I used to read series all the time in highschool – I miss the way twilight & the house of night series made me feel 🥲 I’ve tried Sarah j mass so please no suggesting her, and absolutely no Colleen Hoover..I’m not sure if she has series but I know she has sequels so I figured I better mention her too.
I’m not huge on fantasy. I can deal with vampires but I’m not into the whole fae/warlock/hierarchy type stuff.
I love thrillers but don’t like gore or graphic descriptions. I like romance. A few of my favorite books are the Great alone by Kristen Hannah, the Nightinggale by Kristen Hannah, The green mile by Stephen king, the invisible life of Addie larue.
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The first series I thought of was The Selection by Kiera Cass. It’s a romance sort of like the bachelor but told from the perspective of one of the women chosen. It’s kinda Hunger Games style the way they are chosen, and takes place in sort of a post-world setting. Still our human world but way in the future after everything has been rebuilt following a war, and reverted back to monarchy
Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Lois McMaster Bujold, have some really great vampire/shifter/magic books. They don’t shy from gore, guts, carnage, difficult social issues, and the romance varies from closed-door to medium-hot spice. Each of the series listed below has at least three books, most of them are between 10-20 books. Each have fantastic, well-developed characters.
The Guild Hunter Series (vampires, angels, and zombies, oh my), and the Psy-Changling series (kinda a borg-meets-shifter theme) by Nalini Singh.
Kate Daniels series (post apocolyptic magic vs tech sword fighting and lion taming), the Hidden Legacy Books (genetically modified humans making a mess of texas, oh and telekinetic shmexy skills), the Inn Keeper Chronicles (interplanetary B&B), by Ilona Andrews.
The Mercy Thompson books, and the spin-off series Alpha Omega by Patricia Briggs. Werewolves, vampires, demons, fae (not like Maas), some witches, some zombies, and supernatural deities drawn from a dozen or so cultures. Told from the perspective of Mercy, a shifter and VW mechanic, who sets the example for girls everywhere. I’m an adult, and I still want to be her when I grow up. AO is a spin-off that has a lot more werewolves, more witches, less spice, and the last book was THE scariest book I’ve ever read in my life. (I read Stephen King, not a lot but some. My friend is a horror fanatic, and she said she almost couldn’t finish it.) Super fun world, next to the Vorkosigan series described below, these books are my personal fave.
The World of the Five Gods books (which also has a spin-off novella series), The Sharing Knife, by Lois McMaster Bujold. She also has an extended scifi series that I HIGHLY recommend, even if sci-fi isn’t your usual go to (it isn’t my fav genre, and I LOVE this one) called the Vorkosigan series. It’s got love, suspense, drama, space travel, and is hilarious in parts to boot. Binged 16 books in a month.
Another vote for anything by Bujold. World of the Five Gods does not have fae or warlocks.
KJ Charles writes both historical and fantasy m/m romance with awesome plots, dialogue and consent. Good research, too. Try Band Sinister (Regency) or The Magpie Lord (Victorian fantasy–no fae).
Heather Rose Jones has a fantasy f/f romance series. The first one is called *Daughter of Mystery*.
For thrillers try the Modesty Blaise books by Peter O’Donnell.
The Button Box series by Stephen King
3 book series
*not horror and it sucks you right into the story
Book of Ember by Jeanne Du Prau
4 book series
*really easy read with (young) characters that won’t annoy you….much lol
The Golum and The Jinni by Helen Wecker
2 book series
*a touch melancholy throughout the tone, but the characters are very easy to love and root for
the mortal instruments!! such a good series
Have you read The Hunger Games series? I’m rereading them now and they surprisingly hold up well.