Camilla's Series Challenge

[Camilla]

Plans

Series to be completed
5 Alexander Gordon Smith Escape from Furnace #1-2 read, cannot finish as library has only first two books
3 Rachel Hawkins Hex Hall #1-2 read
3 James Dashner The Maze Runner #1-2 read
8/9? Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson #1 read
12 P.C. Cast House of night #1-11 read
3 Hugh Howey Silo #1 read
3 Teri Terry Slated #1-2 read
6 Cassandra Clare Mortal Instruments #1-5 read
5 The Ender Quintet #1-2 read
5 Dublin Murder Squad #1 read
7 Tomorrow #1 read
3 The Last Policeman #1 read
7 Drake Chronicles #1 read
6 The Immortals #1 read
4 Oxford Time Travel #1 read
3 MaddAddam #1 read


Series killed during challenge
✔4 Dave Gurney completed
✔7 Blue Bloods completed
✔19 Koskinen completed
✔3 Legend completed
✔ 6 Vampire Academy completed
✔3 Insignia completed
✔7 Shopaholic completed
✔3 Chaos Walking completed
✔3 The Hollow started & completed
✔3 Syrjästäkatsojan tarinoita completed
✔3 Bartimaeus Sequence completed
✔4 Watch completed
✔3 Under the Never Sky started & completed
✔3 Penryn & the End of Days completed
✔3 Earth Girl started & completed
✔5 Ender's Shadow started & completed
✔4 The Giver Quartet started & completed


Series started during challenge
The Elemental Apocalypse Quartet
Under the Never Sky (also completed)
The Ender Quartet
Simon Serrailler
Ty Hauck
Dublin Murder Squad
Elina Wiik
Tomorrow
Michael Bennett
The Last Policeman
Drake Chronicles
Ender's Shadow (also completed)
The Immortals
The Giver Quartet (also completed)
Oxford Time Travel
MaddAddam
The Hollow (also completed)
Miss Marple
The Magicians
Earth Girl (also completed)
The Infected
MEG
Hercule Poirot
Deadly Beauties
Detroitopia
Cormoran Strike
Extraordinary voyages


You will have completed the challenge if you have reached 100 points AND have killed off at least one series.
Trilogy = 30 pts base
Four book series = 40 pts
Five book series = 50 pts
Six book series = 60 pts
Seven book series = 70 pts
Eight book series = 80 pts
Nine book series = 90 pts
Ten or more book series = 100 pts

[Camilla]

Level 1 completed

✔Prodigy (Legend #2) 5 points 04Feb
✔Kuivunut maailma (The Elemental Apocalypse Quartet #1) 5 points 27Jan
✔Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky #1) 5 points 18Jan
✔Solitary (Escape from Furnace #2) 5 points 04Jan
✔Ender (The Ender Quartet #1) 5 points 20Jan
✔The Gates of Paradise (Blue Bloods #7) completes the series, 5 + 70 points = 75 points 24Jan

Total 100 points

[Camilla]

Level 2 completed

✔Mustat sydämet (Koskinen #19) completes the series 5 + 100 points = 105 points 07Feb

Total 105 points

[Camilla]

Level 3 completed

✔Kuoleman asetelma (Pendergast #4) 5 points 22Feb
✔The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2) 5 points 27Feb
✔The Risk of Darkness (Simon Serrailler #3) 5 points 06Mar
✔Don't Look Twice (Ty Hauck #2) 5 points 17Mar
✔In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) 5 points 26Mar
✔Tappakaa Peter Pan (Dave Gurney #4) completes the series 5 + 40 points = 45 points 03Mar
✔Champion (Legend #3) completes the series 3 + 30 points = 35 points 16Mar

Total: 105 points

[Camilla]

Level 4 completed

✔Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6) completes the series 5 + 60 points = 65 points 03Apr
✔Kuolleessa kulmassa (Elina Wiik #3) 5 points 08Apr
✔Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow #1) 5 points 10Apr
✔Vaarallinen varjostaja (Komisario Heikkilä #4) 5 points 21Apr
✔Naamiotanssi (Komisario Heikkilä #6) 5 points 22Apr
✔Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky #2) 5 points 04May
✔Gone (Michael Bennett #6) 5 points 06May
✔Iso paha susi (Alex Cross #9) 5 points 10May

Total 100 points

[Camilla]

