Jing Sheng so I have the artists and the scientists left to read I have read the leaders and the writers so these are non-fiction books telling the stories of women throughout history that have been forgotten I have spoken about this many times but I love women women I love women and women's history and I think it's something that's very important that we learn about so these are these beautifully illustrated non-fiction books following these women and it has about maybe three pages about them every single time my favorite one was the leaders as much as I love obviously authors the writers for me was a bit like one note do you know what I mean so I'm hoping that the artists and the scientists won't be because what I liked about the leaders was that there was a lot of variety in what the people were involved in whereas the writers that felt like everyone was kind of doing the same thing so I'm hoping these ones will be have a greater variety but yeah I just think this is something really important to read and I would like to finish off the series they are really quick reads they're all like 200 pages long but obviously they have these illustrations in them I mean look it's so beautiful I always think the artists for these do such a good job and all the different oh I love them so cool so yes hoping to get this series these last two finished off one that I planned to finish in January but I didn't quite get around to is the Themis file so this is the second one Waking Gods and the one that I still have to read is Only Human I love the audiobooks for these if you're gonna read these I would recommend the audiobooks they are full cast this series I can basically tell you nothing about because I only ever give the synopsis of the first book but like the first 60 pages of the first book like I really don't think you should know much going into this series but it's a sci-fi let's just say a giant I think it's a giant hand is discovered that's made out of materials that we can't make that kind of stuff out of and sciency stuff from there and the whole books are told through these interviews with this kind of nameless figure who presides over everything who seems to have very important connections seems to rank above the president of the United States and even by the end of the first book the plot is so different than what I just told you let alone the second and third this one is so I mean I thought the direction the second one went in was great I really loved the route that went down I thought was really interesting I've heard not as many good things about the third one what I love garbage I've heard not as many good things I'm a little bit nervous about the third one because also you know with sci-fi uh characters are gonna die and I'm I'm not yeah with who's left I'm not sure how I'm interested I'm gonna be so I don't know but the audiobooks are always fun I think the actors act like the narrators oh they put their into it let's just say that like they oh it's so good I think their acting is incredible so hopefully I might actually start this this week I might start this this week and then I can finish a series my first series I'm like yeah another one there's going to be pretty easy for me to finish and I have to do it is the teedragon series I have the tapestry and festival left to read I think festival is the second book but it's a prequel and then tapestry is the third book these are beautiful gorgeous gorgeous graphic novels I'm obsessed with them I well I read the first one I was obsessed with it and they're the kind of books that I just keep saving for the perfect day I'm like oh that is that has to be the perfect day when I'm in the best mood but I need to finish it this year they're just perfect they're perfect and I want to give them what they deserve and not no day is ever the perfect day but maybe for like some kind of readathon I will pick these up if you're getting into cozy fantasy this is the graphic novel that I would point you towards it's that kind of thing we have these teedragons that like help they like grow stuff they'll be booty and we're following different characters in this related to that and it's just like comforting warm cozy I can't wait to one day read these to my future children that's like what I think about I'm reading there I'm like oh my god like imagine sitting down with your future child I'm reading this anyway that's a little bit weird but you guys are so weird oh my god you guys are so weird I know everything is weird okay this next series is a finish it this year or I am DNFing it I'm giving myself a year's note because I sometimes I just when I've worked my brain up to reading a series I don't like DNFing it so anyway it is the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy I never know which of the two I've got to read are the second and third I always forget this is the second Days of Blood and Starlight is the second Dreams of God and Monsters is the third so I spoke about I think what what video was it in was it in my reacting to my year goals was it in my I can't remember what video it was in but I spoke about how I have been debating DNFing this series because I didn't love the first one but I don't know I do love Lady Taylor's writing so I'm kind of hoping I could still get something out of this so I have to finish this series this year or DNF it can I give you a good synopsis of the first one not really Karu has managed to keep her two lives in balance oh yeah she's like an art student and she's an errand girl to this monstrous creature is that brimstone a guy called brimstone yeah and it's like this dark world and doors to different wild style opening I'm pretty sure anyways I have to finish this year or I am DNFing that's the truth of the matter it's one or the other and then the final series that I'm going to finish this year is the Stool King Dripper series I have read the first two the next one I need to read is escaping from Houdini and then I don't own the last one yet what is that capturing the devil yeah I don't own that one yet this is Satan's work yeah this is now the oldest series that I am currently reading that I started the longest time ago and I would just like to tick it off the list and finish it it's sitting there two books left to read it can't be that hot in this we're following Augie Rose and Thomas Cresswell and they've got like a romance and they're solving mysteries in Victorian England well the second one's on England is this one you know yeah this is London these I love the premises premise I of but they always fall a little bit short for me I'm