 Hello friends! How are we doing? Welcome back to my channel, I am Megan. Today we're going to be chatting about the series that I think Booktube is snoozing on. They're snoozing, they're like what are you doing Booktube? Wake up Pearl, wake up! These are basically just the series I think are severely underrated and I thought you know I chat a lot here about oh I need to read these series, I need to get caught up on series, am I reading enough series? But like let's actually chat about some of the ones I've loved, right? Let's let's get rid of the negativity, let's bring in the positivity and let's get excited for some great series in my opinion that more people should be reading. So yeah it's just the book series that I think more people should read and more people should get excited about book series you might not have heard about before but I think are worth your time. Pretty simple vlog but I just felt like we needed some series positivity, not a vlog, little vlog, did her bit of a lie there. Pretty simple video but I felt like we needed some series positivity so let's just get into it. Number one on this list, you know I had to do it, this series is probably the only series on this list I have never heard another Booktube speak about unless they're reading it like for a themed video where I have mentioned it so they read it kind of thing. The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries. The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, okay? The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries. I can't believe that, I actually can't believe that. This is how many I've read, one, two, three, four, five, six, I'm just about to read the seventh this month hopefully. But this is Lady Hardcastle Mysteries where like in 1910s-ish England, kind of Edwardian England were following Lady Hardcastle and her maid flyer. They have retired from a past life of escapades and excitement to this town called Litter and Cotterel and you think, oh it's going to be quaint like a little English village with the pub and the house and though it's the murder hotspot of the world girls. So each book is the cozy kind of murder mystery. Them solving mysteries, murders, some other mysteries. And I know I've spoken to you about this a lot but I love them. I love them. I love them. So yeah, the first one, I'll just hold that up because the stack is heavy. The first one is A Quiet Life in the Country. My favorite one is probably still the second one in the Market for Murder. Now if you're going to read these based on my recommendation, which you should, they are fun. The relationship between Lady Hardcastle and Flow is beautiful but you need to read the audiobooks, okay? The narrator for the audiobooks could like snap me across the face and I'd say thank you. Like she's changed my life. She, at this point she's changed my life. I love the audiobooks for this. A lot of them are on the script. I always have a code by the way down below for you to get two months free of script. I also have a code for you to get a month free of audible with one free audiobook and if you're a prime member you get two free audiobooks. Or I have a code for 30 days free of Kindle Limited. So just so you know. And I always link the links for these as well if you want to buy them through an affiliate code from me. If you want to help me out you know. I've only just started doing this. I never did affiliate codes but I just like why not? Why not just stick them down there? And I think the three the three child codes are probably the best, best deal for you. Anyways, getting distracted. Yeah most of these are on script. The most recent one that I need to read isn't. I feel like a few of them that I did listen to on there have disappeared. With script things can come and go. I mean things can be there for a while and then be gone and then be back. But most of them are on script and I just love them. I just love them. I'm obsessed. Their relationship is one of my favorite relationships. They've become comfort characters for me. I feel like the whole series now is kind of going to be like a 4.55. Like all the books that I read because I'm just so attached. I'm so invested. I'm so deep into this world. It's a very interesting relationship because obviously Flo is her maid but they are equals you know. But they kind of like take the mick out of the dynamic of the relationship. Lady Holocaust often calls her like tiny servant or something like that. I've always growing up loved like the Victorian and Wardium kind of settings in England. You know yes it may be romanticizing it somewhat. But it's a crazy mystery what do I expect? But I just love them. I think they deserve so much more hype. I just think they're just such a great time. They're just such a fun little palette cleanser of a time and I love them. So you gotta go read them guys. Like I know I sometimes I don't vlog them now because I'm so deep into the series. Like sometimes I just read them in my own time but I cannot recommend them enough. Next we have The Themis Files by Sylvain Nouvelle. I don't have the first one. The first one's Sleeping Giant. This is a very difficult series to pitch to because like the series goes I think some of the beauty of it is it goes wild. Like it goes crazy. Like I can't tell you anything but the first like 50 pages of the first book. It is sci-fi and the first book with discovering some like very large body parts that looks like they could belong to some kind of machine or robot and is it to do with aliens? That's basically all you need to know. Now I don't know if these were popular on Booktube before I was on Booktube. I don't know if they had a bit of a heyday back in the day but I haven't heard a ton of people speak about them. When did this second one come out? It's come out in 2017. Okay so like a little while ago. But again another book. You have to read the audiobooks for these okay. These are all told through interviews basically. So all through books are told through interviews, recorded conversations, diary entries, some of them. And it has a full cast audiobooks right. Oh my god. Oh my god guys. Oh my god. Those actors. Those actors. They said I'm gonna put my whole into this. My whole act to see into this. They are so good. They are so good. I just love full cast audiobooks. When I read a book that could be a full cast or like a book with a podcast element in it and they don't do like full cast sound effects music like what's the point? What is the point? What's the point? If you're not gonna give me it