Top 5 SFF Tetralogies
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- I've come to realize that although I like series of all different lengths, the series length that has been the most consistently great for me, are four book series or tetralogies. This is the list of my favorite tetralogies.
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My list is
1. Faithful and the Fallen
2. Dandelion Dynasty
3. Greatcoats
4. Long Price Quarter
5. Moontide Quartet by David Hair
I wanted to like Long Price Quartet so badly, but I just couldn't get into the first book. I'll have to look up the Moontide Quartet. I haven't heard anyone talk about that series before.
@@PatrickRyanBookReviews andy smith did a rave reviews for it.
I am still so flabbergasted that War for the Rose Throne was such a hit for you, haha. And oooh dang why I have I still not read Greatcoats and Super Powereds?!?!
Some of my favourite tetralogies are Dandelion Dynasty, The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, Rainwild Chronicles, and the Long Price Quartet!
lol, no one was more surprised about me liking WftRT than I was! I put it off for so long because it's so against everything I look for.
I'm quite nervous for whenever you do try Super Powereds and give Greatcoats another chance.
I'm just about to finish Rainwilds (Starting book 4 now) but unfortunately it's never going to be on one of my top 10 lists. I side more with Andrew and Niko on that one. I wanted to like Dandelion Dynasty, but DNF'd about 15% into book 3. I kind of lost interest when my favorite characters all died. LPQ is another I really wanted to like, but couldn't get into the first book.
@@PatrickRyanBookReviews And I can totally see why you bounced off all of those haha. We generally have pretty similar tastes, but these are a few of those examples where I just tend to be a bit more unconventional in my reading tastes hahah.
And I will definitely let you know whenever I pick up those two series!
Greatcoats!
War for the rose throne!!
Mother of Learning!!!
All so good!!!
I love Super Powereds! You can tell it's Drew Hayes's early work but it's still SO GOOD.
I honestly think I prefer longer series that go over 5 books
I wish more people on Booktube would give Drew Hayes a try. He’s so good but I almost never see anyone else talking about him.
You’ll have to revise the list after we finish Blood of Dragons because that’s obviously going to be your new number one 😜
Dandelion Dynasty is definitely my favorite four book series then probably FATF or mistborn era two.
lol, Rain Wilds is in a league of it's own!
Mistborn Era 2 was 6th on my list. It might have beaten out FatF except that when I rank series, I always give a preference to a series you can start today without picking up anything else first.
I wished I liked Dandelion Dynasty more, but the writing style didn't work well for me and then I lost interest after book two when my favorite characters all died.
@@PatrickRyanBookReviews Ohh okay, I was wondering where Era 2 would rank in this for you.
Dandelion Dynasty is one of those series I love but rarely recommend just because I feel like it’s such a toss up if someone will jive with his writing style or not.
Great video! Currently reading Faithful and the Fallen, really enjoying it a lot. Just finished Ruin half an hour ago. What specific writing technique are you talking about that made you enjoy the books less?
Read 2 or 3 years back War for the Rose Throne but the 1st book was just such a massive copy of Peaky Blinders, it was a bit disheartening. Afterwards it comes into its own, true enough. Greatcoats is also a fun series that I recently read, few months back.
Mother of Learning is high on my TBR but probably not going to happen anymore this year with a Stormlight Archive reread upcoming and some Historical Fiction that I really need to get to.
I was fortunate to have never even heard of Peaky Blinders until after reading Priest of Bones. Maybe if it was the other way around, I would have had the same problem.
I hope you enjoy MoL as much as I did whenever you get to it. Are you planning on listening to the audiobook or going the ebook route?
As for FatF, it was the constant fade to black that got on my nerves. Unless someone was decapitated, I assumed they were still alive. It got to the point where I no longer thought characters were ever in really danger because anytime it looked like they might have died, they would just wake up a few chapters laters.
@@PatrickRyanBookReviews Haha, I just read one of the first few chapters in the final book and someone seemed to have a flutter of a heartbeat after all, despite pretty much getting destroyed in the previous book. I was also thinking that it was a bit lame they were still alive so I can understand where you are coming from 😀
As for MoL, I only do ebooks. I'm not a native English speaker and I have some attention issues, I cannot sit still and listen to an audiobook, I gotta DO something in the meantime so I'm afraid I will miss things. I recently started my first audiobook with Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, which I already read half a dozen times or so, so I don't worry too much about missing a detail here or there.
I can't rate Faithful and the Fallen higher, namely because I haven't read it yet. I have heard so many great things about it, that I am actually scared to pick it up at this point. I fear my expectations are too high. ;p
I don't think I have any specific preferred length to a series. As long as things don't feel repetitive, it can go on as long as need be.
I definitely think FatF has been overhyped. There are some things it does very well, but other things I feel it missed the mark on. If I was to rate the series as a whole, I would give it 4 stars.