3:14 Tier ranking categories 4:52 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries 5:23 An Ember in the Ashes 5:48 Divine Rivals 6:09 Mistborn: The Final Empire 6:41 A Study in Drowning 7:08 Crescent City Series 7:59 The Name of the Wind 8:32 A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent 8:55 The Serpent and the Wings of Night 9:39 Vicious 10:06 King of Scars 10:42 Wicked Fox 11:11 Sorcery of Thorns 11:28 Stardust 11:49 One Dark Window 12:18 The Infernal Devices 12:32 Strange the Dreamer 12:49 Howl's Moving Castle 13:01 Twilight 13:34 An Enchantment of Ravens 13:58 Throne in the Dark 14:26 Caraval 14:47 Half a Soul 14:55 The Hobbit 15:08 The Lord of the Rings 15:28 Percy Jackson Book 1 15:46 The House in the Cerulean Sea 16:24 Once Upon a Broken Heart 16:55 Heartless 17:17 Throne of Glass 17:56 Legendborn 18:25 Six Crimson Cranes 18:46 These Violent Delights 19:03 The Dark Artifices Series 19:33 From Blood & Ash 20:21 The Night Circus 21:11 The Starless Sea 21:25 Shadow and Bone 21:56 The Bane Chronicles 22:10 Serpent & Dove 22:32 Ghosts of the Shadow Market 22:51 Warbreaker 23:17 The Emperor's Soul 23:31 ACOTAR 23:45 The Near Witch 23:55 Thorn Hedge 24:05 A Darker Shade of Magic 24:30 The Last Hours 24:58 Babel 25:04 Under the Whispering Door 25:18 Kingdom of the Wicked 25:58 A Far Wilder Magic 26:31 Ten Thousand Stitches 26:49 Vampire Academy 26:56 Daughter of the Moon Goddess 27:41 The Ocean at the End of the Lane 28:13 The Cruel Prince 28:40 The Way of Kings 29:04 Six of Crows 29:14 Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy 29:23 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 29:32 The Priory of the Orange Tree 30:03 The Mortal Instruments 30:08 Carry On 30:15 Tress of the Emerald Sea 30:49 This Savage Song 30:57 The Plated Prisoner Series 31:45 Final Rating
Hot take - I feel like real SJM girlies are few and far between. Her series are so different, I don't know many non-influencers who genuinely like all 3. I'm a TOG fanatic, but struggled to get through ACOTAR and don't have plans to pick up Crescent City🙃
Imo SJM just just copy pastes her plots and characters. I read acotsr too and she truly just did the same plot for tog after book 5 than she did with the last of the acotar trilogy. Everything is the same! Even sentences are repeated (with a little rephrasing)! I was a fan of the first tog books but it turned into something I didn't enjoy. Though I haven't read crescent city, but it just feels too familiar. The main character is just a copy of Aelin with a sprinkle of Feyre. So...
So true. I haven’t read crescent city yet but I love ToG and have two books left in that series. Acotar gets better with each book but is overrated sooooo much imho ❤
I quite like acotar (as in the first one), but tbh the other two books in the trilogy are so boring and I don’t know if I can push myself to read a court of silver flames
I totally agree, I started with Acotar and completely loved it, so when I got to ToG I was dragging between books, because it felt to similar, and I don't intend to read Crescent City, at least for now
Katie you have become one of my absolute favourite booktubers.🌸I absolutely love every single one of your videos and they bring me so much comfort. Watching this video was so much fun.💫
Agreed! This series is getting better as it goes on. like I hate cinder and I gave it 2 stars but I love Scarlet and Cress so freaking much. Obsessed with those two
I totally get how you feel about once upon a broken heart! The first was a four star for me and the last two were five stars! I love Evangeline and Jacks so so much!
oh my god i really love throne of glass and kingdom of the wicked. tog would be on my top tier. i so am sjm girly. but it was so fun to see how you ranked them. other than that, i 90% agree with how you rank the others. would like you to this every year though. its nice to see a recommendation in a different way. i dont want this video to end honestly, it was so so fun!
