I feel like a lot of dystopian series could be better if they weren’t peer pressured into trilogies

There's a sequel to The Giver? _There's three sequels to The Giver?_ Huh. I thought it was one-off.

Oh boy, Divergent had one of the blandest protagonists, most cliche love stories and most idiotic political systems I have ever read...

Catching Fire is my favourite in the series and the movie version is one of the best adaptations of a book I have seen. It's so close to the book that it's like I'm reading it again every time I watch it.

"what ever section she was in.. the mean ones ...the brave ones, the Gryffindors"

Mockingjay has always been my favourite and I feel very lonely 😂

I’m definitely in the minority here, but I loved Mockingjay. I felt like the contrast of the slow beginning and then the rushed middle/ending really added to the story. Peeta was one of my favorite characters and though I didn’t enjoy what he went through in the third book, I’m glad it wasn’t just a thing that happened and actually had an affect and played a role in how things progressed. I haven’t read the books in like 5 years, so perhaps after a reread I may feel differently, but I honestly remember really loving Mockingjay. 100% agree about Divergent though. I loved the first book so much and was disappointed with the direction the 2nd and 3rd book took. I didn’t even read the companion novel.

*enthusiastic voice* "TALK ABOUT DISAPPOINTMENT"😂

Lovely video! Here are the timestamps for the series mentioned. Divergent - 0:50 Hunger Games - 2:15 Raven Cycle - 3:17 The Giver - 4:42 Selection - 6:11 Vicious - 6:55 Name of the Wind - 7:45 Let me know if I got something wrong.

"Katniss, have you heard of character development?... Me neither, but you are a fictional character so you are supposed to have some." I am choking on my saliva...hilarious AF

I've read that the reason why some series fail is because the setup in the second book is so different from the first one that readers feel "disconnected" from the story, and honestly, I agree. I loved Maze Runner but Scorch Trials was so different, that I got bored halfway through and I had to force myself to read the third book. It just wasn't the story I fell in love with.

I actually loved all the reven cycle books but probably because I wasn't all that focused on the story and read it for characters :D

I fall into the LOVE IT section for The Dream Thieves, and I actually thought The Raven King was really good! I understand why people didn’t like it, but I thought it was good and wrapped up well. (But I’m also not a critical reader AT ALL so that probably has something to do with it)

Nahh Divergent was always wack. It makes no sense from a world building perspective.

To All the boys I've loved before was not that good of a book according to me but it was fine, kinda liked it but the next two books omg what the heck even were the sequels, I hated both of them and I hated myself for still reading it. Tbh I don't even properly remember what happened in book 2 and 3, I just remember hating it.

I highly disagree with Wise Man's Fear. I really enjoyed it. I thought that it delved more into Kvothe's character and helped build up for the next book. However, I do agree that I would have to read book 3 before in order to get a better view of the book.

I loved Catching Fire more than Hunger Games too! I liked seeing more of what was going on in the characters' awful lives Hahaha book 2: "A sticky mess"

I love to follow so many booktubers and see so many different opinions on the same book. For example, Merphy hated Vengeful, by V. E. Schwab, but other booktuber I love loooved Vengeful and said it was 17648x better than Vicious. To see so many different opinions, points of view and the (civil) discussions that can come from reading and being in the community is what makes it so fun. :)

I agree about the Hunger Games 100%. Book1, great, Book2 WOAH

I knew it was coming but it breaks my heart a little every time you say you didn't like The Wise Man's Fear :D

Love your thumbnail :D Also i love you even more for giving Ivymuse some love

Wheel of Time 1-7 - yes, so good, cant wait for more Wheel of Time 8-10 - please end, make it stop make it stooooop! Wheel of Time 11-14 - thank you Brandon!

I feel like it's a common theme for YA to have weak sequels. Most authors just can't do series but reaaally want to make money P.S. Can we talk about how beautiful Merphy's eyes are???

