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Sunday, May 15, 2011

* Series Ratings at-a-glance

Listed below are the most recent ratings (shown to the left of the series name) for the series I've reviewed, listed in alphabetical order by genre. Click the series name to go to my reviews of the books in the series.

This gives a good at-a-glance idea of what is out there and how I rate it, but to really get an idea of how a series has gone, you need to read more about the series. For instance, I've got the Stephanie Plum series rated a 6 of 10 because the latter books have gone from good to silly... but the first 8 or 10 books in the series were very good, many of them a 10 of 10.  The Dresden series is the opposite, with some of the middle books not rating very well, but the most recent book being good enough to raise the series by several points. 
There are also some debut series here, and in some cases there are only one or two books out. Not really enough for a full series rating, but I've got them listed here because it's not right to leave them off, either.

I guess the point is to just remember that the rating you see is how I've rated the series after the last book in that series that I've read - and that the rating may have been different at another point in the series.

Urban Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Romantic Urban Fantasy, Fantasy
. 9 of 10 Allie Beckstrom series by Devon Monk (after six books)
. 8 of 10 Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs (two books, two short stories)
. 9 of 10 Anita Blake series by Laurel K. Hamilton (after nineteen books)
10 of 10 series by M.L.N. Hanover (after three books)
. 8 of 10 Blood series by Tanya Huff (after six books)
. 8 of 10 Bloodhound Files by DD Barant (after two books)
. 8 of 10 Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman (after six books)
. 6 of 10 Dante Valentine series by by Lilith Saintcrow (after five books)
. 8 of 10 Dark-Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon (after nineteen plus books)
. 7 of 10 Delilah Street series by Carole Nelson Douglas (after four books)
. 9 of 10 Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (after twelve books)
. 8 of 10 series by Ilona Andrews (after one book)
10 of 10 series by Jennifer Estep  (after four books)
. 5 of 10 Embers by Laura Bickle (after one book)
. 7 of 10 Felix Gomez series by Mario Acevedo (after five books)
10 of 10 Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh (after two books)
10 of 10 The Hollows / Rachel Morgan series by Kim Harrison (nine books, many shorts)
. 8 of 10 Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole (after eight books)
. 5 of 10 Iron Elves series by Chris Evans (after two books)
. 9 of 10 series by Nicole Peeler (after three books)
10 of 10 series by Faith Hunter (after three books)
. 8 of 10 Justine Jones, Disillusionist series by Carolyn Crane (after two books)
10 of 10 Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews (after four books)
10 of 10 Kitty Norville Series by Carrie Vaughn (after eight books)
. 6 of 10 Master of None series by Sonya Bateman
10 of 10 Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs (after six books)
10 of 10 Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton (after eight books)
10 of 10 Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost (after five books)
. 8 of 10 Nightcreature/Moon series by Lori Handeland (after six books)
10 of 10 series by Seanan McGuire (after four books)
. 6 of 10 Phoenix Chronicles by Lori Handeland (after four books)
10 of 10 Psy-Changelings series by Nalini Singh (after nine books)
. 8 of 10 Rhiannon's Law series by J.A. Saare (after one book)
. 9 of 10 Riley Jensen, Guardian series by Keri Arthur  (after nine books)
10 of 10 series by Seressia Glass (after two books)
10 of 10 Skindancer series by Anthony Francis (after one book)
. 9 of 10 Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire by Charlaine Harris (after eleven plus books)
. 9 of 10 Soul Mates series by Jourdan Lane (also listed under Erotica) (after four books)
. 9 of 10 by Jill Myles (after two books)
10 of 10 Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (after four books)
. 4 of 10 Unmentionables / Diesel  series by Janet Evanovich (after one book)
. 9 of 10 Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (after one book)
. 8 of 10 Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong (after eleven plus books)

Paranormal Chik-Lit
. 6 of 10 by Madelyn Alt (after six books)
. 8 of 10 Bronwyn the Witch series by Candace Havens (after four books)
. 7 of 10 Caruthers Sisters by Candace Havens (after one book)
. 8 of 10 Psychic Eye Mysteries by Victoria Laurie (after eight books)

Crime Solving Women
. 8 of 10 Izzy Spellman series by Lisa Lutz (after three books)
. 6 of 10 Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series by Sue Grafton (after seventeen books)
. 9 of 10 Mercy Gunderson mystery series by Lori Armstrong (after one book)
. 9 of 10 Nadia Stafford series by Kelley Armstrong (after two books)
. 9 of 10 series by Richard Castle (after two books)
. 6 of 10. series by Patricia Cornwell (after seventeen books)
. 6 of 10 Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich  (after 16+ books)

Other
. 9 of 10 series by Jeff Lindsay (after four books)
10 of 10 series by Michael Connelly (after eight books)

Erotica and BDSM
10 of 10 Butterfly Unpinned by Laura Bacchi and Bonnie Dee (after one book)
. 9 of 10 Chaos Magic series by Jay Lygon (after three books)
. 7 of 10 Dark Elves series by Jet Mykles (after two books)
10 of 10 Deviations Series by Chris Owen and Jodi Payne (after four books)
. 8 of 10 Jarheads series by Sean Michael (after six books)
. 7 of 10 The Master Chronicles by Jamie Craig (after five books)
. 6 of 10 Masters of the Shadowlands by Cherise Sinclair (after four books)
. 8 of 10 Daughter's of Arianne by Joey W.Hill (after three books)
10 of 10 Nature of Desire series by Joey W. Hill (after seven books)
. 9 of 10 Soul Mates series by Jourdan Lane (also listed under Urban Fantasy) (after four books)
. 6 of 10 Trattenbourgh Affair series by JJ Giles (after one book)

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2 comments:

  1. Hi! great idea this list! really helpful, it's kind of scary to notice how many books are being published this years, and scarier to note how many I've read! It would be great if you can add which series are completed (like twilight) and which ones are planning to end at some point (like Merry Gentry) and which ones will go on and on until the end of time (like Anita's). Thank you so much for your work.

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  2. Ah, that should be easy enough to do, I'll try to add that in the next time I do this.

    The Riley series is done, but Keri Arthur is starting another series in the same world, so we'll still get to see Riley from a distance.

    The Sookie series only has (I think) two more books.

    I'm not sure off the top of my head how many Merry books are left, but I do remember that there is going to be an end and we aren't that far from the end.

    Dresden is going to end in the lower twenties, with the final three books being some sort of trilogy, IIRC.

    That's all I know off the top of my head.

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