Hello and welcome to another edition of Fangirling on Friday, where I fangirl over some of my favorite books. It’s hosted by Books In the Skye. You can make your own lists too if you’d like. Today’s prompt is “First Series” which I’m not exactly sure what that means, so I’m going to write about series where the first books hooked me and made me want to read more.
One book that hooked me from the beginning was The 5th Wave. It was one of my favorite books of the year when I read it. I just had to read the rest of the series. Sadly, although I loved this book, the rest of the series was just… okay. I was kinda hoping that it would go in a different direction. The ending of the series was… satisfactory. It wasn’t so bad that I felt I had to write fix-it fanfiction, but it wasn’t the ending that would leave me fangirling for years. Although the first book… loved it!
Oh how I loved Flame in the Mist! It was the first Renée Ahdieh book I read and this is definitely a book I could fangirl over! I enjoyed Smoke in the Sun (and loved how the duology ended) but it didn’t have quite the magic that the first book did for me. I remember reading it at work, getting to a really good part, and then I’d have to go back to work. I couldn’t stop thinking about the book while I was at work. I just love books that you just can’t stop thinking about, and this was one of them. Sometimes I still feel the need to read certain passages again.
It’s not a secret that I love Divergent. After I read the first 50 pages, I just couldn’t put this book down. When I went home, I finished this book, read the beginning of Insurgent, went to bed, and the next day finished Insurgent and Allegiant, going to bed at four in the morning in tears. Although I hated the last little bit of Allegiant, this book drug me into YA and I’ve been a fangirl over this book for years. I own the first book in the series in four languages. I even dressed as Tris to the Insurgent movie premiere.
I’ve read the complete series for all the books above, but a book I’ve read recently that I haven’t read the ending to is Sky Without Stars. J’adore this book! While it didn’t end quite on a cliffhanger, I really have to find out what happens! I hope to get my hands on a copy of it’s sequel, Between Burning Worlds, as soon as possible. Which probably won’t be until some time next year, but when it does come out, I plan to read it. And I hope I gush over the sequel as much as I did the first book.
So what book series drug you in with the first book? Next week we’re going to talk about my favorite book I read in April. Wow, it’s already that time? I have a feeling I know which book that’s going to be, but I’m probably going to finish one more book between now and the end of the month, so we’ll see if the book I loved the best so far remains my favorite.