My favourite book series

Welcome back !!

Hope you all have had a good week, before we start I am so sad that Alan Rickman died this week such a sad loss because as you are about to find out I love Harry Potter.

So as promised this week I am going to share with you my favourite book series but instead of 5 it's going to be 6 because I found it so hard to choose.

First series is The Land Of Stories by Chris Colfer
This is a fantasy book series that is aimed at 9-12 years old but I still love it. It's about twins, Alex and Connor, who get given a book of fairy tales by their grandmother, then one day they get transported into this fairy tale world and the first book is all about them trying to get home and along the way we meet all the fairy tale characters that we have grown up with and love. From there the series just is about all different adventures the twins have in The Land of Stories. Currently there are 4 books The Wishing Spell, The Enchantress Returns, A Grimm Warning and Beyond the Kingdom and 2 novellas, The Mother Goose Diaries and Queen Red Riding Hood's Guide to Royalty, hopefully the 5th book is out later this year, which I cannot wait for because book 4 ended on such a cliff-hanger.

Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Probably one of the most popular book series in history and one of the first book series I ever read. If you do not know this is a series about a boy named Harry Potter who finds out for he's a wizard and the series is about him growing up and fighting dark wizards. There are 7 books in the series Philosophers Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows. There are also 3 little novellas which are The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Qudditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them (Cannot wait for the movie to come out). I love this book series the only reason why this is not number one on this list is because it has been a long time since I have read it and am currently re reading the series.

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
This was a new discovery last year and I loved it. Once again it is a fantasy series about a trained assassin called Celaena Sardothien who gets taken out of prison by the Crown Prince to compete and become the Kings Assassin. This series has magic, romance, major twists and fantastic character development. Currently there are 4 books in the series Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire and Queen of Shadows as well as a group of prequel novellas called The Assassins Blade which is also very good. The 5th book is due out in September of this year which I cannot wait for to see where this world and story is going next.

 

Divergent Series by Veronica Roth

I enjoyed this series quite a lot it's a dystopian book series about a girl called Tris who leaves her family to join another group and during this process she learns that she is divergent which means she fits into more than one group and the series follows the implications of that. I can understand the problems people have with this book apart from one major thing and that's how it ends, I think the end of this series is amazing and very brave by the author I have never seen it done in any other book series that I have read. This is made up of 3 books Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant and one novella called Four.

 

 

The Bone Season Series by Samantha Shannon

I love the concept of this series it is about a girl who is clairvoyant and works as a in the criminal underworld of a future London. She gets kidnapped and taken to a secret place that is controlled by a outworld race. This book is about her trying to get home and the implications of this out world race being in our world. I did find the 2nd book a bit slow in parts and I think it could have been condensed down a bit but it was worth in the end with how this book ended. For now there are only 2 books currently out and these are The Bone Season and The Mime Order however the 3rd book The Song Rising is out this year, once again I cannot wait to see how this world and story is going to develop.

 

 



 

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Last book series and another highly popular book series. I admit I tried reading these because I saw them in a charity shop and bought them and I could not get into it at all it dragged a lot. However I saw Catching Fire when that came into cinema because I was interested (I hadn't watched Hunger Games) which then encouraged me to read the books because I really wanted to know what happened in Mockingjay in particular which killed me and waiting for the film part 2 seemed like an eternity. I enjoyed reading it after watching the films and this is a very rare time where I did find the films better than the books but I would still advise people to give this series a go though and draw their own opinions.

 

Hope you enjoyed discovering my favourite books series and I hope you find a new favourite in this post and/or last weeks. Enjoy the rest of your week until next time.

 

Loves and Hugs xxx

Stacey