wanted to thank you for all your videos, binging your content from the last 2 years kept me sane in my exam season!! our tastes are very different a lot of the time, my top tier would have: The Raven Cycle, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Skulduggery Pleasant, The Mortal Instruments, Pandora Hearts, D.Gray-man; and my second tier: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Carry On, The Emerald Atlas, The Dark Artifices, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Kuroshitsuji, Kaiju no.8; my lowest tier would have to include: Gallant, Half Life, Throne Of Glass, Children of Blood and Bone, Shades of Magic, Howl's Moving Castle (I really like the film but not the book), and controversially Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, The Infernal Devices and The Last Hours (I'm currently reading Chain of Thorns, and it's the only one of the series I'm genuinely enjoying)
Katie, I have only read one Fantasy, "A Fate Inked in Blood" and absolutely loved it. This is the video I have been looking for to help me choose a series to read. Your tier ranking videos are my favorite!
have been waiting for this kind of video! have my phone on hand so i can write down recs. you’re one of the few i can trust for book recs especially fantasy recs 💚
Marissa Meyer is my guilty pleasure. I can’t help it I love every single one of her books. Especially the lunar chronicles which I am thinking of rereading.
I’m 46 years old and agree with this 100%! Loved Lunar Chronicles, Gilded, Instant Karma…I have to read Curse still and just finished Renegades. She’s an auto-buy author for me. Guilty pleasure.
If you liked heartless I would definitely recommend reading the lunar chronicles. I haven't read Heartless so I can't compare it but the lunar chronicles are retelling books that are super unique and they also have great characters!
we have vastly different taste (some of my favourite books of all time are in your meh category and some that I DNFed are in your all time favourites!) but I really enjoy hearing about what you love or don’t in a book! and I completely agree that Vicious by VE Schwab is one of the most excellent fantasies!
Prison Healer series is one of my all time favourite YA fantasy series. I don’t read that much YA anymore but I was obsessed with that series when I read it last year
Ohh tier ranking every fantasy series fun. The only books I would change would be Tress of the Emerald Sea and Vampire Academy to so fun! Six Crimson Cranes would be almost, but not quite.
I’m a new subscriber and wow… we have pretty much the exact same taste. 😳 I would have ranked these almost the exact same way. There’s a couple listed I haven’t read yet… I now trust you for book recs so I’m adding these to my TBR asap!
I feel the same way about Crescent City, it just *slightly* misses the mark for me. The first book was a solid 4.5 stars (for me) but the 2nd one barely made it into 4 star category-because of the amount of detail that went into it
Who actually thought mortal instruments was okay. That book hurt me - like what in the incest? why did it have to exist? And now I’m too scared to read any other Cassandra Clare book
As someone who LOVED Samantha Shannon’s TPOTOT, I’m telling you that the prequel is like 200 times better! I’d say it took the ‘mistakes’ of TPOTOT and learnt from them, creating a story that was incredible with such lovable and well-written characters it was hard to put the book down (for me, at least haha). So if you ever feel like reading some reaaally good 800+ pages high fantasy, A Day of Fallen Night is a fantastic choice :))
So as someone who would’ve put Priory in the integral part of my personality category I recommend A Day of Fallen Night lol but if you didn’t love Priory, I don’t know if it’ll be that different of an experience. Personal fave though.
For T.Kingfisher you should definitely read the sworn soldier series if you want horror or the sain of steel series for romance! I read both of them and finished them so quickly, they were so entertaining and they had such good storylines
Our reading tastes and thoughts are so similar! I saw so many people talk about A Study In Drowning with such positive reviews and I got totally suckered into the hype and it was just so meh for me. My favourite series are Veronica Speedwell, Villains & Virtues and The War of Lost Hearts! My absolute favourites!!!
I was confused why Stardust and Night Circus were in this video. I thought it only includes fantasy series. Were these books part of a series? Were they not standalones?