I completely agree with the Divergent series and the Selection (btw your description of those books was spot on) From the Hunger Games my favorite is Catching Fire too! And yeah Mockingjay was another mood entirety (but I still love the series). OMG the Raven Boys' ending is sooo underwhelming, personally I'd recommend not to read the last one. I recently read The name of the wind and loved it, but now I'm scared to pick up The wise man's fear... Great video as always!!

Awww I thought “A Wise Man’s Fear” was a pretty good book. Oh well

I actually love your suggestion/idea for Divergent! I would totally love the series if it followed that kind of plot progression. :c

I am going to be reading Divergent soonish! Love your videos! Awesome job!!

I'm really looking forward to the third Kingkiller installment just to know how in the name of God he is gonna try to end that story, I think it's impossible...

Completely agree with wiseman's fear! I feel like he wrote himself into a corner like you said. Other sequels I didn't like were Scarlet (lunar Chronicles) and the dire King (Jackaby series, just a bit of the ending and a couple of unanswered questions)

I listened to the audiobook of Catching Fire and I feel like all I remember from that book was the line "All that mattered was keeping Peeta alive." Every. Other. Line. That was the only thing going through Katniss's head through the last half of the book and it drove me nuts through the entire road trip

I'm currently reading insurgent, mainly because it's been on my TBR for years. I read Divergent just after the film came out and books 2 and 3 have been sitting on my shelf ever since. Knowing how the series ends (I goggled it) and having seen the films they released so far, I have a feeling I'll unhaul both after finishing them, but I just want them read and get them off my shelves. I also read (and loved) all three hunger games books last year, but I agree with you about Katniss' character. I kept wanting to tell her off for not working out well signposted things and not trusting people.

I love Mockingjay, but I read it a lot time ago, I should read it again to see if it was as good as I thought ,or was just the hype

Personally for me, I had mixed feelings about the wise mans fear also. I didn’t like the first half of the book and honestly can’t remember much besides the stuff kvothe did to ambrose. Besides one part(the felurian) I LOVED the second half of the book. The fight, THE FIGHT, the adem people and their culture, the spinning leaf, denna, and a lot more at the end truly kept me entertained. I also got a lot more excited when I started looking up the lackless theory and more on KZfaq after the fact. Still very excited for book 3.

Glad you started with Divergant. My grandmother loves reading, I couldn't find anything for Christmas for her, saw this on the shelf, read a blurb, saw sequels were coming out and got it for her. Low and behold she loved it, asked me to read it, I loved it. Then I saw noting but horrible reviews for the next two. I feel like I might have liked the second one but I know I would've hated the third. My grandmother passed before having the last book I bought her ruined by sequels. Only good thing about her passing is she doesn't have to endure the two Divergent sequels.

The name of the wind has more books, its only a beginning. After the 3 nights(books) he is going to continue with more books. He said he hopes people arent mad when they find out these books are just a prologue to another series lol love these books.

I just finished the dream thieves and since ronan was my fave in the first book i loved this one so much 😅

Really love this video idea! This was a great video! :)

The Witchland series by Susan Dunnard: Took me a minute to understand the magic system, but I loved the first book, TruthWitch, and could hardly wait for WindWitch to be delivered to my door. Popped it open immediately and started reading aloud, using character voices and such, as I do for fun when reading to my husband. Something happened within the first few pages and I was praying for change clear through the next 100 pages. It never was repaired and the characters had changed. I shut the book and have never looked back. Maybe someone can talk me into enjoying the series again. I dunno.

The Giver is probably my favorite book of all time. It is the only book that I even like to reread. I haven't read the companion novels because I really like the ambiguous ending.

When you started talking about Raven Cycle I like squeaked and was like no!!

Also. The faction is called Dauntless.

I actually made an edit of the two Mockingjay movies into one movie and cut out a lot of the boring parts and of course the Gale romance. It works a lot better because to me it was clear at the end of Catching Fire that she had chosen Peeta. So it gives more impact to her desire to save Peeta that much.

