 Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today to talk about the series that I plan to start in 2021. They are a bunch of series that I'm already in the middle of and that really should prevent me from starting any more series. What ah yeah still planning to start a bunch of new series. Just because a series is not on this list does not mean I won't necessarily pick it up in 2021. It just means that I'm not actively currently planning to prioritize starting it in 2021. But things can change very quickly as we all learn in 2020. These are in no particular order. They're just the orders that are open down in. So it's not like top priority to lowest priority or anything like that. It's just it's just a list. So first on my list is The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Which is one of the series that like fantasy lovers, fantasy readers, knowers of fantasy things have at the very least heard of but most likely read. I have not. My brother actually read these in high school. I don't think he read all of The Wheel of Time but he read quite a few and he's trying to get me to read them when I was in high school. I didn't because it didn't appeal to me at the time. I think my dad's read most of not all of the books in The Wheel of Time. I have several friends that love The Wheel of Time. It is this classic fantasy or newer classic fantasy. It's just one of those it's one of those series. So I feel like it's about time that I give it a go. I've got the first book The Eye of the World. I did technically read a few pages of The Eye of the World in high school when my brother was trying to get me to read it. But I read maybe a chapter or two. I was not the right person or the right mood or the right place or the right time for it. So I'm going in with a low expectations but high enthusiasm if that makes sense. So I'm trying to keep expectations low because I want to give it a chance. And I've heard even fans of it criticize it and say that like you have to really read a few books before you really get into it. Which like okey doke really still in it. I've heard people talk about like this lag at the middle of the series. It's quite a long series. So I'm just going in with like very middle expectations. Very just like okay let's just see what this is about. I'm not expecting it to blow me away. I'm not expecting to hate it. I'm just like let's see what it is. Next up I have Malazan, a book of the fallen by Steve Erickson. Steve and Erickson. I did also technically start reading the first book in this series years ago. I had just sort of started getting back into reading. And I had gotten a few mass market paperbacks from Amazon that were just sort of recommended to me by the algorithm. So I got Gardens of the Moon and I had it with me when I went to go buy my first car. And they took a really long time like fixing up the car because it was a car max so they always do like a check and like whatever they do like an inspection type thing. And it took way longer than usual. So I was in the waiting room for a couple hours trying to maybe read Gardens of the Moon. It was not really working for me because I was a car max. And I've never really tried it since. I have heard that it is notoriously difficult to get into and that it is kind of this complicated not character or plot driven bizarre type thing. I'm a very different person than I was then. I'm not presently in the car max waiting room. So I'm giving it another go. Next up I have the Dresden files by who even is that by? I feel like I should know. Jim Butcher. The moment I saw that name I was like you stupid idiot. This is a kind of series that I feel like a lot of people have read and love as quite the cult following. I honestly like I first heard of the show The Dresden Files that I think is based on those books. I didn't know there were books. So the first time I heard someone say they like the Dresden Files I was like are those like books based on that TV show? Kind of like how people think that Witcher books are based on the game. So like I just was like wasn't that that one random thing that there was like a bad TV show for? But I've since then become more aware of and familiar with the fact that these are a series of books that people quite like and it's urban fantasy with sort of like private investigator wizard thing. I think there's like approximately one million books out in the series so far. From what I hear this sort of there is an overarching plot but they are also very much like the Crime of the Week type thing and I'm a sucker for those type of TV shows. I love watching things like Bones and Psych and I just out of there I like Crime of the Week type shows and having like quick reads that are each oh I loved Nancy Drew I read like nothing but Nancy Drew when I was a kid. So I like fantasy. I like Crime of the Week and people seem to like these so I'm gonna give them a go. Next the book of the new sun by Jean Wolfe. First book is Shadow and Claw. This is a like sci-fi fantasy series and I do mean like or like science fantasy I guess that's what that's called. I don't know though they had all those categories when it was written it's older. I picked it up kind of randomly because the synopsis sounded really cool and I didn't much like a lot of the books that I've read that turned out to be iconic well-known well-regarded much revered works that I had no idea when I picked them up. Fun of those kind of like how I randomly picked up Neo though and then was like oh this is like a thing. So I randomly picked up the first book Shadow and Claw because the cover caught my eye the synopsis sounded interesting. I was like this this sounds up my alley and then Pierce Brown really highly recommended it after that and I was like oh I've got that book and then I've like I've seen more like it discussed I guess as being one of those like incredibly well-regarded type books in series that have been like really influential. So I've got it Pierce Brown likes it and I'm gonna try reading it. Next up is Lock and Key by Joe Hill. I had intended actually to and I did technically very barely started during Halloween month but also known as October. This is a series of graphic novels, comics, thingies, picture books. I watched the adaptation of Lock and Key on Netflix and I really loved it and my friend is trying to get me to read more graphic novels she's always trying to get me to read more graphic novels and there is an audible adaptation of it so much like with Sandman that's sort of my goal plan approach intention to to read along while I listen. I did start doing that but my allergies were really bad and I couldn't look at it when I started and then I didn't have time the rest of the month because I had like fucking one billion books on my TBR in October. But