 That's how you did. I hope you're doing good. Today, I thought it'd be really fun to chat about the 10 series I have to finish this year. It won't be a flop. I'm confident. No, the truth is... Kind of my top series TBR for this year. As many of you will know, probably my biggest reading goal this year is to finish more series. I am a, like, serial series starter. Serial series starter. That could go on merch. Serial series starter. No one copied me. I've trademarked it. My mind. Oh, it amazes me sometimes. I would constantly start series and I have a lot of series on my TBR where I've read the first book and I've not read any more. So a big goal this year is to finish a lot of them. And these are the 10 series I really want to prioritize getting done. I'm hoping by the end of the year these are all pretty much going to be finished. I've got plans for some of them. So yeah, I'm feeling good about this goal so far actually. I think I started the year on, like, 46 or, like, something like that. 45, 46 series on my TBR. I'm actually down to 35, so I only have to finish 9 to get to my series of only being in the middle of 26 series max by the end of the year. Now I am gonna start some more series this year. I haven't yet, but being realistic, I probably will start a few more. Like, a lot of you. I've contained myself thus far, but I probably will start a few more. But I'm feeling good. So even if I were to, like, start another series and just finish these 10, I would reach my goal. Okay, so first is the Farsia Trilogy by Robin Hobb. So I only have the next one. I don't have the third one in the trilogy. I've read Assassin Apprentice and Royal Assassin is what I need to read next. Now listen, they're big boys, this series, and Robin Hobb is, like, really in-depth fantasy. Really in-depth fantasy. Girlie, listen. She's a bit intimidating. She's a bit intimidating. Basically we're following Fitz, who is the bastard son of the guy who was the prince in waiting, and he kind of gets raised within the royal court, and the king figures out that he's in a unique position to basically access royal spaces without being part of the royal family, so he gets trained as a royal assassin. I really, really liked Assassin Apprentice. I gave it four stars, and I would just really like to finish this trilogy this year so that maybe I could start the Liveship series next year. I've heard that, like, Mad Ship, and I think the second one in that trilogy, what is that called? Okay, the Mad Ship is the second one. We have Ship of Magic first. I've heard Mad Ship is, like, a lot of people's favorite Robin Hobb books. So I'm really excited to get to that trilogy, but I feel like maybe one of Robin Hobb's trilogies every two years is, like, a realistic goal. So I started this one in 2021, so finishing it in 2022 and having 2023 and 2024 to read the next one. Oh my god, my life, who knows? My life is going to be, like, in 2024. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? I really, really like Robin Hobb's writing, world building, and I definitely want to get deeper into this whole world that Robin Hobb has going on, but I think it's important for me to there's a lot of, like, fantasy. Is this all fantasy? Oh my god, this is, this could, all of these series could be classes fantasy. I think I've put these on here because they're some of the more, like, intimidating ones for me to get to. Also with, I mean, most series are fantasy, that's to be honest, but with a lot of my mystery series, they're longer things that I'm not predicting to finish this year, like my Urquiporo series that I'm reading, or the Lady Hardcastle series, like, there are a lot of books, so I'm not predicting to finish them, whereas I have a lot of fantasy series that all the books are already out, so I can get to them. Oh my god, I didn't realize this was all fantasy. What the hell? Next is The Raven Cycle by Maggie Steerwater. Now, here's the thing. I have all of the books. I think this will be a series that I read in the next couple months. I didn't love The Raven Boys. I gave it three stars. To me, it felt like it was setting up the whole rest of the series. Do you know what I mean? It felt like a prequel. It didn't feel like a necessarily book in its own right. So that's why, although I only gave it like a three star, I am excited to get into the rest of the series, but I really, I don't know what to expect from it. I'm hoping it's going to get even more fantastical, kind of crazy, but I want to get attached to the characters, and I haven't really done that yet. But it's such like a staple fantasy series that so many people love, that is kind of like close to a lot of people's hearts, that I really do want to finish it, and I don't want to be in the middle of it any longer. I just want to like get it done and know what my opinion of it is, if that makes sense, because I'm kind of nervous. I'm kind of like a little bit scared. But obviously, Kayla loves this series. That's why I picked it up in the first place. I think I want to get rid of some of the older series, like predominantly on my TBR, so that it's more like current series that I'm reading. So okay, bye. Then we have, oh my god, I'm actually weak trying to hold these up. The Poppy War by I.F. Quang. Now listen, I'm fucking terrified. I don't know why, but I don't think any books terrify me like these do. I.F. Quang terrifies me. They're big. They're massive. I mean, they're very big. This is so big. It's mind-boggling. I read the Poppy War in 2020. It's been a long time. And these are some of my like, whenever I do like, oh my god, the list I'm going to do like this one, books I'm going to read. I always put them on here that I never read them, but I'm going to force myself to do so this year. It's on the list. It's on the plans for this year. So obviously in this we're following Ren who goes to like this