I've always been hesitant to read A Wise Man's Fear. Maybe I'll snag it on audio if i get bored and listen while i'm doing other things. Thanks for the video!

"Kinda like a bag of chips. You keep eating them but they're not really good for you" - relatable haha

Sooooo I realised more recently that I've owned the box set of the hunger games (for like 5-6 YEARS), and all this time I just thought I'd read them... Nope. Read the first one. Never even opened the other two 😂😂😂. Need to fix that at some point lol. Also, when I read the divergent trilogy way back when, I remember loving it (post partum me seemed to be a lot less picky about books lol). I did hate how it was all ended though (I mean, I cried 😂 but I haaaaated that ENDING). I never read four's book. But I don't think I'd ever reread them because I don't think I could let the little things slide the second time around lol. AND THE MOVIES WERE SO HORRIBLE.

“Some if the side quests were good, some of them were horrible”. Looking at you Felurian. Waste of ink.

I was SO excited for Vengeful. Vicious is one of my favourite books and I still pour my heart out when suggesting it to people. That said, I've sat on Vengeful for ages. One of the new characters' POVs put me off and I lost enthusiasm to read it. I got it out the other day to try to convince myself to read it, but now my sister has convinced me to start a book club with her and we're reading Empire of Sand so... unlikely.

I read The Giver when I was about 9 or 10 and I adored it. I didn't even know there were sequels! It was one of those books I just found in my house because my parents owned it or whatever. Now I really want to re-read

I absolutely love Wise Mans Fear. The book contains so many secrets and intrigues within its language. But where i do agree is that it really seems odd how Rothfuss can wrap up the story in only one final book. It seems to work so little that we might never get a book 3.

I love every book in the raven cycle especially the dream thieves. Although I love the series, I don't think you will like the raven king.

The sequels to the 5th wave, infinite sea and the last star, were pretty meh especially compared to the first

Okay u just want to mention this, but I adore the selection so much. Like I love it with all my heart (back in 8th grade...) and when you mentioned it I was like « YES! » because even 8th grade me thought that the elite was just..two stars. I found a lot of America’s actions unnecessary and I remember rereadig the selection and the one while skipping the elite, just because I really did not like it and didn’t care that I’ve forgotten important plot points that happened in it. The story about her daughter was a miss for me too

Totally agree with Mockingjay! After two AMAZING books, this one really was a disappointment. I do think a reason for this was also because the whole 'Hunger Games' element wasn't there anymore, but still. I did find it really interesting reading about the PTSD of the tributes, but overall, book 1 and 2 were WAAAAY better. Loved this video!

Completely agree about THE HUNGER GAMES! The premise of the Hunger Games themselves is interesting and all the best scenes are inside the arena itself, but once the focus shifts to the rebellion of the Districts, you stop caring. Mostly because the Districts are boring as hell. MOCKINGJAY stopped being about the arena, and that was a huge mistake.

I remember my mind was blown when I found out the Giver was a series

Anthony Ryan - Tower Lord from the Raven's Shadow series.... horrible squeal

I agree with every single one of these. Some stories start with such a great premise and then they just crumble. I didn't hate Vengeful as much, but I see how you felt that way. Mockingjay was just a disaster...

I literally just finished The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1). I am soo pumped for this book. I liked the premise and loved the way it was written. Now I am afraid to read the second one

I loved Mockingjay haha

I feel like everyone’s favourite is catching fire,but I just love the first one. Don’t get me wrong catching fire is amazing but there’s something about the first

I am a very firm believer that the giver shouldve been a stand alone and i will forever treat it as such

The amount of backhanded burns are amazing in this video.

