Hi guys, it's Olivia here from Olivia's Catastrophe and I'm so so so excited
because I get to announce something that I have been planning for
a very very long time. And that is a new series on my channel which is going to
be called Read it Backwards. So my idea is to read some of my favourite series.
And I'm gonna reread them, but read them starting from the last book in the
series and going all the way to the beginning. Why would you do that? First of
all, it's going to be testing my memory to see how much of the books I remember
and see if I can understand them if I read them backwards. I also want to try
and look at things like plot and character development and just seeing
how the author's writing style has changed starting from the last one to
the first one. Do the books get better as they go along or did they have a
fantastic beginning and then kind of peter out at the end? I'm also going to
be annotating my copies for the first time. And I just want to enjoy the
experience but also talk about it with some of you. So I've chosen my favourite
series and the videos are going to include spoilers. It's gonna be hard not
to include spoilers seeing as I'm starting from the end. And I'll be
talking about them in a lot of detail. I am expecting those videos to be long. So
just be prepared and be ready for that. I've decided that I wanted to do three
rounds of this. The first round is gonna be my favourite series. The second round
is gonna be series that I found mediocre. And the third round is gonna be
childhood favourite series which will get very difficult seeing as I'll probably
have less memory of them and reading them backwards will be chaotic. It has to
be a series that I've read from beginning to end. And I'm just going to
show you the first lot of series that I plan to do so that you know if you've
read these books already, you can probably watch these videos and
enjoy them. I will probably be releasing one video a month. Let's talk about
which series. And I'm gonna start with the series I intend to read backwards
first and then go to the ones that I'll be reading later down the line. So if you
watch my TBR video you can probably guess that the first series I'm gonna be
reading backwards is Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I don't know if I'm
gonna do The Short Life of Bree Tanner. But my plan is to read Breaking Dawn and
Eclipse in June and then to read the next two in the next month. And have the
videos come out one a month because if I do
I'll be finished with Twilight right before August starts. Qhich is perfect
because that's what Midnight Sun comes out. And it be great to be able to
compare the two in a video or something. So first of all I'm gonna start with
Twilight and then we're going to be moving on to the Percy Jackson series. I
think I read these when I was 13 or 14 and I have not reread this series since.
So it'll be very interesting to see what I can remember, what comes to mind and
whether those books still hold up for me after all this time. Then we'll be moving
on to the Raven cycle which is a series I think I will know immensely well. I
will not be including Call Down the Hawk in this so I'll definitely be reading the
Raven King to the Raven boys. And I think it's gonna be very interesting because I
know that Maggie Stiefvater did a lot of foreshadowing that I probably missed the
first time round. I have not reread this series since
reading it, except for Blue Lily Lily Blue which I reread once with somebody
who was reading it for the first time. So even though it's a favourite series of
mine of all time and I go on about it literally all the time,
I've never reread it. Next we've got the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
and that's one of the ones on this list that makes me the most anxious because I
read it a very long time ago. And I've heard that is actually not that great if
you read it when you're older. And I'll be reading it backwards and the last
book was my least favourite so... that's gonna be an interesting read it
backwards series. After that we've got The Lunar Chronicles and I kind of
messed up my reading of this series in the beginning because I've binge read it.
And I'm not a huge binge reader so by the time I got to Cress my enjoyment
really wasn't there. But I absolutely adored Winter and I want to know if I'm
gonna like Cress more upon rereading the series backwards. Next we've got the Chaos
Walking series by Patrick Ness. I absolutely love this series and I
actually enjoyed really binge reading this series. So I read them very very
close together. I think will be interesting to read these ones backwards
for the thematic reasons and I'll talk about that more, of course, in that read
it backwards. Then we've got the Gone series by Michael Grant. And I believe this is
gonna be one that less people have read but I absolutely loved the Gone series
when I was younger. I've reread that first book so many times It's probably
my most reread book since... excepting Twilight. And I reread it mostly when I
first read it. So it's been a couple of years. And I have never reread the
sequels in the series. It was such a good series. It just got
better and better with each book so I feel like it's gonna get worse and worse
with each reread. But we'll see when I reread the series. And then last but not
least we've got Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman which is again, one of my
favourite series of all time. But the one that sticks in my memory the most is the
first book. And when I was watching the TV series adoption recently this year,
I realised I don't remember as much as I think I do. So I'm looking forward to
rereading those ones backwards, seeing if they hold up. I purposely put the Gone
series and Noughts and Crosses at the end of this list because I don't own all the
books in the series. I was reading those two series back when I was still using
my library. So I only own like, the first book and a few sequels that I wanted to
get as soon as they came out. So there you have it. That is the concept for read it
backwards and we'll be starting this month with my read it backwards video
for Breaking Dawn. I am so excited to get started. I think it's gonna be a lot of
fun and I'll be curious to see what you guys make of the videos. And how I end up
formatting them and laying them out. So let me know in the comments section down
below if you had to reread one of your favourite series backwards which one
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know what they say: onwards and upwards. Excelsior!