 Hey everyone welcome back to my channel, I hope you're well. At the start of the year I made a video sitting right here called something like the book series I need to finish in 2020 and I said I would come back and I would react to it and that's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna go back and watch that video and see how many of those book series I have finished. I really have a bad feeling about this. I know we've got a couple weeks of 2020 left but I don't think I'm gonna finish any more series this year. Like I'm thinking about the books I'm set to read this year. I don't think any of them finish series and I also can't think of many series I do have to finish so like I'm quietly confident about this but I know it's probably gonna go terribly. Like I know I'm probably gonna lose. This is a competition with myself. Before we get into it make sure you subscribe if you haven't already and ring the bell button. That would make me so happy. So when did I make this video? Hang on. I need to connect my earphone. This was posted February 13th. Let's start. I swear that people die. But I'm like oh it's like hard did. Not gonna talk about book series yet but it's already not a start off great. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you as always for being here. Today we're gonna be... Oh okay first things first. I was like way too nice. I feel like in all of my earlier videos I was always too nice. I feel like in the past couple months I've been able to show even more of me and like sarcasm and stuff. I just feel like in these earlier videos I'm a bit more softly spoken and I'm just like you know. This is a video I hope to come back to at the end of the year and see if I've managed to finish all of these series. There is quite a lot here so hopefully I will be able to get through all of these. So the first series which I definitely want to complete in 2020 is The Diviners series by Little Boy. I own books one to three of this already. I have them all down here somewhere and book four is just about to come out when I'm filming this. It's not out yet. I like this quite a bit. I gave it four stars the first book in the series but I've heard a lot of people say that it improves as it goes along. Okay we're just gonna stop that there for a second. So I have read the first three in the series this year. Like I have at least done that. I had read The Diviners at the time in this video. I gave this four stars. I gave a layer of dreams. I think like a 4.5 or 4.75 it was very close to being a five and then I gave before The Devil Break Shoe I think like a 2.5 or was that just me being harsh? Maybe it was a three. Before The Devil Break Shoe was just such a disappointment for me because layer of dreams had been so good. I feel like the series lost a lot of what made it so good on this one. A lot of the characters just went on weird tangents. A lot of the characters we've become really attached to in books like Layer of Dreams left. Like they just weren't, they were still there but they just weren't important, notable. Remember that? Tread. The story was all over the place. It was just not good in my opinion and I've heard from a lot of people, particularly I watched a vlog from Nicole the other day and she gave it like one star, King of Crows the last book in the series. I don't own that so like technically I have read all of the series that I own. I do want to get King of Crows very very soon just so I can tick this series off because you know like I've said I do love finishing series. Like I find such pleasure and such joy in finally being done with series. I am a bit nervous for it because I have heard a lot of bad things. Like I think it's people's least favorite in the series. Even people who love all of the books up until then don't really love King of Crows so I am just going to kind of be reading it to finish the series. I don't have super high hopes so that's a no. That is a failure first out the bat but I have at least read three and I've already got one left. That's not like terrible but let's be honest it's not great either that the first series that I wanted to finish I haven't. Like I have read 130 books this year. However I'm not made time to just finish that series. The mind boggles. I do not understand. So do you think I deserve better than that? Yes. The next series is one that I have been so excited to get through for so long and that is the Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natata and Yang. This is obviously the first in the series. Okay. And I already own the second. Okay so let's just pause that there. Give me a second. I have read both Girls of Paper and Fire and Girls of Storm and Shadow this year. Book three still hasn't come out. I think originally it was due for November but it has been pushed back. I'm not sure to when actually. When does it come out now? Oh my god what? It's now saying November 2021. I didn't think I had that long to wait. And I really scratched my head and I wonder where's God when you need him. I'm gonna give myself the point for this because I have read all that is out currently. Like I couldn't win this because the third one isn't out until end of next year. So I'm giving myself the point. This was Five Stars, one of my favorite fantasy books. Like I think the world in this is so incredibly magical. I think the girls, the relationship between these paper girls who are forced to sleep with the king, the way that grief and trauma is manifested in each of them in different ways. I think it's absolutely brilliant. This is sapphic as well if you're wanting a bit of female romance. This would be like my top recommendation. I have read Girls of Storm and Shadow. It was one of the earliest books I think I read this year. I think I read it in either January or February. Oh my god every time I say series, series thinks I'm talking to it online. I didn't love this as much. I think it's the general consensus is that this isn't as good. It's very much a travel book. I think I heard that Natasha Nyang originally wanted this to be a duology and it was changed to a trilogy and you can definitely feel that. There was just some pacing issues in this book and I think it could have afforded to be shorter or different things could have happened because it's very much just travelling from one place to another. However, I still love these characters. They are still some of my favourite characters ever. Leigh is just like one of my favourite characters to read from her perspective. So I'm very