not sure if I love Kameniskako's writing I love her ideas but like elements I love about this they are the star chapters I know this is basic okay I know I'm easily bought but like there's little pictures of stuff at the start of chapters wow I love that kind of thing so I love Victorian mysteries like any kind of murder mystery or mysteries set in Victorian London like that is my kind of thing I love that I was deaf I was very into Victorian history growing up as a kid I was convinced for a while I was convinced my job but I was older was gonna be the I don't know if you have this in other countries but like actors who go around hosting workshops pretending to be Victorian that was gonna be my job so I love the era I think it's so it lends itself particularly well to the mystery genre you know you think of dark grungy dirty Victorian London I should love this and this is I'm pretty sure set on the Titanic right no not the Titanic so anyways I definitely think I'll be able to finish this series this year if I set my mind to it okay so those are the six that I want to finish and then the next four a series that I want to get caught up on this year first is my pride and joy the lady hardcastle mystery series I have read the first five I don't own the next one yet but I'm gonna get them they're only like four pound for Amazon so I'm just gonna get them I love this series I love it I gave the most recent one five stars it was so good I also gave in the market for murder five stars and I think these two four stars and that one are 3.5 but the audiobooks for these they're so good I love the audiobooks for lady hardcastle mystery series so in this we're following lady hardcastle and her maid flow they were once spies together um but now they've retired to the English countryside but they have retired to the murder hot spot of the world basically in the town that they live and they just get up to solving murders and solving mysteries together for the local constabulary is that a word and we read from close perspective the audiobooks the books are so humorous they're so fun they're so comforting and I want to try and read I think there's how many more is there out that I haven't read maybe four I want to try and read them like in around the time that they're set so I think the next couple are set in the summer and then I think maybe the next one set in October so I'm gonna try and read them throughout the year roughly when they're set because this one was set in January and I had a lot of fun reading it around that time so yeah that's the plan I love these I would really like to just get caught up on them reading this the start of the year made me realize just how much I love them and maybe want to dedicate more time I don't usually vlog these because like I'm so deep in the series at this point but it just made me remember how much I love this series and how wonderful they are so yeah the next series is one that I only have to read one book to get caught up on and that is the nighthouse alex stand series I need to read hellbent next yes yes I'm debating reading this next week I don't know don't hold me to it oh no it's a hard book anyways um I don't know if I'm going to a little bit nervous but anyways this is the sequel to nighthouse where we're following alex stern who worked what was she in what university is it again Yale she's kind of in charge of supervising the secret societies there and she gets wound up in loads of stuff and I just love it I love it this is my opinion isley bodega's best stuff more or no six of crows in cook kingdom bit more iconic but this is above shadow and bone this is above king of scars it's so gross I need to read this I've waited so long and now I am holding off out of fear so yeah I might read this next week will I do it maybe not maybe I will but I kind of want to read it while the hype is still there so I don't know but I can't believe that this was originally gonna be like seven books and now it's gonna be a trilogy like Lee how could you do that to us how could you do that to us let's not talk about that because I will get upset oh almost dropped the book next series that I would like to get caught up on is the singing hill cycle by Nevo I don't own the next one yet well the one that's just come out which is into the riverlands I've read the first two and then at the end in September I think this year uh there's a new one coming out I think called mammoths at the gate so I would like to read both into the riverlands and mammoths at the gate this year in this series we're following a cleric called G who kind of goes around and gathers stories it gets people to tell them stories and collates them basically so we're following a different story a little short story each time and I find that this series really is a love letter to the telling of stories and how that's been passed down orally through generations on the different methods of storytelling I always love so I love Nevo's writing and these are very short books so they are not hard to get caught up on and then the final series that I want to get caught up on this is kind of another get caught up on or DNF is the pinch of magic series by Michelle Harrison so I don't own the next couple books in this series but I'm debating not getting them physically and just listening to them audibly this is a middle grade fantasy series where we're following these sisters in this first one you're seeing how they've kind of been trapped by this curse blame assuming that the next books kind of go off in these different directions at the moment I think there's three more but I don't know if that last one is the last book or if there's going to be more in the series I don't know I really did enjoy this like the whimsy the fantasy the sister relationships but I just haven't been picking up the middle grade series that I have started so I do want to try and make this one a priority to get caught up on even if that is just listening to audiobooks and not really the books physically okay everyone that was the series that I want to finish or get caught up with this year let me know how you think I'm going to do I think these are all realistic I think I'm definitely going to finish at least most of the ones that I wanted to finish so yeah let me know down below what you thought of any of these series that you've read I would love to know if you've gotten to the end of the video comment a star emoji I don't know I love a good star emoji comment any of the star glittery emojis down below if you got to the end thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video bye