military training academy and the Poppy War begins and yada yada yada. I don't want to say too much more than it was for anything. I.F. Quang's next book, Babble, is coming out this year and like, honestly, who am I? Who am I to like pick that up? I mean, I've pre-ordered it. Who am I to do that if I don't finish this series? Generally. My dad has read them all. He like loves them. He read them all before me. So it's time. But I'm just scared by how long they are. And the thing is, I don't like the audiobook narrator. Not anything personal. Just doesn't, I just don't like her audiobooks. Don't know why. So I can't even listen to the audiobook to get me through it quicker. So I'm going to have to read it all physically. That's not me anymore. Every book now I have to like have the audiobook. I'm fashion. I'm style. And if they can't keep up, then let's say prop. Bye, take care. Then we have, I don't know what this series is called. Is it just called The Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor? This is another one where I've read the first one and I gave it three stars. And I kind of just want to finish the rest of the series to figure out what I think of it. I really love Laini Taylor's writing, but I just, I just found the plot and the insular and the romance in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. It wasn't for me. It wasn't really for me. I am, I'm nervous to get into this, but I really love her writing so I do definitely want to finish the series off. I have, again, both of the books now. It should be pretty easy to finish off, but I think I'm going to finish something else with Laini Taylor first. We'll get into that in a second. And then next is Small Spaces by Katherine Arden. This is a middle grade horror series that Katherine Arden does, and I listen to the audiobooks of these. What is my hair doing? That's on the wrong side. Excuse me. That's very rude, isn't it? As many of you know, Katherine Arden, one of my favorite authors ever with the Varen and the Nightingale series. And I don't, like, love this series, this horror series. Like, it's fine. It's like middle grade, pretty young middle grade, pretty short middle grade, so I'm not like obsessed. But I do really want to finish it. I have the next audiobook, which is Dark Waters, and then the last in the series comes out in August, which is Empty Smiles. And this is just a series that I've really, like, put effort into finishing this year. I'm going to put effort into this year because it's easy. Like, it's like four hour long audiobooks, and I listen to it sped up, obviously. So it's like two hours of my time to finish this series. So it's like a really easy one to tick off the list. I have a lot of middle grade on my series list where I've literally only read the first one, and I don't read a lot of middle grade, so I feel like I really need to prioritize some of the middle grade ones I have. I remember, oh my gosh, you guys, I did a video two summers ago in 2020, like reading middle grade for the first time where I started three different middle grade series, and I have not read a single book in any of those series again, even though I really enjoyed them. It's just something I struggled to fit into vlogs. So the first five are all ones I have multiple books to read in the series before I finish it. But the second five are all ones that I only have one book left, because they're duologies or because I've read the other books in the series, and I decided to do this because I feel like it's realistic, like it's being realistic. If I'm putting like fucking like long series on here, it's not gonna happen, whereas if I only have to read one book to finish a lot of these series off, it's much much more likely to happen. And like, you know, 2022 is all about being kind to myself and being realistic. So that's what we're doing. One of my favorite series that I'm so excited to finish is the Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natasha Nyang. We have the final one which is Girls of Fate and Fury. This came out in like November of last year. So it hasn't been out for super long, but I'm scared. I'm really scared because I feel like Natasha Nyang is just gonna kill everyone. Like everyone's gonna die. No one's safe. But this is like a fantasy series where we follow these paper girls for the king who are basically young girls forced to sleep with the king. And the first book definitely dives into the trauma of that and how difficult that is. And I feel like the first book is really really amazing. The second book was a bit of a strange book. It had like middle book syndrome which usually I enjoy middle book syndrome. But not so much in this. I feel like it kind of meandered a bit. But I feel like the story is really gonna come to a head in the last book. We've been waiting so long, it's been pushed back and I'm just so excited. It's one of my favorite worlds. I feel like Natasha Nyang's writing is so like beautifully vivid and gorgeous and emotive and captivating. And it's like just like these queer girls like falling in love and like fighting against depression. And I just I just love it. And I'm just so excited. But I'm also I've been putting off. I almost read it a couple weeks ago and then I didn't because I'm scared. Like I feel like it needs to be the perfect moment. Oh, I just can't wait. I just can't wait. This series feels so nostalgic to me. It feels like so. I remember I read the first book. I bought it in Florida when I was on holiday there like many years ago like in 2019. And I read it there. Like the first book I picked up. I remember like I picked up loads of books I'd really been anticipating. And that one was kind of one I picked up on a whim. But I read it and I have like memories of like reading it by the pool and just being so captivated in this world. And so this this world really feels very