Y'all keep mentioning Mistborn but Mistborn was good the entire time lol so it wouldn't count for this, for me. Plus the first book is my favorite. This topic is for series that start at meh or bad and get better... :)

I would say the Raven Cycle gets better and better, even though the finale might not be the best one in the series, I think it really grows as it goes on. I would also say the same about the Percy Jackson series, the last book really delivered on the action and build up of the other four.

Protector of the small quartet. Part of it is the author grows as an author through the series, part because she gets to have more space to write during the series, part is the series grows during the series. I love that series sooooooo much.

I didn't LOVE Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Book 1) the first time I read it. It took me a few months to pick up the rest of the series, and when I did I flew through it. To this day, Dreams of Gods and Monsters is probably my favorite finale of all time. It blew me away. I recently re-read the whole series and knowing the story in context it made me fall SO deeply in love with book 1 (and the series as a whole). I couldn't stop crying. Re-reading DOSAB and reading Strange the Dreamer has solidified Laini Taylor as one of my most cherished and adored writers. Your comments on The Magicians makes me want to give it another go. I couldn't get thorough the first one.

Totally agree with you about The Magicians. I liked the first book, but felt confused more often than not. But that second and third, just wow! Top 5 series for me now for sure :)

The Girl of Fire & Thorns series is so so amazing! I'm so happy more people are talking about it!

the only series that i've fully read and can wholeheartedly say that it gets better is the gallagher girls series - the first book is meh, but if you push through that one, the reast just keep getting better and better. it's a very important series for me, it's very "girls supporting girls" centered and it's taught me a lot. i still believe that it's enjoyable to anyone, and that it's not just middlegrade!

Thank you for this video! I'm just finishing The Girl of Fir and Thorns, and while it's not bad, I'm not totally in love with it, but thanks to your recommendation I'm now looking forward to read the next two books 😊

The Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews gets sooo much better as it goes on. Book nine, Magic Binds, absolutely destroyed me. It was devastating. (It was also FABULOUS!) Book one, though, Magic Bites. . .when I first read it, I was not that impressed (still gave it four stars, but it was definitely not the greatest of first books). Nowadays, though, rereading book one? It too is fabulous. This is definitely a book that is much (MUCH!) better when you reread it after you've read a few more books into the series. Book ten is expected to be the final Kate Daniels book. I am nervous about it, but Ilona Andrews has never let me down, so I'm hopeful that book ten will wrap things up very nicely. (Book nine, when I first read it I wondered if "the battle" would be in the next book, but Ilona Andrews somehow worked it in there and it was wonderful.) I'm pretty sure that I have other series I could recommend that are great, or get greater, through to the end (or most recent release), but . . . Kate Daniels. I really love it. 😊❤

YES to the Magicians--I had the same reaction to the first book, but I'm so glad I finished the series, albeit after waiting two years between book one and 2 &3.

Air Awakens series - Elise Kova The covenant series - Jennifer L Armentrout Daughter of Smoke & Bone Series - Laini Taylor The Remnant Chronicles Series - Mary E Pearson

Oh this would be so hard for me too. I will check out your picks!

Stormlight Archives for sure, even though there's only 2 books out. The 2nd one is just so much better than the 1st. I cannot wait for Oathbringer!

Gone and Daughter of Smoke and Bone are both series that get better as they go on, but one that surprised me was the House of Night series, because it's consistently good, even though it's basically the book equivalent of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

I'm glad to hear your thoughts on Falling Kingdom because I read the first two, which were fine, meh, and I wasn't sure if I would keep going, but now I will lol.

A series that gets better with every book (not completely, but the finaly is amazing and the build up and ending are incredibly well crafted in my opinion and they absolutely doen't get worse by the book or after the second one) is the Balad of Sir Benfro. One of our main characters is a dragon. The first book is definitely slow because of huge world, character and plot building parts and explaining the current situation for all our POV's. There are ten or more throughout the 5 book series. My god that ending was satisfying and heart-breaking and lovely and a little bit of a tear-jerker and soo feel good. JUSTICE!!! It has a lot of war scheming, plotting, intrigue and a split world (which is important enough to warrant the title of book four: The Broken World). That one is such a recommendation. I really need to reread it soon, feel all the love for it again