I actually really love Mockingjay😅 I thought the series got better with each book....oop🤠

I was holding my breath for Merphy’s verdict on Catching Fire, I am so glad that she loves it too😅

Definitely agree with most of these. I hated Mockingjay soooo much. Didn't even finish the 3rd Raven Cycle book because it got too weird and complicated for me, and I didn't even try to read the 3rd Divergent book. I will also throw in the most recent Shatter Me book (#4). I loved the first three so I was SO excited for it, but I could not even believe what I was reading it was so disappointing compared to what I was expecting. It's such a shame when they take the story places it just doesn't need to go.

I loved Dream Thieves because Ronan was my favorite character and it was great seeing more in depth on his family life. But as a second book in a series, it made no sense to halt everything and focus on him.

Absently watching this as I get ready to go to work in a book store. Never knew the giver had sequels

Just some comments from a fan of The Wise Man's Fear (SPOILS): I'm only going to address "no progress has been made." I do get what you mean - at times thinking about the book I feel that no progress has been made, but on the other hand, one has to actual lay out what progress needs to be done. In the 'prophetic blurb' of book 1, we complete the following: "I have spent the night with Felurian and left with my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the university..." This is about 1/3 of the summary, only 1/3 of which was clearly completed book 1. We learn from snippets in book 1 that Kvothe is excellent with a sword, and learn how this is so in 2. We also have hints he learns the Lithuani in 1, completes in 2. The major mysteries in book 1 include: The four plate door, naming, the other countries (Modeg, Vintas, Ceald, Yll), the fae realm, The Adem, The Amyr and The Ciridae, Waystones, Auri, Denna's patron, and of course, the Chandrian. Of these, almost every one is further understood by the end of book 2, expect perhaps some countries and the four plate door. Obviously, very few of these are 'resolved,' but Vintas, the Adem, and the Amyr are especially given a ton of new light. Auri is much better understood. A bunch about the Chandrian is revealed through the pottery imagery, especially in connection with the myths of the Amyr laid throughout. Naming is 'explained' and used much more deeply. I know it feels like there is a ton left to do, but in many ways, Rothfuss did explore a ton of ground in just book 2, and most, if not all of Kvothe's known skills are now in place.

LOL you came out swinging against Divergent

I thought the one we all new was coming was going to be the cursed child

Where did you get those copies of the Giver series?? They're gorgeous and I love them

The bag of chips metaphor is the best thing I have ever heard

While I don't agree with your review of The Wise Man's Fear, I do agree the Felurian sextion (I actually just mistyped "section" but it seems oddly appropriate so I am leaving it there) is the weakest part of the book. It felt forced, like Rothfuss needed a way for Kvothe to meet up with the Cthaeh and he couldn't think of any other means to do it. I also fear (wisely or not) that Rothfuss has no intention of writing book three. He just can't come out and admit it as that would kill the sales of the first two going forward.

Mockingjay is a guilty pleasure. I know it has a lot of problems but I love Katniss' descent into madness, which I feel should have had more development

The longer a story goes on, the slower the plot crawls, so publishers can set up a revenue stream to milk.

Oh man. I knew the Selection series had to be in there. I read the first book and surprised myself by how much I loved it. In fact, I had just finished it, was in Barnes and Noble and saw they had a good deal for the series---I almost bought it without reading the second or third book. So glad I didn't...Books 2 and 3 were flaming hot messes 😂 I was basically hate-reading by the end of it.

Noo, I just started to re-read The Name of the wind because I never read the other ones and now I'm kind of bummed out... but who knows, I might like book 2, I also love The Dream Thieves (so so much), and I think our taste in books might actually differ a lot. But I like how you state you opinions so I still enjoy your videos a lot! Also, I 100% agree with you on the Hunger Games series.

As a kid I didn't know books could HAVE bad sequels until I started to read the Maximum Ride series and BOY that series took a sharp turn for the worst and just steamrolled ahead.

i love Theresa's channel! completely agree about Mockingjay 😖 The Giver is on my tbr, i'm sorry to hear the rest of the series isn't that great!

