Serial Readers Unite! discussion

Children of the Red King - Jenny Nimmo



✔Midnight for Charlie Bone
✔Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
✔Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
✔Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
✔Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
*Charlie Bone and the Beast
*Charlie Bone and the Shadow
*Charlie Bone and the Red Knight

There's just too many of them and I've aged out of this a bit haha

Dune Chronicles - Frank Herbert



✔Dune
✔Dune Messiah
✔Children of Dune
✔God Emperor of Dune
*Heretics of Dune
*Chapterhouse: Dune

I just could not get into this despite multiple attempts. It's a shame too because it's such a classic sci-fi series!

Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice

I couldn't even finish the first book I hated it so much. And after reading Violin by her, I'm thinking this is just an author who is not for me

Earth's Children - Jean M. Auel



Another classic sci-fi I just could not get into

The House of Niccolo - Dorothy Dunnet



✔Niccolò Rising

There's 6 more books in the series, and I didn't love the first book enough to make an effort to finish the series

Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan



✔The Eye of the World

At 24 more books to go and the author dying so someone else having to finish the series (even if it is a renowned author who did so) I'm noping this one

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon



✔Outlander

There's a lot with this series that doesn't work for me, and when the second book had a twenty year time jump and she has a daughter....it's just not up my alley. (Although I can see the appeal for other people!) This is one where I definitely plan on finishing the tv series though!

Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski



✔The Last Wish
✔Sword of Destiny
✔Blood of Elves

The writing style isn't for me. Remains one of my favourite video games though!

The Giver - Lois Lowry



✔The Giver
✔Gathering Blue
✔Messenger
*Son

I LOVED the first book, but the second was only ok and the third pretty lackluster. At this point I'm not planning on reading the 4th

Valdemar Mage Wars - Mercedes Lackey



✔The Black Gryphon

I just didn't feel like this book brought anything new to the table. No interested in reading the other two.

The Wicked Years - Gregory Maguire



✔Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
✔Son of a Witch

Gregory Maguire's writing can tend to the....weird side. The second book got even progressively weirder than the first sooo...

Too Spartan or akin to a movie too heavily focused on action and not enough character development? (The Last Witcher)

Animorphs - K.A. Applegate



Oh man this series was such a huge part of my life for so long and I've read almost all of these at this point. That being said, I want to keep my happy memory of the series, and I think that ending will be too hard for me to read

Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin



✔A Game of Thrones
✔A Clash of Kings
✔A Storm of Swords

Between the hype, long wait between books, and numerous spoilers I'm just done with this series

Elizabeth wrote: "Dune Chronicles - Frank Herbert



✔Dune
✔Dune Messiah
✔Children of Dune
✔God Emperor of Dune
*[book:Heretics of Dune|117..."

I read the first three and at the time the series was "supposed" to be complete. I think the series kind of deteriorated past Children.

Elizabeth wrote: "Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan



✔The Eye of the World

At 24 more books to go and the author dying so someone else having to finish the series ..."

My son keeps trying to get me to get into this series as he has read them all and all the "etcs". I barely finished Book One. The hero is soooooooooo whinnnnnny. I am told he does not improve as the series goes on. So I agree. NO.

Alexander wrote: "Too Spartan or akin to a movie too heavily focused on action and not enough character development? (The Last Witcher)"

Definitely the latter - I'm already someone who tends towards character development heavy books and this is definitely like....all plot no character development haha

momokaachan wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Dune Chronicles - Frank Herbert



✔Dune
✔Dune Messiah
✔Children of Dune
✔God Emperor of Dune
*[book:He..."

Yeah I vaguely remember God Emperor being my least favourite by a long shot, so it would make sense that it was written a lot later

momokaachan wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan



✔The Eye of the World

At 24 more books to go and the author dying so someone else having to ..."

Yeah he definitely wasn't my favourite. To be fair I don't think I really like any of the characters all that much which certainly didn't help the series' cause

Shadow Children - Margaret Peterson Haddix



✔Among the Hidden
✔Among the Impostors
✔Among the Betrayed
✔Among the Barons
✔Among the Brave
✔Among the Enemy
*Among the Free

As much as I've enjoyed this series, it's been like 15 years so I would have to reread the whole thing just to get to the last book

The Squire's Tale - Gerald Morris



I've read a bunch of these, and they were always pretty alright. But again, I've aged out of this a bit

Elizabeth wrote: "Outlander - Diana Gabaldon



✔Outlander

There's a lot with this series that doesn't work for me, and when the second book had a twenty year time jump and s..."

Watch out - if you like Season 2 on TV, the book is so much better!

Well maybe I'll give it another shot after I watch the show!

Elizabeth wrote: "Valdemar Mage Wars - Mercedes Lackey



✔The Black Gryphon

I just didn't feel like this book brought anything new to the table. No interested in r..."

I've had the entire Valdemar series on my shelves for ages. They've made it with me through three different moves, yet have I actually bothered to read them yet? I remember I did read this one and one other at some point. I'm wondering if I should just give up on them.

Try Arrows of the Queen - That is the book that started the whole Valdemar phenomenon. If you don't finish that, don't bother with the rest of it. If you do like it, finish that trilogy - Arrow's Flight, Arrow's Fall. If you survive that, read the Vanyel trilogy next a/k/a The Last Herald Mage. After that, you will be entrenched enough to read any of the other Valdemar books/series in any order you wish (although there are several websites glad to give you the chronological order). Trying to start with The Black Gryphon is incredibly confusing unless you know a bit about Valdemar to start with. Hope this helps!

Arrows of the Queen is the other one I read! I recall reading it in two days (this was years ago, far more years than I care to remember) and not being able to get to the bookstore again soon to pick up Arrow's Flight. By the time I did get it, I'd moved on to...The Blending? I think?

This did help, thanks!