I didn't enjoy the first book of the magicians, I loved the second and now I'm halfway through the third and I can't stop reading. I always love your recommendations :)

'the First Law-Trilogy' by Joe Abercrombie the first one set the tone, the second upped the ante and when the third one comes around you feverishly turn the pages and pray your favourite character is still alive. 'The Fey and the Fallen' duology (Of Blood and Honey and 'Blue Sky from Pain) by Stina Leicht. The second one blows the ,already amazing, first one straight out of the water. 'The Eternal Sky Trilogy' by Elizabeth Bear. Not only is the setting non-western but every volume just gets better. 'The Lightbringer series' by Brent Weeks granted the finale is not out, yet but every book before doubled the stakes and the twists are almost impossible to figure out. I can't wait for the last one to arrive. 'The Ancillary Series' by Anne Leckie. This series is hard to describe but the final book was so great it gave me the worst book hangover of my life.

The Summer I Turned Pretty gets better with each book!

The Morganville Vampires, YA and I am loving this series.

I just joined Top 5 Wednesday, can't wait for next weeks topic 😊 :)

The Lunar Chronicles was like that for me. I did like Cinder but I wasn't fangirling or anything. Also took forever finishing it and it's not a big book by any means. And then Scarlet just hit me out of nowhere and I was hooked.

I love the magicians! It's so underrated here on booktube!

The raven cycle! I wasn't hooked with the first one, the second was better, the third and fourth were amazing!

It's often this way that I prefer the sequel than the first book in the series.

It's so funny that you liked the rest of the magician books because the first magicians was five stars for me but I couldn't even get through the second one.

I'm reading the Shatter Me series right now and when I started book one, everyone kept telling me to make sure I at least read to book two. They were like, "don't judge the series by book one."

The Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta. The first books is good but the second and third pick up with the secondary character from book one and just explode. I love it so much. Daughter of Smoke and Bone is of course forever on most lists for me. The Discworld books =) The start out ok but grow so so much better with time and each new book.

100% agree on Shatter Me!

I've had the 3rd Magicians book for about a month now and I'm going to start it today. I do agree that the second Magicians book was better than the first. For series I think getting better over time, I agree that it's hard to think of examples. I think Discworld might fit the bill. There are so many books, so it isn't a perfect climb up in quality, but overall I think the series got better over time.

So agree with Shatter Me , is good but not great , but from there is just amazing and can not wait to see the show. For me Daughter of Smoke and Bones is the same , it was good but the next books are just amazing

I love you so much and I love all your videos

Jim Butcher'sThe Dresden Files is one of my favorites! I think of it as a grown up Harry Potter in the US. The stakes are high, the sass it on point, and our hero gets his ass handed to him on the regular. In think there's 14 books on the series and each one has gotten better. Kim Harrison's The Hallows set where the magical community is present because humans were dying from GMO tomatoes and they helped humanity survive. It follows a witch, vampire, and a pixy in their lives and adventures. The series is completed and we'll worth the read.

The Undeniable Series..... all books tie in together.... currently waiting on book 6

Great recs, maybe I'll finish a few of these series now... a Series of Unfortunate Events got better as it went too

Mistborn! MISTBORN!

The Conspiracy of Us trilogy is so worth it. In no way is the first book bad but they get exponentially better. The first on is a little bit fluffy and cheesy at times but by the third one I felt like I was reading the best kind of love story/action movie combo ever.

The Dublin Murder Squad books by Tana French, and that's not even my normal genre. I love her characters and writing. The first one was decent but the rest are amazing.

I think The Lunar Chronicles fits into this category for me. Maybe The Dresden Files too.

GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNSSSS

Captive Prince! It should be read as one big book and you actually get to see how much the author improves. The second and the third books feel nothing like the first one...

I just posted my video for this topic, I agree that this was a really difficult list to come up with! :)

I haven't watched the full video yet and saw Mistborn on your shelf and I died a little because that's my first choice in this topic.

This was a super hard topic! I did give up on The Magicians midway through the first book, maybe I will have to give them a try again. A series I thought got better was Paths to Camelot by Sarah Zettel. I also want to say An Ember in the Ashes series but with 2 books still to come . . . Well we will have to see.

