Top Ten Tuesday is held over at That Artsy Reader Girl, where every week bloggers list their top 10 being asked about. This week the topic is actually about those series we’ve given up on, but I maintain that I haven’t given up on these just yet.
Matt Wallace’s Sin Du Jour series: is a delectable, funny and snarky series about a catering company for the supernaturals in New York. It’s got some seriously gorgeous worldbuilding to boot.
Secret Histories by Simon R Green: With a final book in the series called Nightfall, which sets the characters of this series against the characters of his Nightside series (which I adored and was heartbroken when it ended) I am ready for the ending of this series. (Also #teamNightside!)
Iron Druid series: I found this series when I had given up on Harry Dresden, and was heartbroken to find out that Kevin Hearne, the author only planned nine (I know only right!) Atticus and Oberon made urban fantasy fun again for me, and I will never give up on them.
Incryptid series: Seanan McGuire genuinely astounds me with how much she writes and how varied her writing is. I never thought I would fall in love with a ballroom dancing protector of Incrytpids, but I did.
Rebel of the Sands: SOBS. A stellar beginning but I couldn’t quite get back into it.
Wolf by Wolf series: This book by Ryan Graudin came onto my radar unexpectedly and I was blown away by it. But I also found it dark in the sense of the timeline – an alternate WW2.
SpellSlinger series: magic and the wild, wild west. Sort of. Innovative worldbuilding, but I need more time in my life. And self control, of which I have none when it comes to choosing books: ooh shiny is the extent of my self control and then I’m off forgetting I need to finish a gem of a series like this one.
Bit of a trend isn’t there? ??♀️
And that’s it! What series have you given up on? Or no?
I recently bought the first book in the Iron Druid series. I hope to start it this summer!
Glad you haven’t completely given up on these series though. We’ve heard nice things about the Iron Druid series, so hope you end up enjoying it. It’s cool how you could do this post, we can’t even remember any series we’ve given up on. Great post 🙂
~ Luna & Saturn @ Pendragons
There are some great series on here. I’ve always been curious about the Simon R. Green books. The only thing that’s stopped me so far is that my library is hit or miss on the ones they have.
I need to try Matt Wallace’s stuff! Everyone loves his work and he seems like a cool dude with good politics based on his twitter (that sort of thing is quite important to me these days). Unfortunately I wasn’t the biggest fan of The Iron Druid Chronicles and gave up on the series after the second book…Atticus felt a bit too womanizing and almost sexist for me, honestly. I do want to try Hearne’s other series though!
Love the Wolf by Wolf series and it’s only two books, which works for me! I still want to read the e-book though. 🙂
-Lauren
I’ll definitely have to check out the Wolf by Wolf series, and maybe some of the others. Have a great week.
I hope you do! And you too!
Definitely going to have to check some of these out. Just finished the third book in the Dresden Files. And I’m now reading a collection of short stories, many about Harry, set in the same universe called Brief Cases.
I’ve seen Brief Cases yeah — I hope it’s a good read!
I’m planning on reading Rebel of the Sands this year, although I’ve heard some mixed things about it!
I love the Iron Druid series and really like the sound of Wolf by Wolf. I liked the first of the Matt Wallace books and need to catch up on the series.
Most of these are new to me, but I do have the first Rebel of the Sands book on my shelf. I’ve been putting off reading it for ages but hope to get to it this summer.
Eep! You know how I feel about Revel so please get back to reading that series! Book 3 is possibly my best read of the year so far…. And that’s 6 months already!
SpellSlinger… Hmmm, sounds familiar? I’m going to look it up! Maybe I read about it here???
I am reading my second Seanan McGuire book now and definitely want to read her Incryptid series at some point. I haven’t read any of the series you mention, but several are ones I want to try.