Top Ten Tuesday #382

Hi everyone! I hope you’ve all had a good week since I last did one of these. It’s been a fairly quiet one here, I’ve mostly been watching the European Championships on TV, it’s been a great summer for sport, and so nice that sport that I actually like has been on!

Anyway, it’s Tuesday, so that means another Top Ten Tuesday, courtesy of Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Today we’re talking Completed Series We Wish Had More Books and I have to admit, this one stumped me a little. I don’t generally finish a series thinking I wish that there were more, and if I do, a lot of authors that I’d want more books from in the same world have either already announced a sequel series, or already done one! So in a change from last week’s list, this one will actually be quite short, as there weren’t too many I could think of:

1. The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

I was generally quite happy with how the series wrapped up, but the epilogue with them listening to Hitler on the radio, definitely suggested that Libba Bray was maybe leaving the door open for a future 1930s/WWII era Diviners story and I would so love it if she did that, because I really don’t want to have to leave the Diviners behind completely!

2. The Pure Trilogy-Julianna Baggott

There were a lot of questions left open at the ending of Burn, the final book in the trilogy, and I don’t much like open endings, so I’d really like it if Baggott came back to this world one day. It’s been a while since I finished it, but there was a lot left up in the air about what happened to the Dome and the people inside, and whether they were able to survive outside it or not, so I would really love it if Baggott would come back to this world one day and answer some of my burning *pun most definitely intended* questions.

3. Breathe duology-Sarah Crossan

I wish this duology had actually been a trilogy, as there was a lot crammed into this second book and it felt like it would have been given more room to *sorry for the pun* breathe if it had been three books. It’s still a really good duology and I would definitely recommend it, but I would love it if Sarah Crossan decided to come back to this world one day to tie up some of the loose ends, and just so I got to be with Bea, Quinn and Alina again.

4. Heist Society series-Ally Carter

It feels like there have been rumours of Heist Society 4 for YEARS and yet nothing ever seems to come of it. It’s not that the third book leaves off on any major cliffhanger or anything, so the three books could work well as a completed series, but I definitely want more. For one thing, we need to know what the W.W. in Hale’s name stands for! For another, I just need more of Kat and her crew in my life.

5. The Shadow Game series-Amanda Foody

Amanda Foody has said Queen of Volts is the end of Levi and Enne’s story, and that’s fine, it definitely felt like a very completed arc for them. However, there are so many other characters in this series that could definitely star in their own books, and I would love it if Amanda decided she wanted to some standalone books in this world following different characters in the series. I am dying for books about Lourdes and Vianca, I would love stories following what happened during the Revolution and downfall of the Mizers, there are so many possibilities of different characters whose stories she could follow. Maybe a set of short stories in the world like SA Chakraborty did for Daevabad would be fun? I don’t know but if she decided to return to New Reynes in any form, I would be THERE for it.

6. The Crown’s Game duology-Evelyn Skye

This was another duology that I really felt should have been a trilogy, the second book just didn’t feel like a finale. Duologies I find are really hard to get right: trilogies generally have a very clear beginning, middle and end whereas duologies, I tend to find authors try to cram so much into the second book in order to have it end in two that it usually feels very rushed. The Crown’s Fate didn’t really do enough in the first half of the book, and then packed it all in towards the climax and everything was wrapped up far too quickly, it was like Evelyn Skye suddenly realised she only had a couple of chapters to end the book! I would have much preferred it if Skye had made this a trilogy, because as a duology, it felt very underwhelming.

So that’s it for today, it’s a short and sweet one! Have you read any of these series? Do you agree that you’d like more books in their worlds? What books did you have on your list this week? Let me know in the comments!

I’ll be back next week for another Top Ten Tuesday, this time it’s a School Freebie, and I thought it would be a fun time to do a sequel to the Best Books I Read In My First Two Years At Uni topic I did about five or so years ago, so I’ll be doing Best Books I Read In My Last Two Years At Uni.