Mistborn trilogy , Captive Prince trilogy (MUST BE READ TOGETHER), Stormlight Archive books (idk if it counts since only 2 books are out but book 1 was so good. And book 2 Words of Radiance was insane, and even better).

I definitely would put the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini in this category!

The Chaos Walking trilogy gets better with every book. I understand why a lot of people stop after the first book, but I personally loved all three and how the writing matched the main characters reading and writing skills and how they improved as the story went on. Another series that I thought got better as it went on is The Lunar Chronicles. I didn't love Cinder but I loved the rest of the series and I loved the characters that were added in each book.

I read Shatter Me and didn't really like it but now I feel like I should read it

I"m currently reading and loving The Unwind series, and i'm probably being biased because I love me some Neal Shusterman.

"These books are like cotton candy." Fantastic metaphor, lady!

I feel like so often the first book in the series is the best one so this is a super hard question to answer haha

i think the infernal devices is a trilogy that gets better because it gets you so invested, with all and the tropes there are. But shatter me is the best trilogy ever.

i cant wait for Shatter Me TV, im also kinda eh about the continuation of the series... im scared it will ruin it for me if i dont like it

The magicians TV show was so bad! I never even considered reading the books😂😂

Do duologies count as series? Because I would say the Six of Crows duology was straight up great from start to finish. I'm actually starting to really get into the duology format because they tend to avoid some of the very common pacing issues and "filler" chapters/storylines that often crop up in trilogies/quintets/longer book series.

Ive heard so many things of falling kingdoms, all good. I really need to check it out

I had only one choice for this, that's why I couldn't make the video 😂 It was also Falling Kingdoms for me.

I think the books in the His Dark Materials trilogy got better as they went along, but I read them back to back in an omnibus so I'm not super clear on what happened in which book. I just know it had a VERY slow start and the got better and better as the story progressed. I would also say Percy Jackson fits the bill for this, although the fourth book is probably my favourite and not the fifth one, I do really like the fifth one as a conclusion, and the first book is definitely the weakest in my opinion. I also love that the books are mostly set a year apart from each other so you can really see the characters grow.

The infernal devices

Whilst watching I was considering the series that get better that I've read, and I have to say I've come up short as well! The Lunar Chronicles is one of my favourite series, but Winter just didn't pack a big enough punch. I think I'd probably classify The Hunger Games as improving with each book - I know Mockingjay isn't for everyone, but I think it was a perfect end to the trilogy! X

I thought about doing this topic, but I just struggled with finding series that fit. I typically either feel like there's a lull in the middle of the series, or like the series gradually takes a slight plunge. Plus I try not to even start series that I'm pretty sure I won't like right away. I feel like this is a cheat because there are only two books out so far, but the Stormlight Archive is a great example. Also maybe the original Sword of Shannara trilogy (though I didn't like book through quite as much as book 2)?

Crystal Storms was my favorite! Sucks that you didn't love it as much. And I'm also meh on the continuation of the Shatter Me series. I loved how Ignite Me ended and I don't think a continuation is needed. Also, I didn't know there was a tv show coming - I don't know how I feel about that. Usually they ruin the stories.

I would say the Lumatere Chronicles was for me. They were all great but I gave the first one 4 stars, then the second 4.5 and the last one a glowing 5! I'm sad you didn't love the first one but I guess I'll forgive you. I think Adriana would agree with me though.

Right now, the only series I can think of that would fit is The Young Elites by Marie Lu. I thought the first book was just alright. The second book was fantastic, and the third book was an extremely solid, great finale.

I own the first book in The Magicians series but have yet to read it BECAUSE I'm waiting until I can grab the last two so I can marathon it. I enjoy the show, at least. 😏

I had picked up the first book in The Magicians series, and put it down after a hundred or so pages ...... after this video think I will give it another try lol

I DnF'd The Magician's Trilogy!

