Bookish Musings - A Commitment to Series

Bookish Musings is a feature here at Beautiful Bookish Butterflies that allows one of us to share our thoughts and opinions, talk and discuss things happening in the book and blogging community or share a personal book related issue we have. Today, Amanda is extending her earlier conversation about her relationship with series and failing to continue them, as well as taking it a step further by making a commitment..

A few weeks ago, we had a little chat about my series relationship and I think we all came to an agreement that we're all not very good at making commitments to series. We start them and leave them, or we never even start them, and sometimes we just ditch them because they're not for us, and I realised I had a seriously bad case of series anti-commitment. That's where this post comes in. Today, I'm going to make a commitment to series and choose a handful of series that I want to start that are either complete or almost complete, and I will do my best with the help of my local libraries to complete them by the end of the year. I'm fully aware of the high chance of failure, but I'm going to try anyway. The following are some options I will choose from. I won't be able to complete them all..

The Lunar Chronicles - Marrisa Meyer

I have been nagged, encouraged, told and threatened by people to start this series, and I have good news, I'm playing on trying to take out Cinder and Scarlet from one my local libraries either this month or next. I know, I'll finally be reading The Lunar Chronicles and checking out the fuss. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that a library gets a copy of Cress before the year is up too. This is a high priority series and I'm hoping I can do it.

Legend - Marie Lu

This is another series that I've been encouraged to start and read, and it's only since I've seeing the first two available in my libraries that I've been pushed. Sadly, I've not seen Champion yet, however, there's still eight and half months in which it may appear, so I'm holding out hope the series to be available. This series is at least complete and while it's not hugely high on the list, it is a series I keep considering.

Curse Workers - Holly Black

I've heard very little about this series, other than some bloggers I really trust have enjoyed them and rated them pretty highly, and that the covers are gorgeous. I've been meaning to start this series for over a year, but after a recent nosey on my local libraries, I found and located White Cat and saw that the others are available to take out too, so starting and finishing this series should be a doddle for me. Here's hoping I enjoy while I make my way through them.

Graceling Realm - Kristin Cashore

Once again, this is another series I've seen around the libraries, and I've already gone and bitten the bullet with this series too and taken out Graceling and Fire, so I'm really hoping they're enjoyable reads, and of course, I'll locate Bitterblue somewhere and finish this trilogy, and for once, the UK covers are actually pretty darn beautiful.

Under The Never Sky - Veronica Rossi

As of right now, my library only has the first two in this trilogy, however, I'm fairly confident that they'll get Into the Still Blue in during the year, and this is a series I've been slowly feeling a pull towards. I've heard the survival story is strong, the friendship is pretty amazing, and that the romance is both sweet and strong, so I'm officially tempted by the thought of trying the series. I am however, not a huge fan of these covers, dang the UK.

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

I've had this post prepared for a bout two weeks now, and in those upcoming two weeks, I already started this series with The Hunger Games and it's fair to say that if I didn't have the sequel, and if I wasn't making this commitment, I probably would never have finished it, but I plan to see this series through and see if it improves. There's plenty of room for improvement and plenty of room to grow, so I'm waiting to see if Collins will take advantage of that.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan

I'll let you get the fury of those covers out of your system. I know, the UK seriously failed when it came to cover art and model of Percy, please, don't shout at me. Now that's sorted, I've constantly been nagged to read this by all most everyone, for years. I remember seeing The Lightning Thief in the pictures and really enjoying it, only to be told I was wrong and that it was a rubbish film and nothing like the books and lardy dardy dar.. In the end, I put off reading the series because I was judged for enjoying the film, but after doing a Who Wore It Better with Nitzan on the covers, being pushed by actual book lovers and not film haters to try it, I'm actually going to bite the bullet and give it a go. This should be the easiest of the lot to complete.

I'm open to any other ideas or recommendations and I'm more than willing to look them up and see the availability, so if you've got any you think would be good for me to commit to, give your thoughts. Do you think this is a good idea? Do you think you'll do it too? Could you see a series through to the end even if you don't like it hugely?