excited for the third one to come out next year at the end of next year but I'm giving myself a point because I have read all that I could have done and I just like love them together. Aren't they amazing? I need to take, I need to still need to take the Barnes and Noble sticker off of it. I still need to take the Barnes and Noble sticker off of it. The next series I want to get to is the Trudivia series by Maureen Johnson. These I believe are all out now or the third one is going to come out soon and it's just a bit of light hearted mystery. Okay, well, okay, well, hmm. I have read the first two in this series. They are just these super fun murder mystery books. I do really like these. I think they're both kind of like a four star. It's set at this boarding school that is known for excellence. It keeps jumping back and forth between a mystery in the present day and a mystery kind of like I think in the 1940s maybe when the school was originally set up. The third one did come out last year, I think at the end of last year, but I wanted to wait till it came out in paperback and it didn't come out in paperback to the end of this year because I wanted them all to be like paperbacks matching. People call me over the top but lately I prefer being a bottom. I think it came out in like November and since then I've been on a book buying ban. I will read it almost as soon as I get it. Like as soon as I buy it, I will read it. It's just that kind of book. This series are just so easy to pick up and to read and to enjoy. They're really something that's great when you're we're going to pretend we didn't see that. We are going to pretend we didn't hear that. So I am excited to read the last one. I just couldn't justify buying it. I was on a book buying ban once it came out in paperback and I've got so many books that I don't need it but I do definitely want to get it. I just haven't had a lot of time in terms of waiting for the paperback to come out. It only came out a couple months ago in paperback so I haven't had much time to buy it and read it. So it will happen but that is yet another fate yet so it's not going well. Okay the next series I really want to get to is the Renegades series by Mr. Mayer. I'm holding the second book in the series up because I prefer it in terms of the cover to the first one because I have the paperback from the first one. I haven't finished it. So I do just need to finish this series. Oh my god. The issue with this is again is an issue of buying it. I want the hardback right? I want the hardback so it matches this because I hate this and the thing is that the paperback doesn't even match this anymore but the only place that I can buy the hardback is Black Wells which is like a bookshop in the UK and like it's only $13.99. Like I should just do it but I find it really difficult to buy books. Like I know probably if you see like regular book hauls on my channel you're like she buys books all the time but I actually don't. Like I only really buy them nowadays for videos or on a spur of the moment trip to Waterstones. The majority of book hauls are very luckily books I've been sent. I'm very blessed that you guys send me books very often or I'm sent books in book box subscriptions or stuff like that and so I don't actually buy that many books. I should probably just do it. In fact I might even just do it after this video because it's only $13.99 and I know I should just do it. So this is all about superheroes and basically in this world you have like the good guys and the bad guys and our protagonist Nova she was raised by the bad guys. Her uncle was like the ultimate bad guy. I'm all like a bad boy though don't we? Yeah not a fucking terrorist Loakras. She infiltrates the Renegades which are the good guys to like know more about them. She takes on this alternative identity with them but then she kind of like starts to like fall for one of the guys there and like it's this whole thing and she starts to make friends and it was an enjoyable series. I remember I hurt my foot at a step class. I hope you all like you all know what step is right when you're like at the gym and it's something like old ladies do but like I was there doing it. Up up down down good job. I fell off the step and I hurt my ankle so I was just like on the sofa all day and I literally read this book in that whole day and it was at a time that was very rare for me to like read books on a day like I never did that. Obviously I do it now more for like vlogs and stuff but I had never really done that before so these books read so fast and I do wanna read Supernova. Like Supernova was on my Christmas list last year and I had a very like I think I only had like six books, eight books on my Christmas list last year and I think Supernova was the only one I didn't get so I have wanted it for a long time but again it's just not been something that I have bought. So yeah this is another, it's another no. I haven't finished it. I don't really have an excuse. I should have just got Supernova and read it but I haven't. Oh this isn't going as well as I thought it was going. The next series I want to complete or at least get up to date with because I don't know how many there are gonna be in the series. I think it's gonna be quite a long one in the end but it is Heartstopper by Oseman. I have just read this book. Yay! Okay so they're right here as you can see with all my graphic novels. This is the book series that got me into graphic novels. I have read Volume 1, 2 and 3. I love it. It is the best graphic novel series known to man. It is beautiful, it is lovely, it is heartwarming. He fills my heart with warmth. This is the story of Nick and Charlie meeting, falling in love. It's the story of them getting to know each other. It's the story of them going on a school trip together and being in love and I just love them so much. It is just this beautiful story of these two boys falling for each other and becoming best friends and becoming each other's like partner through everything and helping each other and it's about being young in the UK. It captures that so well. I think there's only gonna be five volumes which is really really sad so I have read as much as I can. The current trend is that obviously I seem to be posting off last books in series. All of the ones I've failed at so far are because I haven't read the last book. Like that's something that's so frustrating is that it's so easy for me to finish them because I've only got to read one more book for each of them but I just keep putting off that last book and not buying that last book. There must say something about my psychology. So the only two that I have like finished are the ones that haven't finished. Like the series that haven't ended. These, I love them so much. I will always like read them as soon as they come out. They're absolutely incredible so I love them very much. So that's a win! Woohoo! The next series I want to complete by end of 2020 is Shadow and Bone Trimble G by Lee Bardugo. I enjoyed this. I gave it three stars. I didn't love it. Okay so I have read this entire series. I've read Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. I didn't really like these. I think I gave it three stars. 