Title was edited. Yey. Thank you! Also, I am happy that the Villains duology (now a trilogy) is at the top. Although, as a VE Schwab fan, I would probably put most of her books at the top tier. 😂
I'm so glad the UA-cam algorithm brought me to this video! I haven't read as many fantasy books as you, but the ones you loved/enjoyed and thought were "meh" I completely agreed with! I definitely added a few to my TBR based on your rankings and can't wait to watch your other videos
If you want to give T Kingfisher another try, read Nettle and Bone! IMO her most mature work, loved the writing and it's fun but also tackles some serious things
i’m halfway through Gold rn (5th in the Plated Prisoner series) and i’ve been really dragging my feet with this one. it’s become the book i pick up when i’m super bored and am in between other books. i think the series could have been so good if she made it 3 books, but there are just so many places in the series where she unnecessarily dragged everything out and now she’s saying it’ll be a 7 book series and i might DNF because of that
This was really fun! Fantasy is my favorite genre and I added a few more to my TBR from watching this 😊I enjoyed Priory okay, but I liked A Day of Fallen Night a lot more. So if you do ever decide it’s time, I think it’s worth reading the prequel!
Just finished this newly released, original collection of fairy tales, entitled 'Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles' - it was phenomenal and just perfect for the season. You guys would love it! What's everyone else reading, I want some more recommendations to add to the lovely ones here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)
my top 'an integral part of my personality' book series and standalones: the infernal devices and the last hours by cassandra clare the shatter me series by tahereh mafi the once upon a broken heart trilogy by stephanie garber the acotar series by sjm the red queen series by victoria aveyard the secret history by donna tartt better than the movies by lynn painter icebreaker by hannah grace sorcery of thorns by margaret rogerson the book thief by markus zusak
I've yet to read Caraval, but I hated Once Upon a Broken Heart. Genuinely. Gave the first book 2 stars and the other 2 1,5 stars. Now I hear you say Caraval is worse than OUABH. It just got bumped down very significantly on my tbr lol
67 is quite impressive. This was fun, though I'm not familiar with a good chunk of the YA ones. Shadow and Bone, I tried and . . . I wasn't impressed. The world was awesome, and the story made no sense. The ending in particular . . . ick. (Does it get better?) Percy Jackson I'd personally put way, way up there because as a kid, I read that series 3-4 times and it was a blast each time.
when it comes to SJM i feel like if you read ACOTAR first you're gonna like it better than TOG and vice-versa. i read TOG first and it is still my favorite series and i had such expectations for ACOTAR but I literally couldnt finish the series, it had so much potential but it's just "meh" for me, especially after the masterpiece that is TOG🙇🏻♀️ crescent city that same as acotar, the books are unnecessarily long and nothing really made me invested i didnt even read the one just released😢
Yes you can skip it and just read the internal devices as it takes place in the 19th century. But just a heads up some characters appear in the mortal instruments if you were to finish it so they the are some ties with that series.
For me, from blood and ash series would be an integral part of my personality and the infernal devices would be meh😂 to me it was giving I would love it in middle school or high school. Wasn’t terrible but not a favorite
Some of my TBR for the year: - 3rd book of from blood and ash - 2nd book of serpent and dove - last book of kingdom of the wicked... Katiee, why make me suffer? xd
I like this new you❤ I always love the vibe of your videos but feel like you are trying to be nice and don’t give us any real criticisms but in this one you are so real and fun❤
This feels embarrassing but is there a video out there explaining the book girlie world? What the acronyms mean, how you decide what is a 5 star is etc? Also just trying to find channels that read the vibes I like to read and I love all the cute girls I've been watching but I really want to find somewhere that dislikes romantic plots as much as I do 😅
An Ember is the Ashes 😬 good luck. I loved the first two books (4 ⭐ and 5 ⭐) but the last two 😬 absolute mess. I feel the exact same way as you about the Gild series.
I love your videos so much but we definitely don't have the same taste. I gave the Infernal devices trilogy 2 stars as a whole so I think that sums it up
I’m currently reading the Mortal Instruments but it’s boring the hell out of me idk if I should finish it or jump to the Infernal Devices 😭 (LOVED THE VID BTW)
omg i'm on book 3 like 3 months ago and can't get myself to pick it up. i'm not even half of that book yet. i dont know why clary is so annoying specially there. but at the same time i really want to read tid.
