4 Answers2025-08-05
As for what’s next for Rebecca Yarros and her readers after Onyx Storm, Yarros plans for two more books to complete The Empyrean series for a total of six novels. Her fifth and sixth novels will continue to produce plenty of drama, tons of dragons, and, of course, lots of love. I’m looking forward to the conclusion of her work with this series.
11 Answers2025-06-06
I did NOT just get emotionally manipulated by that ending. Without giving too much away, Kaelen’s arc is definitely left open to possibility for a sequel. I’ve been trying to search for any bits of info about a potential sequel online. There’s a fan-run wiki for the Storm series that contains interviews with the author, and I found a link to a virtual con panel interview with him from a few weeks ago. It seems like he’s still hard at work writing the continuation of the Storm saga, and I predict an announcement for the first book of the sequel series will be made late this year with a spring 2025 publication date. Too many plot threads were left dangling for my taste.
4 Answers2025-08-21
For Imager I would recommend reading in publication order: Imager, Imager’s Challenge, Imager’s Intrigue, followed by the Imager Portfolio trilogy Scholar, Princeps, and Imager’s Battalion. Finally read the sub-series “Madness in Solidar”. Reading the books in this order helps to maintain the many reveals and builds out the world of Imager nicely.
3 Answers2026-07-09
Read the Scythe trilogy in the following order: Scythe, Thunderhead, The Toll. After finishing the trilogy, read Gleanings. The anthology contains many backstory and “sidestories” that are far more enjoyable after you have finished reading the main characters and the ultimate fate of our world. Reading it in the middle of the trilogy would stifle much of the momentum that Mr. Shusterman has created for the three novels.
3 Answers2026-07-08
Read the books in publication order. I started with “In Dublin’s Fair City” by accident, but all of the personal arcs are kept intact by reading them in the order listed on the author’s website, so start with “Murphy’s Law”. The series follows Adair’s relationship with Daniel and her growth as a detective in that order.
4 Answers2026-07-25
This is a series, and typically I recommend reading them in story order. However, the first two books, Plum Island and The Lion's Game, are somewhat standalone, and then there are the later books about anti-terror, which are quite different from the middle books. In fact, the first half of the series has a strong feeling of being an NYPD detective series, and the second half has the feeling of a federal agent series. In fact, you could almost read them as two separate series.
6 Answers2026-07-30
These three novels by Giles Blount (published in sequence 2013-2014) form a superb thriller series for people who like their stories to be set in distinctive locations and to develop strongly in sequence. All three Novels are set in Promise Falls which goes from being a somewhat troubled town to a full-blown disaster area as the Novels progress. So, a keen reader should read them in sequence to get the full ‘atmos’ of this great series by Lincolnshire born author, PJ Barclay.
6 Answers2026-07-19
(This is a lengthy post – after reading through it three times, I’ve put together an optimal story-flow order for reading Knights of the Old Republic stories, balancing narrative coherence with switching between different media).
1. Read 'Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith' & 'Fall of the Sith Empire' (comics).
2. Read 'Knights of the Old Republic' comics Vol. 1-4. It continues to follow some of the most fantastic new characters to have been introduced in the Mandalorian War era.
3. Play through the video game 'Knights of the Old Republic I' or watch a full story recap of it.
4. Play/Watch 'Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords'.
5. Read 'The Old Republic: Revan' novel. This is the direct sequel to the video games for the story.
6. Read 'The Old Republic: Deceived'. Reads as a great post-war story to the rest of the comics and books.
7. Watch 'The Old Republic: Return' & 'Hope' CGI Trailers.
8. Read The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance & The Old Republic: Annihilation ( novels set during the Cold War).
By watching the videos in this order, you will get to experience each story with minimal whiplash, while having plenty of time to soak up each tale between videos.
3 Answers2026-07-23
If you want a single, straight-forward tragedy then reading ‘Dead Man’s Walk’ first, followed by ‘Comanche Moon’ then ‘Lonesome Dove’ and finally ‘Streets of Laredo’ is the way to go. It’s a straight-line story that follows the main character from his worst days as a young man to his more mature years as a mythic-like figure and, in old age, to his wizened, somewhat bitter days.
By reading the books in chronological order, Lonesome Dove becomes just another chapter in a long downhill slide. But by reading them in publication order, the epic masterpiece comes first, then the heart-wrenching sequel, and then the brutal prequels that turn everything you thought you knew about the characters before Lonesome Dove inside out. The emotional impact is very different.
6 Answers2026-07-26
I picked up ‘A Time of Dread’ by Mary’s cousin, John Gwynne, first because the cover art looked cool, and second because it seemed to start in the middle of things. It’s been a hundred pages or so of everyone talking about the Great War, the Bright Star, and the Black Sun as if they were all well known. The book does have a rather good glossary at the back and the dramatis personae is also useful. I read ‘The Faithful and the Fallen’ first, and then returned to ‘A Time of Dread’ to read it as well. While the order of a series can often matter little for a basic grasp of the plot, here it adds much to the emotional impact of the story.