Audible Plus, the new is it all at Audible Plus? The new Audible thing where there's like a selection of audiobooks for free. If you're part of it like Kindle Unlimited the audiobook of Lock and Key is available at least right now. Maybe that'll change so I really need to hurry up but that's my plan to listen and read along. Next I have Dark Tower by Stephen King. This is I originally intended to start my Stephen King journey with Dark Tower because I was like well I'm mainly a fantasy reader and he has written an epic fantasy series so I would make the most sense to start there except I was then told by a bunch of people no don't start with Dark Tower so all those people told me to start with Pet Cemetery instead and I did start with Pet Cemetery and I liked Pet Cemetery. And since then I read Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King which is a fantasy. I really enjoyed it and I think I'm finally ready now to start my Dark Tower journey. I own the first two books in the Dark Tower. A friend of mine gave them to me because she wants me to read more Stephen King. It's about time I find out what I think of that iconic series. Next up I have The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare. I have been intending to read this series for a million years and I have some really cool editions of it and I feel like I need to read The Dark Artifices before I read the new series that is a sequel to The Infernal Devices but still a prequel to The Mortal Instruments and a pre-prequel to The Dark Artifices and because Cassandra Clare's series situation is intense. I've given up on The Mortal Instruments as a thing that I will never read because I just can't deal with it. Universally I've pretty much heard people say people who did not previously like Cassandra Clare The Dark Artifices is genuinely really good so I plan to read The Dark Artifices and then read... Is it called... What is the new series? The Gilded Hour? Is that... No, I feel like that's the name of a historical fiction book. The Glittering Hour? The Glittering Hour. Well, Chain of Gold is the first book in the series anyway. So yeah, I want to read The Dark Artifices because everyone seems to agree that they're great and mainly I really really want to read the new one which is the historical fiction-y type one because I really liked The Infernal Devices and I want more of Gem. Gem Carstairs is my baby! Next up is Fireborn by whoever the fuck that's by. I got it from Book of the Month, ages and ages ago. I thought it was a standalone actually but recently have become aware that it is not a standalone and they changed the covers and I don't like the new covers so that's deeply upsetting. But the series is called... I don't know what the series is called. But the author, which is actually what I was googling is Rosarium Windup. Yeah, I've heard pretty great things about it. I've heard that it's very character driven, a unique take on the whole dragon thing, and I've pretty much heard great things about it from everyone that's picked it up and from people that I trust. I already own it. I've owned it since I got it from Book of the Month and I need to really fucking read it. Yeah, I just... yeah, yep. Next is Mad Ship by Robin Hobb. I intend to finish the Farsieger trilogy which I'm loving and intend to dive right into the Mad Ship. Perhaps, depending on how things go, I might be able to read other Robin Hobb series as well next year but the one that I plan to start as soon as I'm done with Farsieger is Mad Ship which I believe is also what you're supposed to read after Mad Ship. I think that's the order of things. I love, love, love Farsieger so far so I fully expect to continue to love it and to want to read more Hobb when I'm done. I've heard nothing but exceptional things about Mad Ship. I've heard a lot of people say that they like it better than Farsieger which, man, like, if it's better than Farsieger, like, wow. I believe the sort of concept behind those books is that the sort of magical type of wood is used to build these ships which gives the ship's kind of personality and sentience. I feel like if it wasn't Robin Hobb, if I heard someone else was writing this, I'd be like, that sounds dumb. But it's Robin Hobb and I've seen now how subtly she writes characters that I feel like if there's anybody that could pull off sentient ships, it's Robin Hobb. So I'm excited. Next up is The Black Company by Glen Cook. This actually is also another series that I did technically start reading like a chap girl way, like, years ago. I also got like a bunch of my market name or texts I said from Amazon and this one I started reading one day on my commute to work when I was taking the bus back then and read like a chapter and was like, eh. And then just, I didn't, back in the day, DNF wasn't part of my vocabulary. So I just was like, eh, I don't feel like reading that right now. And then it never breaks it up again. And I think I may have gotten rid of it or given it away or something. Like I definitely don't own it anymore. So yeah, now that I kind of know more what it is, know myself more as a reader, know what I'm getting into, it's not just some random thing I picked up and I was like, eh, I want to give it a go. Plus I've fallen like harder and harder for grim dark as the years go on. And I become one with my feared animal, sandanglokta. So I think it would appear appeal to me more now than I did, than it was ever going to at that point in my life. And last but not least is the book of Babel by... Why don't I ever look up other names before I film videos? I just, I don't understand what's wrong with me. Josiah Bancroft. I pre-ordered San Linus Ends when it came, was coming out and I haven't read it yet. And since then I think like four more books in the series have come out. Maybe not four, but more books have come out. I think if it's not already a completed series it's about to be. I've heard nothing but amazing things about it and I was expecting to like it. That's why I pre-ordered it and I intended to read it shortly after it came out and just never run around to it. And I really, really want to read it and I do expect to love that. It sounds so like my jam. Like the sort of character driven, lit-ficky style of fantasy with a completely unique premise. It sounds amazing and I'm really excited for that. So let me know in the comments down below if you've read any of the series that I am planning to start. If you're also planning to start any of these series if you would recommend that I don't read these series or if you're excited for me to experience these series whatever you want to let me know. I post videos on Saturdays, other random times as well but definitely Saturdays so like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see you. Bye.