Skip to the infernal devices! The TMI books were the ones that got me back into reading a couple years back but I can see they can be boring. I hope that doesn't stop you from picking up TID!!
@@Jlikesbooks42 no problem 🥰 from someone that has read every shadowhunter book except a few novellas & chain of thorns, i don't think you need to read all TMI books especially if you're bored to get to the TID
After finishing HOFAS and discussions with others on socials, I seriously think that SJM and her team ended HOSAB the way they did because if they hadn't...only true CC fans would have kept reading. I enjoyed HOEAB but the rest of the series....yeah who greenlighted this.
the second i saw your placement of the house in the cerulean sea and ACOTAR i just knew we had different tastes bc THITCS book is the sole book on this list that is my entire personality 😂 and ACOTAR was full of toxic relationships and just incredibly meh
it's kinda funny bc looking at books that you love i would BLINDLY tell that you are a throne of glass girly skldjlksadj less romance more high fantasy idk jsdkjskdl it's shocking🤣 i actually will never understand why people started hating on mortal instruments asdjsakdjk it's still my fav series from the author (okay inc🙅st plot is awful but i guess i just forget about it XD i spoiled myself before reading) 🤣🤣there was a time in book community when it was as well loved as acotar and shatter me 😂
for fun: my top tier: acotar, throne of glass, fourth wing, shatter me, heaven official's blessing, bone season, The Inheritance Cycle i really don't like: The Priory of the Orange Tree, The Night Circus
Katie: I haven't read enough series *proceeds to talk about 67(!) series*
Girl that is impressive as hell!
3:14 Tier ranking categories
4:52 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
5:23 An Ember in the Ashes
5:48 Divine Rivals
6:09 Mistborn: The Final Empire
6:41 A Study in Drowning
7:08 Crescent City Series
7:59 The Name of the Wind
8:32 A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
8:55 The Serpent and the Wings of Night
9:39 Vicious
10:06 King of Scars
10:42 Wicked Fox
11:11 Sorcery of Thorns
11:28 Stardust
11:49 One Dark Window
12:18 The Infernal Devices
12:32 Strange the Dreamer
12:49 Howl's Moving Castle
13:01 Twilight
13:34 An Enchantment of Ravens
13:58 Throne in the Dark
14:26 Caraval
14:47 Half a Soul
14:55 The Hobbit
15:08 The Lord of the Rings
15:28 Percy Jackson Book 1
15:46 The House in the Cerulean Sea
16:24 Once Upon a Broken Heart
16:55 Heartless
17:17 Throne of Glass
17:56 Legendborn
18:25 Six Crimson Cranes
18:46 These Violent Delights
19:03 The Dark Artifices Series
19:33 From Blood & Ash
20:21 The Night Circus
21:11 The Starless Sea
21:25 Shadow and Bone
21:56 The Bane Chronicles
22:10 Serpent & Dove
22:32 Ghosts of the Shadow Market
22:51 Warbreaker
23:17 The Emperor's Soul
23:31 ACOTAR
23:45 The Near Witch
23:55 Thorn Hedge
24:05 A Darker Shade of Magic
24:30 The Last Hours
24:58 Babel
25:04 Under the Whispering Door
25:18 Kingdom of the Wicked
25:58 A Far Wilder Magic
26:31 Ten Thousand Stitches
26:49 Vampire Academy
26:56 Daughter of the Moon Goddess
27:41 The Ocean at the End of the Lane
28:13 The Cruel Prince
28:40 The Way of Kings
29:04 Six of Crows
29:14 Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
29:23 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
29:32 The Priory of the Orange Tree
30:03 The Mortal Instruments
30:08 Carry On
30:15 Tress of the Emerald Sea
30:49 This Savage Song
30:57 The Plated Prisoner Series
31:45 Final Rating
Thanks so much for this!!
Thank you! What a hero 🤩🙌🏼
Thanks.