2.752? Maybe? Yeah it wasn't really it let's be honest. It's not for main part. This is the story of Alina who is like a sun summoner so she can like summon light. She's like a human torch and it's the story of like war and the Darkling who is this very powerful man and Mal who is Alina's like kind of boyfriend and he's like not it. Oh my god I just can't stop my eyes rolling when I think of Mal. I'm glad I read it because now I can get on to Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. I still haven't read them. I read this series for the sole purpose of like feeling like I read this before I read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. You don't have to but a lot of people said it helped with the world building but like I've left it so long now that I think it didn't even really matter. Like I think I didn't even need to do that. I think I'm going to be reading Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom sometime early next year. I've been meaning to do a video reading them because I'm going to do a sole video for them. I've been meaning to do it for months. It's just kept being pushed back. I'm very excited for the Netflix series. Ben Barnes could like I think he should just play every character in the history of the world. I love him. I adore him. I'm just happy that I've read a book series. Why have I finished this and not Supernova or King of Crows? Like why did I do that? Why did I actually read the one I was enjoying the least? I think I just wanted to get it out of the way and get it done but why did I do that to myself genuinely? For me the real reason that I want to get through this series is so I can then get through Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. I cannot wait to get to these. I've obviously heard such amazing things about them. I'm really hoping I'm able to read all four books that enable me to finish these by the end of the year. Well you didn't! Oh okay we've got to count that as a series. I have not read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Why would I put that on there when I hadn't only read Shadow and Bone? Why would I do that to myself? Oh my god no I haven't read them. They're over there. I'm not even gonna pick them up. Like I'm not I can't even look at them. Like I can't I can't even look at them. I haven't read them. Are you not ashamed of yourself? Are you not embarrassed? This is really embarrassing. Okay I'm sorry Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. I didn't read you. I will soon. I've wanted to read them like the whole year. I just haven't got around to making that video. Okay what's next? So the next series that I want to complete is Stalking Jack the Ripper. Oh fuck off! I'm gonna sell code this series. Fuck! Oh! So again oh my god okay I'm not even listening to myself speak about it. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Carrie Manuscalco. I read the first one. I gave it three stars. I don't even own the second one. I haven't even got caused to finishing this series because I think I think it hasn't been a priority just because I didn't love this but I was in the mood for this series in October and November. I would have read it had I owned the second one but I just didn't and like I said I was trying not to buy books. This is a book about Audrey Rose right and then Jack the Ripper starts killing women and she wants to figure out who it is. I do want to continue on with this series. I do want to finish it hopefully. What am I saying? Hopefully I will finish it next year. Like if I were to buy the books I'd read them. It's just a matter of like I don't own them so I can't. And then the last series I hope to finish this year. I think I will definitely finish this and that is The Illuminae Files by Anna Hoffman and Drake Christoff. I love this. This is my first book of this year and I gave it 5 out of 5. Incredible. I have finished The Illuminae Files. I have read all three. I read them right at the start of the year. Like this is all five stars. I adore this series. I love it so much. This is a story of essentially like this big war between corporations. That's a very boring way to describe it. Each book focuses on kind of like two teenagers roughly. Three, two or three teenagers that are somehow playing a role in this war. This is all files from The Illuminae Group. So it is chat logs. It is emails. It is video surveillance. It is text from the AI. And so it is just told in this really unique way especially at the ends of the books. Like there's all these, it gets really cool. I loved this series. I really want to reread it. It's one of my favourite series of all time. All of my family have finished this series in this time. Like I'm pretty sure, I think my mum and my dad have both read all of the series and I just adore it so much. It is amazing. So I really recommend you go and pick this up if you haven't already. So the final, god this is laughable. The final count for have I finished the book series I was supposed to finish this year. I finished four. I haven't finished, how many is that? Is that five? I haven't finished five. Well done me. That is so terrible. Oh, that's really bad. Oh well, we just have to live with it. Like I said, a lot of them, I'm only like one book away from finishing it so I should be able to finish quite a few of these series next year. Maybe early on next year. Maybe I could push myself to finish these. Maybe I'll do a reading vlog saying like finishing series some point at the start of next year. Let me know if that's something you'd like to watch. If you have gotten to the end, is there a laptop emoji? If there's not, maybe one of the cameras. I don't know. Laptop or camera. I hope you enjoyed this video. I will see you very very soon with another one. Until then, I hope you keep well. Okay, bye.