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Thanks for this video, I'm going to give it a try and read the next books of the Girl of Fire and Thorns series- I was one of the people who wasn't that impressed after reading the first one and I kind of quit.. I mean it had potential but it was kind of wasted in my opinion? The main character dealt with dangerous situations waay to easily like it was nothing- killing a supposedly lethal animagi in his tent after being captured, surrounded by enemies, and escaping without anyone noticing and basically without getting hurt.. what? Really? Also, the death of her love interest- lol I forgot his name, the young boy who saved her several times- was done badly in my opinion. Not that it was a bad thing overall, but he died in ridiculous circumstances- at least I felt like it. And omg, the final scene- she "prayed" and her magic unleashed itself and just saved the day, killing the enemies. Again, too easy. I want something more spectacular. I want to see more effort. Please tell me such things are fixed in the next books (and sorry for this long comment) :D

Omg you didn't mention Mistborn?? That is the epitome of #worth in my opinion! And the BEST finale!!

This is a really hard topic. Like there's a few that get So Good, but they started good? Like, Mistborn, and Inheritance Cycle, and All For The Game, and The Raven Cycle, and the Stormlight Archive (There's TEN books, and only two have been released!?). Maybe, Captive Prince, or the Six of Crows duology, or even maybe the Twilight Saga, maybe maybe even Vampire Academy?

The majority of the books I own are part of a series which, makes it so hard to pick what to read next.

i really need to read The Girl of Fire and Thorns. i heard the protag is fat, true or false? i 100% agree with Shatter Me! the only other series i can think of is The Infernal Devices. maybe The Mortal Instruments as well. i know i commented on your lipstick in your last video but apparently i was too busy staring at your lips (creeper?) to notice your eyes! i'm just really digging your facial aesthetic is all i'm saying.

I second the Magicians trilogy. My other choices would be Twilight, Harry Potter, the original Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (Interview through Memnoch) and the Lord of the Rings

I will always say The Red Rising Trilogy hands down

I feel the opposite for Falling Kingdoms. I think Book one was great. Book two was even better. Then they were just okay. I haven't read book five yet though. I plan on reading Girl of Fire and Thorns one day.

Game of Thrones is defintely like that for me. :)

If i dislike the first book I rarely move on to the next but series where the first book is not on the same level as the rest of the series are Prince of Fools, Skulduggery Pleasant, Six of Crows, Captive Prince and A Darker shade of Magic, I loved all of them around 4-5 stars but just not as good as the latter books.

How have I never heard about the tv show or continuation with the series?!? Omg can someone link me an article or something I'm freaking out

The Remnant Chronicles

The Lotus war trilogy by Jay Kristoff, omg, is my favorite series but the first book is so meh, not the best, but OMG, the second is better and the THIRD😰. You need that series in your live.

Sam have you seen the cover release for the final falling kingdoms series

I've begin Falling Kingdoms but -spoilers- i've found hard to look past in love with his sister eventhoug not his sister thing, it's strange because i have read a song of ice and fire and there is something similiar but i couldn't do with these characters -spoilers- I don't know should i countinue?

Geez I bought the first magicians book and did not know it was a trilogy🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ can you believe ?

Definetly the Lorien Legacies series. The first book is by far the worst, and honestly kind of dry. But after the second it's amazing. I see a lot of people read the first one and then quit (which I would've too if I hadn't been on vacation with only the first 2 books in the series) because they didn't like, but they take such a turn in book two it starts to feel like a different series to the first book entirely.

I haven't read the last one yet, but ACOTAR??

the infernal devices. i disliked the first book but man that finale

honestly if I don't think the second book is better than the first book I don't actually like the series that much

Someone please tell me why I should keep reading Girl of Fire and Thorns, I seriously did not like the first book, and thats pretty rare for me. The whole concept about weight just seemed excessive and took up too much of the conversation.

i was about to say the grisha trilogy for this but the end of ruin & rising was bleh :(

I didn't like the finale of shatter me. I felt like everything was solved in under 20 pages.

I thought mistborn would be on this list.

When the video has 2 views and 6 likes xD

That's so odd because I feel like the second books (usually in trilogies) are reaaaaaaallllyyyyy bad. They always drag and feel like filler in books

Your hair looks a bit more purple-y. Is that just me?

I see people talking about Mistborn, but am I the only one who thought the books actually got worse (and more predictable) as the went on? Now, I haven't read the Alloy Era books yet, so I cant talk about those, but the fisrt trilogy... Yeah, not a fan of where that went.