Just Starless sea is at 21:11
Thank you!!! I wonder how long it took you to write it all
so real that u had the least to say about ur absolute faves because u know they’re that good when they leave u speechless
Hot take - I feel like real SJM girlies are few and far between. Her series are so different, I don't know many non-influencers who genuinely like all 3. I'm a TOG fanatic, but struggled to get through ACOTAR and don't have plans to pick up Crescent City🙃
Imo SJM just just copy pastes her plots and characters. I read acotsr too and she truly just did the same plot for tog after book 5 than she did with the last of the acotar trilogy. Everything is the same! Even sentences are repeated (with a little rephrasing)! I was a fan of the first tog books but it turned into something I didn't enjoy.
Though I haven't read crescent city, but it just feels too familiar. The main character is just a copy of Aelin with a sprinkle of Feyre. So...
So true. I haven’t read crescent city yet but I love ToG and have two books left in that series. Acotar gets better with each book but is overrated sooooo much imho ❤
I feel the same way
I quite like acotar (as in the first one), but tbh the other two books in the trilogy are so boring and I don’t know if I can push myself to read a court of silver flames
I totally agree, I started with Acotar and completely loved it, so when I got to ToG I was dragging between books, because it felt to similar, and I don't intend to read Crescent City, at least for now
Katie you have become one of my absolute favourite booktubers.🌸I absolutely love every single one of your videos and they bring me so much comfort. Watching this video was so much fun.💫
Katie you should read The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer, those books are awesome 🫶🏾✨
Agreed! This series is getting better as it goes on. like I hate cinder and I gave it 2 stars but I love Scarlet and Cress so freaking much. Obsessed with those two
YES! One of my favorite series of all time
I totally get how you feel about once upon a broken heart! The first was a four star for me and the last two were five stars! I love Evangeline and Jacks so so much!
oh my god i really love throne of glass and kingdom of the wicked. tog would be on my top tier. i so am sjm girly. but it was so fun to see how you ranked them. other than that, i 90% agree with how you rank the others. would like you to this every year though. its nice to see a recommendation in a different way. i dont want this video to end honestly, it was so so fun!
wanted to thank you for all your videos, binging your content from the last 2 years kept me sane in my exam season!!
our tastes are very different a lot of the time, my top tier would have: The Raven Cycle, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Skulduggery Pleasant, The Mortal Instruments, Pandora Hearts, D.Gray-man;
and my second tier: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Carry On, The Emerald Atlas, The Dark Artifices, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Kuroshitsuji, Kaiju no.8;
my lowest tier would have to include: Gallant, Half Life, Throne Of Glass, Children of Blood and Bone, Shades of Magic, Howl's Moving Castle (I really like the film but not the book), and controversially Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, The Infernal Devices and The Last Hours (I'm currently reading Chain of Thorns, and it's the only one of the series I'm genuinely enjoying)
Katie, I have only read one Fantasy, "A Fate Inked in Blood" and absolutely loved it. This is the video I have been looking for to help me choose a series to read. Your tier ranking videos are my favorite!
have been waiting for this kind of video! have my phone on hand so i can write down recs. you’re one of the few i can trust for book recs especially fantasy recs 💚
Marissa Meyer is my guilty pleasure. I can’t help it I love every single one of her books. Especially the lunar chronicles which I am thinking of rereading.
I’m 46 years old and agree with this 100%! Loved Lunar Chronicles, Gilded, Instant Karma…I have to read Curse still and just finished Renegades. She’s an auto-buy author for me. Guilty pleasure.
If you liked heartless I would definitely recommend reading the lunar chronicles. I haven't read Heartless so I can't compare it but the lunar chronicles are retelling books that are super unique and they also have great characters!
we have vastly different taste (some of my favourite books of all time are in your meh category and some that I DNFed are in your all time favourites!) but I really enjoy hearing about what you love or don’t in a book! and I completely agree that Vicious by VE Schwab is one of the most excellent fantasies!
Her top tier series :
Infernal devices
Starless sea
Half a soul
Emily Wilde's encyclopedia of faeries
Strange the dreamer
Vicious
The way of kings
This is my comfort channel 🩵
Prison Healer series is one of my all time favourite YA fantasy series. I don’t read that much YA anymore but I was obsessed with that series when I read it last year
What is it about? Does it have fairies and spells or wizards and magic and all?
