 None of you can be mad at me and I want to hear anything. Um, shut up. Don't say anything. Welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. Today, yeah, you guessed it, you can see the title. We're chatting about the book series I want to start. Wow. Crazy. You're crazy, girl. So a lot of you know, yeah, the whole goal this year is to finish series and to, you know, not have many series on my currently reading. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to start other ones. The reason I'm doing this video is there's a motivation for me to finish the series I am currently reading so that I can start on these. Because a lot of these books, I kind of want to read more than I do on every series that partly is because I have issue finishing series. Like there's just a mental block, there's just like, you know, just leave it as it is, just leave it as it is. And also something that I find I do is because I want to read these series so bad I like save them mentally as a reward. But when I have finished a lot, right? I'm like, you can't read this until you're like way down. Like you've got loads read. But I end up starting other series like for videos or coincidentally just like not thinking about it. But these ones I save. So talking about it is going to make me, you know, pick these ones up, prioritise them, not save them for a rainy day that never comes when I've read some more series and it also motivates me to finish the ones I'm reading. Okay? So we're just going to get into it. So the series I've probably wanted to start the most and have wanted to start the most for quite a while is In The Hall With The Knife by DeGanna Peter Froin. This is a clue mystery. My TBR game is TBR Cluedo. Yeah, I want to read this so bad. It is like a YA retelling of Cluedo or Clue. It has all the characters, Scarlet, Mustard, Peacock. You know, all of these, all the characters from the board game are children, I think, at this boarding school and there's like murder mysteries happening. This is a place for legends. Okay? I'm so excited to read this. Now I'm a bit nervous because I think I have been told this can read as like younger YA but just I mean the premise is me. Like that, am I the drama? Like the premise is me. There's never been a book that is more me. I love your typical mysteries. I love anything that harkens back to like mystery of times gone by. So yeah, I'm very, very excited. I know that they're I think trapped. I think in a storm? Is it a storm? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm right. I'm right. They're trapped in this. They're like a mansion. They're practicals like in a mansion. They're trapped in a headmaster. Hours later his lifeless body is discovered in a pool of blood. And they're trying to figure out who's done it. So I'm very excited. It's a series where they've all got like in the something with the something kind of names like like you do in like you play Includo. So I just like this book is perfect for me. It was made for me. And I've wanted to read it for quite a long, a long time now but I keep kind of delaying it and playing it off for when I read more. Next is probably my favorite physical book that I own right now that I haven't read. That is Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sulin Tan. I mean look at the end pages. I mean this genuinely is this and Six Crimson Cranes I think are the most gorgeous editions that fairly have ever done in my opinion. I just absolutely love it. So many people have been telling me how much I'm going to love this. So many of my patrons we like talk on the discord and so many of them have read this and love this and I'm like I mean I love my fantasy to be beautiful very lyrical, very soft and ethereal. That's kind of how I like my fantasy. So I'm so excited to start this. I know we're obviously following this girl who's the daughter of the Moon Goddess. I think she hasn't known that though for many years what she's been growing up and then she has to do something to like rescue her mother and goes on this quest. And just the art around this book just oh my god it's genuinely so so so so gorgeous and it's one of the fantasy books that is like most exciting to me right now. I just think like if a book looks as gorgeous as this I'm gonna love it. I'm so excited. Then we have a book that I have heard mixed things about but I think it's gonna be my kind of thing is Pride and Premeditation by Tesla Price. This is a Jane Austen murder mystery retelling. Oh my god Jesus Christ. Check out the label. So it's a retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice is something that the story I only read the book once when I was much younger I would like I am gonna reread it at some point. I read it with my mom in like a buddy read when I think I was like 10. I think I understood a lot of it but I did read it. Pride and Prejudice is very special to me because whenever I was sick as a child I would always watch with my mom the Colin Firth adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. It's the best adaptation. I won't hear anything else. And it's just the story. I just know it like