nostalgic to me. So I'm gonna be sad I think also to let this world go. So that's why I've been putting off a little bit. Then I'm gonna finish The Stranger Dreamer duology by Laney Taylor. This one is is it falls prey to when I read this probably I think in 2020 I said I need to read music nightmares immediately. The ending I need I need to read music nightmares immediately. And then I put it off. And so I really want to get better at not only finishing now the series that I've been on my tbr for a long time but now whenever I start a series being quite intentional once I've read the first one and enjoyed it of like reading the next ones fairly quickly. That's not happening. So in this we're following Laszlo Strange who has this like he's obsessed with the mythical lost city of Weep. But then it turns out the city isn't lost and he gets to go there and it's this magical world and there's gods and it's all very interesting. And this to me is my definitely preferred Laney Taylor series. I love this one I wept like I cried like a fucking baby. I cried so much in The Stranger Dreamer. Oh my god the ending of this even though you know it's coming you just like hope it's oh they're my they're the they're the endings that get me the most when you have hope but you know the hope is misplaced and delusional but you can't help it. I just need to read it. I need to read it. So what I'm actually gonna do is I think I'm gonna read I'm gonna finish off a bigger series and then I'm gonna do a vlog where I read a couple of geologies and finish off the second books in them um because it's kind of something that takes off a lot of series in one go and I think this will be one of them because I'm very excited to finish it. Then we have The Green Hollow Geology by Emily Tesh which are very short like how have I not read this book yet? It's like it's literally a hundred pages. I think I read this towards the end of 2020 and guess what? Yeah I haven't finished it. This is like this magical story about these like beings in the forest and it's hard to explain to you don't want to spoil anything but it's very magical. It's queer, it's lovely, it's dark. Also I really like the darkness. I'm something about this cover I absolutely love. I love the ominousness of it. I love the drawing of this like abandoned cathedral. I just find it really like captivating I don't know but yeah and this one's easy because it's literally one more book and it's like a hundred and something pages. Maybe when I'm doing like a readathon or something like that this is really useful to stick in there if I get a prompt that works for it. Then we have The Song of Race and Ruin series by Roseanne A Brown. Again this is a duology and I have a sum of storms and silence to read. This is like a very vivid African inspired fantasy and very much inspired by folklore where we have these two characters who want to kill each other at the start and you have very interesting backstories. One is a princess in this in this town and I really love I find fantasy around like monarchies very nostalgic again. It has that kind of nostalgic YA feeling which I really love and so again this is on the list because it's a duology like imagine oh my god imagine when I do that video finishing three duologies how much satisfaction I'm gonna feel like sometimes when I need a mood boost I go and I count how many series I've got on the go and I'm so proud of myself. I would like to defend myself but sadly that's the truth. I feel like I'm doing really well and it's it's making me really appreciate like carrying on series. I've really been doing myself a disservice from the beauty of series which is like getting to know these characters and getting to love them. I've really been like cheating myself out of that so I'm intrigued to see where this is gonna go. The writing is very beautiful, their action pack, there's magic, there's romance, they're very vivid so yes really excited to tick this one off. And then we have The Raven's duology by Cass Morgan and Danielle Page. I have the Monarchs to read and then I'll finish the series. I actually read this when did I read this? Towards the end of last year. I think so anyway and I was super surprised by my reaction to The Raven's was. I really loved it. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it that much but it felt like just a very well plotted book. It's about this sorority of witches basically at this college and we have like a newbie perspective and then we have a perspective from one of the older girls and sorority and it's like action packed, it's got amazing magic, it's got the sisterhood, it's got great characters, great character development and I honestly I can't predict where this one is gonna go. Like it really could go so many directions. Every sisterhood has its secrets. Oh my god I don't know if I can handle any secrets. I'm really really excited to see where it's gonna go. So yeah I feel like this will be probably another one of the eologies I finished off in that video that I'm talking about. So there we have it. That is the 10 series that I definitely absolutely have to finish this year. No choice, no choice matter. I really believe I am gonna finish them all. I have good feelings about them all. Please let me know what you thought of any of these series because it's definitely gonna determine what I pick up next. Particularly tell me if you finish any of them and kind of what you thought of the resolution and the journey that the characters went on because yeah I definitely need help figuring out what order I'm gonna read them all in but thank you guys so much for watching. If you've gotten to the end comment a butterfly emoji because a lot of butterflies on the monarch. So comment a butterfly emoji down below if you've gotten to the end. Thank you so much for watching this video and I'll see you very soon in another one. Bye!