Ohh tier ranking every fantasy series fun. The only books I would change would be Tress of the Emerald Sea and Vampire Academy to so fun! Six Crimson Cranes would be almost, but not quite.
This was so fun to watch. I've actually read most of the books in your worst section lol and at least one of each in the other categories.
Just the fact that the last category is called "who greenlighted this?" is so funny to me, because yes, that's exactly what some books feel like 💀
I’m a new subscriber and wow… we have pretty much the exact same taste. 😳 I would have ranked these almost the exact same way. There’s a couple listed I haven’t read yet… I now trust you for book recs so I’m adding these to my TBR asap!
I feel the same way about Crescent City, it just *slightly* misses the mark for me. The first book was a solid 4.5 stars (for me) but the 2nd one barely made it into 4 star category-because of the amount of detail that went into it
Who actually thought mortal instruments was okay. That book hurt me - like what in the incest? why did it have to exist? And now I’m too scared to read any other Cassandra Clare book
As someone who LOVED Samantha Shannon’s TPOTOT, I’m telling you that the prequel is like 200 times better! I’d say it took the ‘mistakes’ of TPOTOT and learnt from them, creating a story that was incredible with such lovable and well-written characters it was hard to put the book down (for me, at least haha). So if you ever feel like reading some reaaally good 800+ pages high fantasy, A Day of Fallen Night is a fantastic choice :))
I totally agree! ADOFN was absolutely incredible and I’m already a die hard for TPOTOT
So as someone who would’ve put Priory in the integral part of my personality category I recommend A Day of Fallen Night lol but if you didn’t love Priory, I don’t know if it’ll be that different of an experience. Personal fave though.
For T.Kingfisher you should definitely read the sworn soldier series if you want horror or the sain of steel series for romance! I read both of them and finished them so quickly, they were so entertaining and they had such good storylines
I completely agree with your take on SJM. I started with ACOTAR, haven’t started CC and night possibly dnf TOG
Our reading tastes and thoughts are so similar! I saw so many people talk about A Study In Drowning with such positive reviews and I got totally suckered into the hype and it was just so meh for me.
My favourite series are Veronica Speedwell, Villains & Virtues and The War of Lost Hearts! My absolute favourites!!!
I was confused why Stardust and Night Circus were in this video. I thought it only includes fantasy series. Were these books part of a series? Were they not standalones?
Title was edited. Yey. Thank you!
Also, I am happy that the Villains duology (now a trilogy) is at the top. Although, as a VE Schwab fan, I would probably put most of her books at the top tier. 😂
literally SAME THOUGHTS, SAME EMOTIONS, SAME FRUSTRATIONS, when it comes to how Chain of Thorns brought down the Last Hours series 😩
I'm so glad the UA-cam algorithm brought me to this video! I haven't read as many fantasy books as you, but the ones you loved/enjoyed and thought were "meh" I completely agreed with! I definitely added a few to my TBR based on your rankings and can't wait to watch your other videos
ahhh i just woke up this is the best way to start my day 🥺💛
I'm generally not a big SJM fan but to put Acotar above The Name of Wind was wild
If you want to give T Kingfisher another try, read Nettle and Bone! IMO her most mature work, loved the writing and it's fun but also tackles some serious things
Finvarras Circus and Wintersong are amazing books too ✨
You have to read the fifth one! Really expands on the other characters plot lines!
i’m halfway through Gold rn (5th in the Plated Prisoner series) and i’ve been really dragging my feet with this one. it’s become the book i pick up when i’m super bored and am in between other books. i think the series could have been so good if she made it 3 books, but there are just so many places in the series where she unnecessarily dragged everything out and now she’s saying it’ll be a 7 book series and i might DNF because of that
The quality of your video is unreal!!!! Wow!
I agree with you about Crescent City.
Fourth wing???
and once upon a broken heart!
@@verylostpuppyshe did OUABH! it’s in “so fun!”.