With mockingjay the deaths were so sudden I didn't even realise they happened like I didn't realise what happened to prim until it was brought up again like pages later. Didn't even notice or get why she was mad at the love interest that wasn't petah. Till years later when someone explained it in a video.

Agree about the wise man's fear, I expected more about the magic construction and I didn't see the "kingkiller" yet

About 6 months after I finished The Giver series, I became convinced that I must not have finished it because I was remembering all these questions that didn't get answered. I read the ebook of Son, and my Kindle informed me that I had actually completed it. Total bummer.

As soon as I saw that title I knew Wise Man’s Fear was coming lmao

I still don't know what to make of the raven cycle... I read all of them because a friend loved them and recommended them warmly and I love several of the concepts and ideas that are in the books but after reading all 4 I still wasn't sure what the plot even was? Idk How to explain it, the whole plot just didn't seem to go anywhere, really.

Shadowdance by David Dalglish had me HOOKED until I got about a quarter of the way through book 3, out of 6. There was just something about the way the author described how the protagonist fought, like his signature technique that helped him win in a fight against the bruiser bad guy in the last book, that just lost me. I forget how he put it, but it immediately made me picture our hero loosening the clasp on his cloak so it can spin around his neck and then he starts spinning in place like a toddler pretending to be a helicopter. Once that mental image popped in my head, I *immediately* stopped reading and put the thing down, never to be read again. Which makes me really sad, because he was building up such amazing relationships and conflict for the protagonist and his father, only to blow it on a poorly written fight sequence.

The Giver is my favorite book of all time. I always feel like I'm cheating by saying a children's book is my favorite, but I just love it! And I *LOVE* those editions. Where did you get them?

I'm soooo glad you said you didn't like Vengeful i thought i was the only one

Maybe because the children of flesh and bone sequel wasn't out yet, but that sequel... It hurt my very soul that something so BEAUTIFUL ended up so terrible.

People call Divergent 'Detergent', but they don't know just how much the sequels needed some

Glad you brought up vengeful as I felt similarly but I've seen such positive views on it so totally felt left out. I'm half way through wise man's fear and I'm struggling through it. Finally got out of the university and got more interested except the teenage angst. With how you felt would you read the novella?

I LOVED The Hunger Games a few years ago. I mean I was OBSESSED. Yet I only read half of Mockingjay before dnfing it 😂

isn't there two more books to the selection-series about their daughter holding another casting?

Is "Call down the hawk" a book you'd be interested in reviewing?

Mockingjay really shook me when I read it as a teen. It was a departure in tone and even genre. It felt much less YA. It was dark and pessimistic and painful, and showed Katness not as a perfect hero but as a flawed kid who'd been through too much. It really threw me, and it was a departure, but I think that's a good thing.

I loved the entire giver series. I think that the last book was amazing but I didn’t like how it never went back to the city that Jonas left in the first book and it barely showed what happened afterwards but the rest of the book was great.

I remember really liking the first Darkest Minds book by Alexandra Bracken however I didn’t like the second one nearly as much. A lot of it confused me (especially at the end) and in my opinion, the only chapters that I really liked were the ones with Liam in.

Rothfuss isn’t claiming that the first three books are going to be a prequel series. He has to finish the first trilogy before he can move on to the next one.

The Maximum Ride series has this. I loved books 1-3, book 4 was basically a PSA about global warming, book 5 wasn't memorable(I forgot everything, haha), and I quit partway through book 6 because I was just done with this series.

You summed up the Divergent series for me - personally, loved the first movie, strongly disliked the second and didn't even bother to watch the third... The worst part is that I told my mom how amazing book 1 was and she actually bought me the set and I haven't read them because... Well, I'd probably sell them, too, if they weren't a gift!!! (>.

I just did a series review of the Kricket trilogy by Amy A. Bartol, and I loved books 1 and 2 (2 was my favorite), but then book 3 ruined everything. I hate when the final book in a series sucks. At least if the beginning or middle isn't good, the end can make up for that, but when the last book sucks there's no redeeming to be done.