the back of my hand you know. So I'm so excited to see how it's adapted into this murder mystery retelling. Lizzie Bennett is a formidable litigator and Darcy is her like opposing lawyer essentially. They're kind of going against each other. This is gonna be, I think there's three gonna be in this series. She's not doing all of the Jane Austen books but I think there's gonna be three where they're all like murder mystery retellings. So I'm super excited to get to this. I think it's just gonna be fun. I'm not looking for this to be like a literary masterpiece. I'm just really excited to see how they adapt Pride and Prejudice and have a lot of fun with like a silly murder mystery with Darcy. And I hope that they keep like the core of the characters. And I hope that she imagined Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy when writing it because he is Mr. Darcy. Then we have one that I think a lot of you are gonna be happy to see on this list and it's Finley Donovan is kidding it. Yeah, I haven't read it yet. Shame on you. I feel like this is Booktube's like fave murder mystery kind of book. And I'm like, well, we have a problem because I haven't read it. We're following Finley Donovan who's this writer. She's describing, is it her editor or agent? Her agent. She's at lunch describing the plot and then this woman mistakes that she is actually a hit woman and gives her a lot of money to kill her husband. And I've just heard it's funny, you know, it's a bit all over the place. Finley Donovan is a bit of a mess. And this one I'm just so excited to read because so many people on Booktube have loved it. And I'm like, well, we're waiting for my, for my seal of approval. No, Mara, I would say it looks like where it's murder mystery in chief. I view myself as like second in command. You know what I mean? That's my perception of myself. No one says that, but yes. Okay, work. I just feel like I have to read this. I have to know everyone's talking about. I'm very, very excited. I feel like it's probably gonna be the kind of book that I love. But again, I've been putting it off because I'm like Megan, you can't stop until you finish more series. But if you watched my TBR Clude this month, but you haven't, go check it out. You'll know that I'm planning on finishing quite a lot of series. Probably at least like five series this month in June. So fingers crossed, I could start maybe like one of these if I'm really well behaved. Next, we have another one of the fantasies I'm most excited to read. And that is Blood Like Magic by LaZelle Sanbury. So I've spoken before about how I want to read this so badly because I love LaZelle's YouTube channel. I watch quite a bit of AuthorTube. I've got a few stages. I'm like saving up. My watch later is full of AuthorTube videos, but I'm saving up for a moment. I can actually start writing. That is on the horizon. I'm gonna do it. Everything I want is on the other side of fear. I have to remind myself of that. LaZelle and Lindsay Puckett, who's got her debut novel coming out later this year, which I'm very excited for. They're probably the two AuthorTubers I watch the most. And so I'm just very, very excited to read this. I've heard LaZelle speak about it so much. It's about this girl who's from a family of witches and she's given a task. And the task is to kill her first love. Otherwise, all of her family will lose their magic. And I remember LaZelle spoke about how her first image that kind of developed into this book was a girl sitting in a bath of blood. And I'm like, whoa, okay, you sold me. You've got me. I've also had just great things. I feel like the everyone that reads it loves it. And it's quite a chunky book. It's almost 500 pages. And I do tend to like my fantasy. Either like novellas. I really like fantasy novellas. Or I like it a bit longer. I like my fantasy to have a lot of depth. And especially YA. I feel like sometimes they're scared of being long. Like they're always like 300 pages. And I love a short book. I mean, like my average page count for books per month has always been like 290. Like I read quite a lot of short books. But I do think the fantasy that I rate really high is the kind of longer, more complex fantasy. Next we have another like booktube dialing for mysteries. And it is a curious beginning. The first Veronica Speedwell mystery. So yeah, there's another one. I've been saving for so, so, so long. I'm like hitting my leg. I wouldn't even let myself buy this for so long because I was like, you have to wait. Yeah, you have to wait. I have used up every bit of my patience. I have used up every bit of fucking self-control. I don't know much about it other than we've got Veronica Speedwell and she's like out here saving mysteries and there's also like a romance. But I just know that so many people have loved this, who have read it. And again, I just feel like we need to find out what I think of it. I'm sorry, it's in the public interest. It's in the public interest. Don't yell at me for something or a series. It's in the public interest. So this I would say in the hall with a knife are the two that I've been most like Megan, you're