One of my resolutions for 2013 was to “read my favourites” – the books from series I loved that I hoarded away for a “rainy day”. What’s the point in keeping those books if I am not going to read them, you ask? … Fair point.
So this month, I am going to read the final books from the trilogies and series that I’ve loved. A lot of these books are going to elicit the reaction “OMG YOU HAVEN’T READ THAT YET?!” but… don’t judge me! As I mentioned in my resolutions post: I kinda have a problem.
The ones that have been on the shelves… a while:
- Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead – This is one of those series I loved so much I physically couldn’t pick it up. Instead, I checked out spoilers when it came out because the Rose/Dmitri/Adrian thing was too painful to sit through. I should really know better by now!
- Forever by Maggie Stiefvater – Again, stop it with the judging.
- Endgame by Ann Aguirre – I don’t want it to end!!!!
- Blue-Blooded Vamp by Jaye Wells – As above!
The new releases:
- With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent – Why no spin-off? Why??
- The Rising by Kelley Armstrong (not pictured) – I don’t know what my life is going to be like without a Darkest Powers/Darkness Rising release every year. No, really. I am rather at a loss.
Just putting this list together has made me rather emotional. Why must things end?? Why can’t writers just keep going and going and going? Why can’t my book series just continue on forever like Eastenders?? Why??
Michael Fassbender knows my pain.
To be honest, these aren’t even all my last-in-a-series books… I have more that I haven’t gotten to that I’ve left out out of fear of this post becoming a “confessions of book blogger”. On a happier note, if you are looking for a series/trilogy that I whole-heartedly recommend, check out any of these. They are all 5 star reads that deserve all the love they can get!
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Aww, I know what you mean! I couldn’t pick up The Last Sacrifice for ages! Same with Drake Chronicles…
Happy reading! And don’t forget you have the Bloodlines spin-off, which is just as amazing as VA! 🙂
Glad I’m not alone in my last-book hoarding!!! The only saving grace is the spin-off… I got Bloodlines when it first came out and thought “THANK YOU GOD FOR A SPIN-OFF”… wish there were a third Darkest Powers spin-off, but getting one was probably enough!
That’s such a great project. I should probably do something similar! Or maybe my project should be to start read the series that sit on my shelves, and that everyone has already read (Like Vampire Academy and Sirantha Jax… I know, I know!)
I am so sad, too, that there won’t be another Darkest Powers/Rising book, (even if I am one book behind), or a Soulscreamers one. Gosh I love those 🙁
Thanks! It is a rather awesome-yet-terrifying project, to be honest. I want to read these, but really, really don’t at the same time (which is why they’ve been sitting around so long).
And, YES. You need to read Grimspace and Vampire Academy!!! Not that I can judge, I also have quite a few of those everyone-loves-these-I-should-get-to-them series… I always feel like purchasing them should count towards reading them… it’s like a first step, right?? (I think my wallet would say, “No, the first step is admitting you have a problem.”)
The Darkest Powers/Rising ending really gets to me, actually… those books got me into YA and I was really hoping Armstrong would do a 3rd trilogy. 🙁
I really ought to have made a similar goal. There are probably a few dozen series that I’ve started and liked what I’ve thus far read, but for one reason or another I haven’t continued with it. I should make the time to finish up a few series over the next month. Or at least one series! One is better than none, right?!
One is about a billion times better than none (or so my justification goes!) This is the first time I’ve made a concerted effort to finish off my series, and it is really going well – totally recommend setting yourself a goal like this!
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