Top 5 Wednesday is GoodReads group where people discuss different bookish topic each week.
Whether you’re a fan of short or long series (or both!), most readers prefer to dive into a series. However, where does one even start with how many book series there are?! To “help a friend out,” what are some first in book series you would recommend to friends?
I read a lot of series so it would have been easier to give the first book in a series in every genre I read. 🙂 But here are some of my favorite long series:
The first in a humorous historical mystery series. Set in Victorian times, Amelia Peabody is a smart and independent woman who loaths the restrictions of her culture. Fortunately, she has enough money that she can travel to Egypt. She loves the ancient Egypt, but as a woman she can’t train as an Egyptologist. Fortunately she and her friend Evelyn find a couple of handsome Egyptologists who really need help. Also Amelia and Evelyn must solve the mystery of the mummy.
The Vorkosigan series is very long and it can be hard to know which book to start with. I prefer Cordelia’s Honor. It’s a omnibus of the first two books in the series, in the internal chronological order. The series is character focused science fiction.
Another science fiction series that also has terrific characters. The main character, known only as Boss, is a loner who loves to ”dive” ancient spaceships. They’re so old that humanity has forgotten the technology and she loves to unravel their mysteries.
Another long series, this time urban fantasy with fae. October “Toby” Daye is a half-human, half-faerie woman; her father was a human and her mother is a Daoine Sidhe. She lives with her fiance and young daughter in San Francisco. In the mortal world, she’s a private investigator and in the faerie world, she’s a Knight in her own right which is almost unheard of for a half-blood. Then her liege lord’s wife and daughter are kidnapped and Toby is given the task to find them. She follows a suspect but unfortunately, he knows about her and changes her into a fish. For fourteen years. When she finally gets back to her human form, the world around her has changed. While she starts as a loner, she gathers a family of good friends around her.
Detective inspector Chen works in Singapore Three which is one of the franchise cities in China. The city is huge and bustling and has also quite a lot of supernatural activity: ghosts, demons, manifestations of goddesses, exorcisms. Chen is the police officer in charge of investigating the supernatural. Unfortunately, most of his fellow officers don’t believe in the supernatural and so Chen is shunned by them and even his superior officer doesn’t really trust him.