Level 5 completed

✔Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh #3) 5 points 13May
✔The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus Sequence #2) 5 points 14May
✔Heinäkuun neljäs (Women's Murder Club #4) 5 points 15May
✔Häpäisty (Grant County #6) 5 points 15May
✔The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman #1) 5 points 23May
✔My Love Lies Bleeding (Drake Chronicles #1) 5 points 29May
✔Ender's Shadow (Ender's Shadow #1) 5 points 30May
✔Tuhopolttaja (Maria Wern #14) 5 points 03Jun
✔Evermore (The Immortals #1) 5 points 03Jun
✔Catalyst (Insignia #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 08Jun
✔The Giver (The Giver Quartet #1) 5 points 14Jun
✔Tuomiopäivän kirja (Oxford Time Travel #1) 5 points 21Jun
✔Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1) 5 points 24Jun
✔World After (Penryn & the End of Days #2) 5 points

Total 100 points

[Camilla]

Level 6 completed

✔Himoshoppaaja tähtien tiellä (Shopaholic #7) completes the series, 5 + 70 points = 75 points 05Jul
✔The Hollow (The Hollow #1) 5 points 21Jul
✔Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 26Jul

Total 115 points

[Camilla]

Level 7 completed

✔Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus Sequence #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 29Jul
✔Emännöitsijä (Syrjästäkatsojan tarinoita #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 01Aug
✔Joka yksin kulkee (Anders Knutas #11) 5 points 03Aug
✔The Haunted (The Hollow #2) 5 points 05Aug
✔The Hidden (The Hollow #3) completes the trilogy 5 + 30 points = 35 points 09Aug

Total 115 points

[Camilla]

Level 8 completed

✔Paddingtonista 16.50 (Miss Marple #8) 5 points 28Aug
✔Viimeinen näytös (Anders Knutas #10) 5 points 29Aug
✔Hämärän lapset (Maria Wern #15) 5 points 03Sep
✔Viimeinen partio (Watch #4) completes the series, 3 + 40 points = 45 points 06Sep
✔ Ender in Exile (The Ender Quintet #2) 5 points 12Sep
✔ The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) 5 points 13Sep
✔ Into the Still Blue (Under the Never Sky #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 13Sep

Total 105 points

[jaxnsmom]

You're so organized! I'll admit I've never heard of most of your series. But I might have to add Chaos Walking after reading A Monster Calls.

[Camilla]

jaxnsmom wrote: "You're so organized! I'll admit I've never heard of most of your series. But I might have to add Chaos Walking after reading A Monster Calls."

Organized? The only thing I'm sure of here is that before I finish even one level I will have moved the books around the different levels several times, LOL!

[Camilla]

Summary of first level:
- killed one series
- read second book of two series
- started three new series, two of which I want to continue

[Sarah]

So you're knocking some off your TBR and then adding some more! I do like finding a series I like though.

[Camilla]

Sarah wrote: "So you're knocking some off your TBR and then adding some more! I do like finding a series I like though."

I will be interested to see how many series I've killed and how many started at the end of the year. But the first books of the series that I will continue were already on my TBR shelf before the challenge, so... One of the new series is a trilogy (Under the Never Sky) and one is a quartet (The Ender Quartet), so no long series added at least at this level. I would like to continue the Escape from Furnace series (I've read the first two books) but our library does have only those two, blaah! I hate it when the library starts buying a series and then discontinues.

I usually mark only the first one in the series as TBR until I've read it, just in case I don't like the first book (so I don't need to hunt down and remove the rest of the series). If I like the first one, then I pick the rest of the series to my TBR shelf.

[Sarah]

I'm the same Camilla - I only add the first one until I know if I like it or not. Yes it is frustrating when I library buys a couple then stops. The library audio archive I have access to seems to offer the more recent books in a series but not the first few which is frustrating as I like to read them in order and this then limits what I can listen to until I've read those first ones.

[Camilla]

Summary of second level:
- killed one series (this was an easy level)

[Camilla]

Summary of third level (this is a bit premature, as I'm still reading two of the books):
- killed two series
- read second and fourth book of two series
- read third book of one series, but haven't read the earlier books; I didn't even realise this was part of a series when I borrowed it from the library; not keen to continue
- started one new series, will continue

[jaxnsmom]

I only put the first book of a series on my tbr too. My problem is that half the time I forget to add the second one if I want to continue the series.

I've put in several requests for my library to purchase books and they've gotten a couple of them so far. For some series books I might have to try ILLs.

[Camilla]

jaxnsmom wrote: "I only put the first book of a series on my tbr too. My problem is that half the time I forget to add the second one if I want to continue the series.

I've put in several requests for my library ..."

LOL, same here! But I've tried to add the following books immediately after reading the first one (if I intend to continue).
The Turku main library is quite nice when it comes to requests; they have bought every suggestion that I've made. But I haven't made that many, maybe half a dozen in total. I just requested the second book in the Starbound series, This Shattered World, and they will get it, so I'm first in line to read it. Sadly I can't use it for the series challenge though, as it is only the second book.