I think it's supposed to be a 5-part series and she said she wouldn't include a series that she isn't even close to finishing
my jaw definitely dropped when I saw kings of scars ranking but its okay I understand 🥲
This was really fun! Fantasy is my favorite genre and I added a few more to my TBR from watching this 😊I enjoyed Priory okay, but I liked A Day of Fallen Night a lot more. So if you do ever decide it’s time, I think it’s worth reading the prequel!
If you havent read second book on "one dark window", please add it to TBR! Sooooo much better then first book! loved it
Just finished this newly released, original collection of fairy tales, entitled 'Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles' - it was phenomenal and just perfect for the season. You guys would love it! What's everyone else reading, I want some more recommendations to add to the lovely ones here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)
Agree so much with Emily Wilde being in top tier, I need to read Half a Soul, I have it on my kindle, maybe I'll get to it this month 😅
I wanna read the infernal devices series but do you have to read her other series first? That’s a lot 😅
No, you don't have to. You can just read the trilogy.
Love this video so much ❤ the crescent city one had me so shocked and now I’m even more nervous to read it 😅
It was really good i enjoyed it lol
my top 'an integral part of my personality' book series and standalones:
the infernal devices and the last hours by cassandra clare
the shatter me series by tahereh mafi
the once upon a broken heart trilogy by stephanie garber
the acotar series by sjm
the red queen series by victoria aveyard
the secret history by donna tartt
better than the movies by lynn painter
icebreaker by hannah grace
sorcery of thorns by margaret rogerson
the book thief by markus zusak
How can anyone hate Kvothe???
Happy Monday, love!
You should read the wizards guide to defensive baking by T. Kingfisher. It’s so good. You’d Iove it. I would put this in the top of my tier list.
really loved this video! would love to see more of them for different genres
I've yet to read Caraval, but I hated Once Upon a Broken Heart. Genuinely. Gave the first book 2 stars and the other 2 1,5 stars. Now I hear you say Caraval is worse than OUABH. It just got bumped down very significantly on my tbr lol
the 5th book in The plated prisoner is the best out of the series imo
67 is quite impressive. This was fun, though I'm not familiar with a good chunk of the YA ones. Shadow and Bone, I tried and . . . I wasn't impressed. The world was awesome, and the story made no sense. The ending in particular . . . ick. (Does it get better?) Percy Jackson I'd personally put way, way up there because as a kid, I read that series 3-4 times and it was a blast each time.
This is an official request for a baking with Katie video
the fact that the infernal devices is at the top and the mortal instruments is at the bottom kills me 💀
(both spots well deserved tho)
I honestly have the same exact opinion about name of the wind. I can’t finish it 😭
WHAT MASCARA DO YOU USE?!?!? 💖
more people need to read lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
when it comes to SJM i feel like if you read ACOTAR first you're gonna like it better than TOG and vice-versa. i read TOG first and it is still my favorite series and i had such expectations for ACOTAR but I literally couldnt finish the series, it had so much potential but it's just "meh" for me, especially after the masterpiece that is TOG🙇🏻♀️ crescent city that same as acotar, the books are unnecessarily long and nothing really made me invested i didnt even read the one just released😢
Dude if you've never watched a k-drama you need to!! They are soo funn!!!
The Name of the Wind in meh 🥲
I want to read Infernal Devices and the Cassandra Clare books but I’ve not been impressed with Mortal Instruments. Can I skip that series???
Yes you can skip it and just read the internal devices as it takes place in the 19th century. But just a heads up some characters appear in the mortal instruments if you were to finish it so they the are some ties with that series.
15:08 The Lord of the Rings
14:55 The Hobbit
I’m reading the crescent city and I feel you 😭 I’m convincing myself to like it but it’s not clicking with me
pookie (divine rivals) is looking absolutely fire tonight
it's so hard to find people who also think King of Scars is absolutely disastrous
You should try reading A Song of Ice and Fire
The series is not finished, and probably will be never be completed.
For me, from blood and ash series would be an integral part of my personality and the infernal devices would be meh😂 to me it was giving I would love it in middle school or high school. Wasn’t terrible but not a favorite
I’ve read six crimson cranes night circus cruel prince and these are fr true
Some of my TBR for the year:
- 3rd book of from blood and ash
- 2nd book of serpent and dove
- last book of kingdom of the wicked...