in the audiobook go give me it. Where's the flavour? Where's the flavour in this? The first two are great. The last one only human wasn't my favourite. I don't think it necessarily needed to exist. Or it could have been like a novella or something. I don't know. The third one it's still good but it didn't need to happen. The first two are great. I loved the direction it took in Waking Gods. You have these characters that you go on this journey with but also a lot of characters come and go. Like the series is not afraid for some you know. Like I guess everyone's a bit expendable in this series and like I said it goes on such a journey that I kind of want you to go into it blind but I just think this is such a fun sci-fi series and I never think I've had Gabby speak about it but I haven't heard many people speak about this series. Then I have a graphic novel series that I don't hear a ton of people speak about and that is the Sheets graphic novel series. We've got Sheets and Delicates by Bruna Thunna. I think I heard Ariel Bissette talk about this back in the day and I know Bruna Thunna does some stuff for their podcast books and bound podcasts as well. I love this. I love it. Particularly Delicates. I think Sheets was like a four star for me. Strong. This was five stars. Okay and the third one in this series is coming out I think next month sometime. We're following I think her name is Marjorie. I'm pretty sure it's her name Marjorie. Yeah I think she's about 13 and her mother has recently passed away and she is kind of running her family's laundromat at 13 because her dad is on this you know in his grief unable to do that. The first book is really about her and this ghost that she meets called Wendell and all the ghosts in this book like look like Halloween ghosts like Sheets. That's why it's called Sheets because the laundromat and the Sheets. I've connected the two dots. You didn't connect shit but I've connected them. And this second one we meet another character. What is her name? Eliza. We meet Eliza who is being bullied at school and it's kind of her story. I think the third one is probably going to be Wendell's story particularly because we don't really know how Wendell passed away but they're just a lovely graphic novel series. Definitely up there is one of my favorites. Let me show you we've got a lot of like blue and purple tones. Let me show you. Is that focused? I hope so. Can you see? It's like all blue and purples. It's really beautiful. As if it's blurred by Lemony Snicket. That was a combo I was not expecting. I just think if you're looking for a new graphic novel series that is heartwarming but also tackles some difficult topics. I just think this is such a great series and I'm so excited for the third one. Okay guys. The next series I don't know if it can be cast as like underrated Booktube sleeping on it because I do know some people have read this now okay but like it's not enough. It's never enough. I believe Booktube is sleeping on these. Let me tell you the truth in it. You think I just think I mean like guys if you're new here favorite series of all time. Favorite series of all time. So my favorite book's all time. I've only reread the first one once. I've never reread the second and third. I'm like putting it off. I'm putting it off. I think the second one is my favorite. Like I could verily have very very happily. If I was on a desert island let's say like I only take one series it would be this. I could very happily read this for the rest of my life and nothing else. Another one you need the audiobook okay. I discovered this first one Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter on a whim. I remember I was doing like a murder mystery vlog. This isn't necessarily murder mystery but I was trying to find like another book for the vlog and I just scrambled. It's scrum diddy-umptious. Stumbled. I crossed this book on script and my life has never been the same. I love this. So if you don't know the Athena Club Mysteries, we're following daughters and female versions of men from Catholic Torian literature. So we've got Mary Jekyll and Diana Hyde. We have Justine Frankenstein. We have Catherine Morro and Beatrice Rappuccini are kind of our main group of girlies but then we have like some other ones like Lucinda Van Helsing in a later book. Oh my gosh so good. It's them solving mysteries together but it's their sister hurt. I'm like listen I'm not a big character girlie but I would die for each and every one of them. Do you know that there was supposed to be a TV show? There was supposed to be a TV show. It never happened. Oh I would kill. I would kill. I just love them. I've always said if I ever win the lottery I am setting up a publishing house and I am just paying Theodore Goss to write more of this series forever. It's a lot of fantasies and when I feel the fantasy it is my reality. I'm not kidding. I am not kidding. I would do that with my money. If I ever win the lottery and suddenly like I wouldn't tell you because I'm not telling you if I win the lottery because no you shouldn't tell people. Don't even tell your family if I'm honest. I wouldn't tell you but like if you see Theodore Goss there's like a new imprint and uh suddenly what it's publishing is Theodore Goss books. I've come into some money okay and that's what I'm putting it into. I love these more than anything in the world. I can't explain to you how incredible they are. I love the writing. I love a good Victorian setting. I'm a bit of you know I've loved Victorian history since I was a kid. I just think it's so like a great setting for like mysteries and like dark shit but you just oh and I've always said one of my favorite parts of this is that Catherine is writing the story and the girls will cut in throughout the story like being like oh that's not how that happened or like you're chatting shit. What do they say that? But I just love them. I love them. I love them. I love them. The second book is way too long but like I don't care. It has no reason to be this long. It's like 700, 800 pages. No 700 pages. It has no reason to be that long but am I complaining? No. I love it. So in my opinion this series put cheapy sleeping on it. More of you should read it. More of you should love it. The idea that someone doesn't love this series I can't even, I can't even, I can't even fathom that because I need to reread the second one soon don't I? Thing is I've planned all my videos out for the rest of the year and I've got like 10,000 books to read but like I think I need to make