[Camilla]

Summary of fourth level:
- killed one series
- read six books from various levels of different series, one of which I will continue for sure
- started one new series, will continue

[Camilla]

Summary of fifth level:
- killed one series
- read five books from various levels of different series
- started seven new series, all to be continued

It looks like I've started more new series during the challenge than I've managed to kill. It wasn't supposed to go this way, was it?

[Cherie]

Camilla wrote: "Summary of fifth level:
- killed one series
- read five books from various levels of different series
- started seven new series, all to be continued

It looks like I've started more new series dur..."

I've decided that all YLTO challenges are evil. Some more than others. I am avoiding counting how many new series I have started and will start yet. Rusalka's Food challenge is going to put me over the top. I have added at least 4 #1 series books to my TBR list that I want to start.

Congratulations on finishing Level 5!

[Camilla]

Cherie wrote: "I've decided that all YLTO challenges are evil. Some more than others."

Ain't that right!

[Sarah]

You love it really ;-)

[Camilla]

Summary of sixth level:
- killed two series
- started one new series, to be continued

[Camilla]

Summary of seventh level:
- two series continued
- three series killed

[Janice, Moderator]

Keep on knocking off those series!

[Sarah]

You are doing amazing Camilla! You seem to be killing more series than me.

[Camilla]

Sarah wrote: "You are doing amazing Camilla! You seem to be killing more series than me."

LOL thanks! But during the challenge I've started more series than finished...

[Sarah]

True! I don't think there is anyway around that it would seem!

[Camilla]

Level 9 completed

✔Syyttävä sormi (Miss Marple #4) 5 points 15Sep
✔The Magicians (The Magicians #1) 5 points 17Sep
✔Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet #2) 5 points 27Sep
✔Pet From Hell (The Infected #1) 5 points 27Sep
✔Earth Girl (Earth Girl #1) 5 points 28Sep
✔End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 07Oct
✔Messenger (The Giver Quartet #3) 5 points 10Oct
✔Meg : syvyyksien kauhu (Meg #1) 5 points 12Oct
✔Earth Star (Earth Girl #2) 5 points 14Oct
✔Earth Flight (Earth Girl #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 20Oct

Total 110 points

[Janice, Moderator]

Looks ambitious.

[Camilla]

Janice wrote: "Looks ambitious."

LOL! Most of those (all the 5-pointers) will be read for this level, mainly because I have them currently on loan from the library. I think I will use only the third book fom the Earth Girl series and the third book from the Penryn series to complete the level; the next completer books will be pushed forward to the next level.

[Janice, Moderator]

Good plan, because there are way more than 100 points listed.

[Camilla]

Level 10 completed

✔Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot #7) 5 points 21Oct
✔Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender's Shadow #2) 5 points 28Oct
✔A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #5) 5 points 30Oct
✔Demonglass (Hex Hall #2) 5 points 30Oct
✔Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties #1) 5 points 02Nov
✔Kuolevaksi julistettu (Koskinen #20) 5 points 05Nov
✔After Detroit (Detroitopia #1) 5 points 05Nov
✔Shadow Puppets (Ender's Shadow #3) 5 points 09Nov
✔Shadow of the Giant (Ender's Shadow #4) 5 points 22Nov
✔Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson #2) 5 points 29Nov
✔Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson #3) 5 points 06Dec
✔The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) 5 points 08Dec
✔Palava huone (Harry Bosch #19) 5 points 10Dec
✔Shadows in Flight (Ender's Shadow #5) completes the quintet 5 + 50 points = 55 points 13Dec

Total 120 points

[Camilla]

Level 11 completed

✔Tsaarin kuriiri (Extraordinary voyages #14) 5 points 17Dec
✔Kuolleiden puolustaja (Ender Quintet #3) 5 points 18Dec
✔Spell Bound (Hex Hall #3) completes the trilogy, 5 + 30 points = 35 points 21Dec
✔Son (The Giver Quartet #4) completes the series, 5 + 40 points = 45 points 22Dec
✔Leijonankesyttäjä (Fjällbacka #9) 5 points 22Dec
✔Haukka ja kyyhky (Arto Ratamo #12) 5 points 27Dec

Total 100 points

[Camilla]

Okay, I think I'm done. Would have liked to complete 12 levels, one for each month, but did not quite succeed.

[Sarah]

You did amazing though Camilla. You must have made a dent in your tbr with that.

[Camilla]

Thanks Sarah! Although my TBR has reached such gigantic proportions that I feel no matter how much I read, nothing will ever make even a smallest dent in it, LOL!