Katiee, why make me suffer? xd
You should read ‘the beginning after the end’ novel (not comic) and lord of the mysteries there both really good
Loved your video ❤
I personally think that the "A Shadow in the Ember" Series is way better than "blood and Ash" 🤭
this is irrelevant but your camera quality is so amazing !!
I like this new you❤
I always love the vibe of your videos but feel like you are trying to be nice and don’t give us any real criticisms but in this one you are so real and fun❤
Damn I love your takes!
Ranking six of crows this low is a crime
Nahh
Katie DNFing name of the wind…Patrick Rothfuss…same babe same
This feels embarrassing but is there a video out there explaining the book girlie world? What the acronyms mean, how you decide what is a 5 star is etc? Also just trying to find channels that read the vibes I like to read and I love all the cute girls I've been watching but I really want to find somewhere that dislikes romantic plots as much as I do 😅
I would have way too many series I have ever read, though I'm 61 so I've had time to read a lot
you are SOOOO real for crescent city. LOVED ACTOAR. Really liked ToG….but CC?? I just cannot….
An Ember is the Ashes 😬 good luck. I loved the first two books (4 ⭐ and 5 ⭐) but the last two 😬 absolute mess.
I feel the exact same way as you about the Gild series.
I love how u put From blood and ash at the bottom and that’s my absolut favorite fantasy series. But I gave The infernal devices 1 star so we’re even😂
You should leave the website of the store you buy them from. Just so some people have an easy time finding them
I liked priory but I loved day of falle night
I came here for Twilight. But tbh didn’t leave when you burned me like that. ✨🧛🏻♂️🔥
Not me having the same opinion on almost every book 😭✨
I love your videos so much but we definitely don't have the same taste. I gave the Infernal devices trilogy 2 stars as a whole so I think that sums it up
I’m currently reading the Mortal Instruments but it’s boring the hell out of me idk if I should finish it or jump to the Infernal Devices 😭 (LOVED THE VID BTW)
omg i'm on book 3 like 3 months ago and can't get myself to pick it up. i'm not even half of that book yet. i dont know why clary is so annoying specially there. but at the same time i really want to read tid.
@@booksandteas LITERALLY!!! I also cannot with the brother sister plot with Jace and Clary
Skip to the infernal devices! The TMI books were the ones that got me back into reading a couple years back but I can see they can be boring. I hope that doesn't stop you from picking up TID!!
@@marianacorreia2449 Thanks for the advice! ❤️❤️❤️
@@Jlikesbooks42 no problem 🥰 from someone that has read every shadowhunter book except a few novellas & chain of thorns, i don't think you need to read all TMI books especially if you're bored to get to the TID
You should read Berserk
After finishing HOFAS and discussions with others on socials, I seriously think that SJM and her team ended HOSAB the way they did because if they hadn't...only true CC fans would have kept reading. I enjoyed HOEAB but the rest of the series....yeah who greenlighted this.
the second i saw your placement of the house in the cerulean sea and ACOTAR i just knew we had different tastes bc THITCS book is the sole book on this list that is my entire personality 😂 and ACOTAR was full of toxic relationships and just incredibly meh
cc, kingdom of the wicked & fbaa being at the very bottom and TID at the very top
Sending you lots of love❤
u should read harry potter u would love it plz its amazing
it's kinda funny bc looking at books that you love i would BLINDLY tell that you are a throne of glass girly skldjlksadj less romance more high fantasy idk jsdkjskdl it's shocking🤣
i actually will never understand why people started hating on mortal instruments asdjsakdjk it's still my fav series from the author (okay inc🙅st plot is awful but i guess i just forget about it XD i spoiled myself before reading) 🤣🤣there was a time in book community when it was as well loved as acotar and shatter me 😂
for fun:
my top tier: acotar, throne of glass, fourth wing, shatter me, heaven official's blessing, bone season, The Inheritance Cycle
i really don't like: The Priory of the Orange Tree, The Night Circus
okay but king of scars?! you made it so dirty
❤❤❤ I hope you have a lovely year (:
why is there a ton of stand alones and short stories