Welcome back to Book Break! In this video we are talking about book series that we are so invested
in, and you're going to want to catch up on the series so far because there are new installments
coming soon of all of these. So I have arranged these in order from longest to shortest,
so the ones at the beginning of the video are the ones where you have a lot of books to catch up on
so far, working all the way down to some where there's only been one book in the series so far.
Even some where the series haven't yet started! So kicking off with a series that already has seven
books available for you to read so far, and there are more to come,
that's the Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman. So these are really really fun books,
and what's great about these ones is they do work as standalones, so you don't have to have read
every book in the series to enjoy them, but it is really fun to go through them all in order and
really get invested in the characters that way. We've actually done a whole video focusing on
this series before, I will link to that below. We went to Paris,
back when we were allowed to travel, to talk about one of the books in that series which was set
in a Paris library. The series overall is about Irene who is a librarian in this fantasy world,
so her job is to go into alternate realities and find rare copies of books that only exist
in those realities and bring them back to this magical library where she works. So she is really
a librarian spy. And you get these really exciting adventures, each book taking place in a different
city, a different time period, so you get loads of different worlds to explore. And there are
dragons! The next series I'm going to talk about is The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley. So there
are six books out so far, and book number seven is coming in May, so you're gonna have to read
fast to catch up. Basically in the story so far we have met six sisters, the adopted daughters
of the mysterious Pa Salt, who was a billionaire who adopted daughters from all around the world,
and each of them have had their own book that focuses on them as they try and track down their
own heritage, the mystery of where they came from, as well as finding clues in the ongoing
mystery of who was Pa Salt. And in the next book coming in May, it's called The Missing Sister, we
are going to meet the seventh sister. Then there's the Witchlands series by Susan Dennard. So there
are three books out so far: Truthwitch, Windwitch and Bloodwitch. And the fourth book, Witchshadow,
is coming this summer - and there are going to be more to come after that as well. So this series
is set in a continent ruled by three different empires, where everyone is born with a different
witchery, a specific magical skill that sets them apart. And where we meet them in this series,
a 20-year truce in a centuries-long war is about to come to an end. And another one for fantasy
lovers that also has three books you can read so far, with a fourth coming this year, is A Chorus
of Dragons by Jenn Lyons. So this series combines prophecy and magic and of course dragons. In the
first book we meet a young man who discovers that his fate will determine the future of an empire,
and you're going to have to read the first three to find out why book four, coming this year, finds
him and his allies trapped in a demonic prison. For middle grade readers there's the Adventures on
Trains series by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. So these are really fun. We follow our main character
Harrison Beck as he solves different mysteries on some of the world's grandest trains. So the
series started with The Highland Falcon Thief, then we had Kidnap on the California Comet,
book number three Murder on the Safari Star, and this year we are getting the fourth in the series
which is going to be called Danger at Dead Man's Pass. Then there's the City Blues Quartet by Ray
Celestin. This is a series of novels that again works really well as stand-alones. Combined they
are plotting the intertwined history of jazz and the mob through six decades of the 20th century,
but you can dive in to that history wherever you would like. So each book in this quartet is set
in a different city in a different decade. We have three out so far: The Axeman's Jazz is set in New
Orleans in the 1910s, Dead Man's Blues is Chicago in the 1920s, The Mobster’s Lament takes us to New
York in the 1940s, and there is a fourth book in the quartet coming which is going to take place
in LA in the 1960s. For something a bit more lighthearted, The Brown Sisters series has two
books out so far, and the third book Act Your Age, Eve Brown is coming out literally any minute now.
So these books by Talia Hibbert have been really really popular on BookTube, I'm sure you've seen
them all over the place. They are each romantic comedies, each following the romantic adventures
of one of the quirky Brown sisters. The Empire Game series by Charles Joss is a trilogy that is
wrapping up later this autumn with the final book. This is a series about paratime travelers who can
walk between parallel universes. If you've read the Family Trade series, this is set in the same
universe but it is a whole new generation so you can dive straight in and start with this one.
And then for some epic historical fiction there is the Burning Chambers series by Kate Moss.
So we have two books out in that series so far, The Burning Chambers and The City of
Tears. This is an incredibly sweeping series covering 300 years of history, taking us so
far from Paris to Amsterdam in this series. And who knows where we'll go next? Maybe I know!
(I don't know.) There is still time to catch up on the Children of Blood and Bone series by Tomi
Adeyemi so far before the third book comes out. So so far we have Children of Blood and Bone and
Children of Virtue and Vengeance. Again I'm sure you've seen these talked about all over BookTube,
they have been absolutely massive, and there is a movie adaptation coming as well so you're
gonna want to have read the books first. This is a young adult fantasy series based on West African
mythology set in a kingdom that has outlawed magic. The Gilded Wolves series by Roshani Chokshi
is an alternate history steeped in fantasy. So there is this incredible heist with clues along
the way that our main character and unlikely team of teenagers have to decipher. The Girls of Paper
and Fire series by Natasha Ngan is another young adult fantasy. In this world, every year eight
girls are chosen to serve the demon king - they become the paper girls. It's a high honor and
also a very cruel fate. But this year nine girls are chosen. So this is a series that really puts
young women at the centre, has a lot of strong characters, there are two books out so far and
the third book is coming this autumn. And now for some books that have sequels coming, so you only
have one book to catch up on so far. So a book I'm really excited about this summer is the sequel to
Dear Mrs Bird by A.J. Pearce. So that first book was about a young woman called Emmy, who during
the second world war gets a job working for an agony aunt called Mrs Bird who is very very strict
and doesn't answer a lot of the letters that she thinks are inappropriate. So Emmy decides to start
answering some of these letters herself, and it's a really really sweet story, absolutely loved it.
And there is a new book coming this summer called Yours Cheerfully where we're going to follow Emmy
onto her new role. You should read The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt to meet Alice, a young woman who
has been haunted all her life by visions of birds, until one day she meets a mysterious stranger who
tells her that she actually has a magical talent and she's been seeing night jars, these miraculous
birds that guard our souls. So this book is set in an incredible alternate london where Alice has to
hone her talents while being exposed to a dark world of magic and death cults. And the sequel
The Rookery is coming out this summer. I've talked quite a bit on this channel about A Memory called
Empire by Arkady Martine which was a science fiction debut that was so buzzed about,
it was award-winning, it won the Hugo award, it was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke award,
it's a book that balances action with intrigue and it's all about empire and identity. And the second
book, A Desolation called Peace is coming this year, so it's the perfect time to catch up. That's
been a pretty long list already so I'm going to finish off here by just giving you a heads up
on three series that are starting this year if you want to get involved right from the beginning.
So first you may have heard already of the book She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan.
That's one that's been really really buzzed about and highly anticipated on BookTube already.
It's been described as Circe meets Mulan. There's also The Library of the Dead coming
by T.L. Huchu that's going to be the first in the Edinburgh Nights series. So this is set in
Edinburgh and it's about a girl who works as a ghost talker. She listens to messages from the
dead and passes them on to the living, and that is going to get her involved in a dark otherworldly
mystery. And finally a book you can get right now is Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison. This is
basically Peaky Blinders in Glasgow. It's a dark historical crime murder mystery set in the 1930s,
and it introduces Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn, who we may be seeing a lot more of. So do
leave us a comment below letting us know your favorite series. Which books are you most highly
anticipating? And I will leave a link here to a video we made before on epic series in every
genre, so you can click through and have a look at that and we'll see you next time!