Today is Top Ten Tuesday, sponsored by That Artsy Reader. Today’s theme is Series I’ve Given Up On, but since I don’t really have many of those, I’m modifying it a bit, and am doing Series I Want to Finish Someday (And One I Don’t). Since a lot of the series that I have been reading have recently finished, I don’t have a full 10 to give you, but I’ll give you what I have.
I just recently finished reading Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody (I hope to review it next week). This is the first book of a planned trilogy. Since the other two books in the series aren’t out yet, I can’t exactly read them yet.
I don’t know if I will buy the follow-on books or get them at the library yet, however. I only paid $1.99 for the first book on my Kindle; although I do plan on reading the remaining books in the series, I don’t know if it’s a book I want to read over and over and over again, like some of the books that I buy.
City of Bones is a series that I am currently on the waiting list for at the library. I’m currently #7 on the waiting list for the next book, City of Ashes. At some point I’ll get to the top of the waiting list and I’ll probably review a bunch of books from these series in quick succession.
While I didn’t give this book a five-star review, I did enjoy it, and (I peeked ahead) I’ve read some excerpts from her later books and am looking forward to getting to them. Someday…
An Ember in the Ashes is the first book of Sabaa Tahir’s tetralogy. I just read her first three books for the first time this month, and I absolutely love them! I’m looking forward to the last book coming out next year, especially since the characters are still in distress, and I’m hoping that Ms. Tahir helps them save themselves and at least lets them be a little happy (if not, there’s always fanfiction).
I definitely plan on pre-ordering this one as soon as it becomes available. Since the last book in the series A Reaper at the Gates, just came out, I don’t know when that will be.
Warcross is the first book in Marie Lu’s latest series. I pre-ordered this on April 10th this year (only reason I know is because it was the day that The Fates Divide came out, which was another book that I eagerly looked forward too).
Out of the three series that I’m looking forward to reading, this is the one that I’m looking forward to the most. Fortunately, I only have to wait until September to read it (less than 3 months now!).
The One Series I Don’t Plan on Continuing…
I won’t say that I will never read the rest of the Illuminae series, but I don’t have any plans to do so any time soon. If I do continue reading these, it will not be on the Kindle.
This book was really difficult to read on my Kindle. The concept is pretty cool. There are different files to read, and it is very graphic. It doesn’t translate to the Kindle well at all, because I wasn’t able to resize the pages, making it hard to read. There were graphic pages where the words swirled around, which were also difficult to read on a Kindle.
I think what disappointed me the most about Illuminae, however (the Kindle visual problems are quite easy to fix by reading these books in hardback) was how in the very middle of the book, the story completely pissed me off. I can’t say why without giving away spoilers, but I went to google the ending in order to find out whether it was worth finishing or not; even then, I put down the book, went to bed, and finished it the next day.
As far as I know, the next books aren’t continuations of this story, but tell the story from a different angle, I don’t think I’m going to finish. I’m not interested enough to continue reading this book at the moment.