time. Maybe I'll do it right at the end of the year when I'm probably like done reading. If I get ahead of my reading I'll be done and I can just maybe reread these at the end of the year. Then we have a YA series, a YA fantasy series. Listen I don't love it as much as that. I don't love anything as much as that but I do think that it is a bit underrated and I do think more people should read them and that is The Ravens' Geology by Cass Morgan and Danielle Page. I'd say this is one of the only like jewel, author, co-written books that I've loved. There's a few others but I don't tend, sometimes they like don't vibe with me. I've never read Cass Morgan or Danielle Page. Cass Morgan wrote the 100 series and Danielle Page wrote the Dorothy Must Die series and this is basically witches in a sorority coven and we follow like two different perspectives. I think they each kind of wrote one of the perspectives but the books do feel cohesive and that's what you read tonight. There's a bit of romance, it's YA but it's set at university and I think it does a great job of like doing YA university. University is an interesting place right because so much of the adult books we read set at university are like drugs, murders, sex, dangerous things you know what I mean? I didn't feel a lot different at university to how I felt in secondary school really and I think there's space for YA set university as well. I think there is okay, I think that's, some people think that's a controversial statement. I think there's space and room for that because like we don't all have to be drug, sex, rock and roll at university. Me and Tom were just in bed playing Pokemon most of the time, I'm honest. No drugs involved. I just think this is a series I don't hear a lot people speak about. These are both like four stars to me but I think they're just a solid YA witchy book. If you like witches this could be one to put on your list for like autumn time. Then one series that I had like kind of mixed experiences with but I do want to give a shout out and that is The Forward Collection. Now this is exclusive I think on Audible, they're all short stories, they each order books about like an hour long each of them and they're all sci-fi basically. We've got many different authors, I'm trying to remember who, like Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, Veronica Roth, there's six, who am I forgetting? I can't remember, anyways. But I found my favorite in this series was the first one, Arc by Veronica Roth. It's just this story, I think it's like the end of the world. There's a spaceship leaving Earth and we're following these scientists who have been like, they've been cataloging stuff on Earth before they leave Earth. Humanity has and there's like these, they're specializing flowers. I think these people, it's a very emotional short story. I made me want to read Veronica Roth. I've never read Veronica Roth before. I've now read Poster Girl, which I did enjoy, but like this short story made me cry, right? And I just think it's a fun little series of these short stories with varying levels of success. But I think they were pretty interesting and unique ideas for sci-fi where the world could go. So listen, I didn't give them all like, I think some of them like three stars, do you know what I mean? But that Veronica Roth one is still one of my favorite short stories I've ever read. And I've never heard anyone speak about this short story series. So if you have Audable, I feel like they're included in the membership. I don't feel like you have to use a credit to listen to them. Otherwise, I don't think I would have listened to them. So go check it out if you've ever wanted to give it a try. And then my final series that Booktube is sleeping on, I think this series, I've now had anyone speak about it, I think they only have like 200 ratings on Goodreads, some of the books in this series, like no one's read this series. But it is the Forgotten Women series by Zing Sing. I love these. So I've read the writers and the leaders. I have two more to read, which I think are the artists and the scientists. And it's basically talking about forgotten women, dark history, which is my favorite flavor of history. They all have, oh, I love how I'm going on the pages that don't have them, but each story is accompanied by a beautiful piece of artwork about the woman. And we just have about three pages going through their lives and what they did. And I just think like, I love women, okay? I love history about women. And I think that they're quite short. They're just a great little thing to read to like educate you on some history that is forgotten, right? History is so male dominated. And I just think let's push back on that. By far my favorite was the leaders. The thing about the writers was they were all writers. First with the leaders, there was people leading in different ways. The writers ended up feeling a bit repetitive for me. I don't know if the artists and the scientists will feel the same. I don't know. It was just like everyone liked writing. It wasn't something to be liked. It was something to be understood from an academic perspective. Obviously, you're not an academic. No. And I love writing. I love books. But I don't know. There wasn't as much variation in this one as there was in this one, because this one there was like four parts. So we had the rebels, the warriors, the rulers, the activists, the reformers. So there was quite like a big chunk of variation on like how the women, you know, were leaders. So I think I enjoyed that a bit more. But I just think the fact that these only have like 200 ratings, some of them on Goodreads, it's severely underrated. And I just think if you're interested in fiction, if you're interested about women's history, this is the series that you should be picking up. Okay, that is the series that I think Booktube is sleeping on. Feel free to let me know if you think actually some of these are pretty popular on Booktube. I mean, here's the thing, I know some people are afraid to change case, but it will never be hyped enough to me. I know I'm delusional when it comes to this book. I know I'm clouded. I know I just don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. But let me know what some series you've loved are that you think Booktube is sleeping on because I always need more to read evidently. Like I'm actually, I'm running out. I'm running out, seriously. So let me know some series that you think Booktube is sleeping on and I will see you very soon in another video. Bye!