not allowed. You're not allowed to start it. But if I finish a few series, I think, I think I am allowed. Then we have the Marlowe Magic Club by Robert Thorogood. So firstly, I mean the title Thursday Magic Club, Marlowe Magic Club is about an elderly protagonist. So it's very similar to my favorite book of last year. I would say this is another one of the kind of like mainstream murder mysteries in the UK, especially that's come out lately. And I'm just very excited, particularly because it is so similar to the Thursday Magic Club. It's like an elderly friend group solving murder mysteries. So I'm intrigued to see how it compares and if it isn't the case of like two greats having the same idea at the same time, or I don't know, it must have been, because they came out so close together. This one came out, I suppose in 2021. I don't know. I kind of want to know, does it copy Thursday Magic Club or is it just like a case of serendipity at the same time? And then my last series is one I'm incredibly excited for, but it hasn't actually come out yet, but I'm so excited for it. And it is Murder Before Ever Song. Have I got that name wrong? It's A Canon Clement Mystery by Reverend Richard Coles. If you're not from the UK, Reverend Richard Coles is kind of like, like a TV personality. He's also a vicar, but he's like a TV personality as well. I think he used to be like in a band back in the day. He's a very funny, clever man. And he has written books in the past. So here's the thing. One of my favourite books ever is Written by Richard Oldman. Obviously last year, my favourite book. He's a TV personality again. And so this whole conversation about celebrities writing books has to come up. But both of these people, I think Reverend Richard Coles has written books in the past anyway already, but they're the kind of people you would expect to write a book. When people become celebrities in one avenue or another, I don't believe that immediately excludes them from ever being allowed to write books because people can have multiple interests. Do you know what I mean? Like someone could be an actor, but also love writing. Like it's, you know, there's duality to people. However, I will agree there is a problem, big problem with, you know, ghost writers. I've spoken about this in the past. I mean, you're sure that you can do the kind of writing a book. Or people getting successful don't necessarily deserve it. David Ralliams, like... But, you know, he strikes me as the kind of person who is going to write a great book. So this is about a vicar in a small English quaint town. There's like petty shit happening. Like, you know, it's a parish with old people. And, you know, having... I went to church when I was younger and I think I know the kind of people that are going to be in this book. Anyway, a parishioner is found in the church, I think, murdered with a pair of sacrators down into his neck. And, you know, this is coming off of the back of things like Thursday Murder Club, the success of that, I think. But it's more mainstream mysteries for me. I mean, I'm not complaining. I'll take all the mainstream mysteries, please. I'll like take it all. I'll get, you know, bring them all in. Let it be the next hype thing, because I love them. We need it. This is essential. This is a crisis. I've looked at some reviews this already of people who had arcs. And I do think it's getting mixed reviews because I think it's even more cozy mystery, quaint mystery than Thursday Murder Club, like, even more so. I think it's probably going to compare most to something I've read to, like, A Quiet Life in the Country by T. E. Kinsey, like the Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, which are, like, purely cozy mysteries. Do you know what I mean? I think it's probably going to be more closely aligned with that in terms of voice and narrative. But that excites me. Like, you know, someone writing a real cozy mystery really, really excites me in the mainstream. So I'm very, very excited for this. I'm hoping we're going to get lots more. You know, it's already been named. The series will be named. He's a big name. So I think this is going to be quite a long-running series, like the Thursday Murder Club. And I'm super duper excited for it. So there we have it. That is the series I most want to start. Don't have a go at me. The whole point of talking about this is to make me read the books that I need to read so that I can read these, essentially. Let me know if you've read any of these. Which of these you would like me to prioritize? Because, you know, that would be really good to know which ones you're most excited to hear my opinion on. If you've gotten to the end of the video, comment the spyglass emoji, because there's a lot of mysteries. This is mostly mysteries, this list. I feel like the series I have to finish are predominantly fantasies. And so I'm, like, trying to get them out the way so I can read some more mystery series. But yeah, comment that down below if you've gotten to the end. Thank you so much for watching. I love you so much. And I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!