The Serial-Killer Challenge 2025: Free your TBR from book series!

Dear book series fans, a warm welcome to the second Serial Killer Challenge,
My SuB¹ aka TBR is still full of many book series. Some of them I have already started, but then I had to wait for the next installment. Other series were allowed to move in onto my shelves completely before I started reading them.
But then there are also series that have been gradually moved in so that they can then be binge-read, at least that is the plan. 😊

With The Serial Killer Challenge 2025, I would like to counter my book series and also count points.

The Serial-Killer Rules

Read and score

Have fun reading, don’t be stressed out. The challenge should motivate you to reduce your TBR full of serial books
The challenge runs from January 01, 2025 to December 31, 2025
If you want to participate, create a challenge page on your blog and leave me the link in a comment
Getting into the challenge is possible at any time
Only books ^{(hardcover, paperback, ebook)} and audiobooks count; No mangas, comics etc.
For individual editions, the formats ^{(print, eBook, audiobook)} to finish a series can also be mixed
Have fun reading, don’t be stressed out. The challenge should motivate you to reduce your sub full of serial books.
The challenge runs from 01.01.2025 to December 31, 2025
If you want to participate, create a challenge on your blog and leave me the link in a comment
Getting into the challenge is possible at any time
Only books (hardcover, paperback, eBook) and audiobooks count; No mangas, comics etc.
For individual editions, the formats (print, eBook, audiobook) to end a row can also be mixed
Also double editions count (if you have a complete series both as a print, ebook and/or audiobook or even have it in another language)

Example: I have the NEVERNIGHT series completely in German and English. Here, if I read both languages, I can score twice. Within a language, I can have the series in all formats to finish it.
If I had the German translation completely in hardcover and e-book format, I could score three times if I read them all.

Reviews on read books are not mandatory, but will be rewarded with points
To end a series you do not necessarily have to buy the next volume, there is also a loan (friends, library, etc.) or if it was gifted to you, because it is only important that the installment has been read
You can start with any volume in a series that would be next, the exquisite points arise from the series numbers
Collection volumes result in the sum of the series numbers (e.g., Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring = 1 pt + The Two Towers = 2 pts + The Return of the King = 3 pts, That equals 6 pts.)
In the case of clearly split volumes (e.g., Part 1, Part 2, …), you’ll receive only half of the points
For the correct order (including intermediate volumes), please use the information at Goodreads, because non-English publishers tend to indicate/use a different (in my eyes false) series numbering
At the end of the year, I have a little surprise for the person (except me) with the most points (announcement in January 2026) 😍

The point system for each book in the series read

each volume receives the number of points of the series number (1^st volume = 1 point, intermediate volume 1.5 = 1.5 points, 2^nd volume = 2 points etc.)
per completed series = 15 points^{(or if no further volumes are published in 2025)}
half points are awarded for re-reads
Additional points: for each volume reviewed = 2 points ^{(please link)}
Additional point: Audiobooks/books with more than 12 hours/500 pages = 1 point.

The Serial-Killer Challenge 2025

Tackle your book series TBR stack

Pts

Status: Feb 09, 2025

Volume №	Title & Series & Authors	Pages/Duration	Re-Read	Finished*	Points
1	Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1) ♦ Callie Hart ^{Audible Audio}	20h 42min	—	?	2 pts
1	Queen of None (Queens of Fate, #1) ♦ Natania Barron ^{Kindle Edition/ARC}	315 pp	—	—	3 pts.
1	Blood Iron & Bone (The Lightbringers, #1) ♦ Sera Foxe ^{Kindle Edition/ARC}	567 pp	—	?	4 pts.
1	Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) ♦ Richelle Mead^Paperback	332 pp	—	—	3 pt.
3	Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) ♦ Rebecca Yarros ^{Kindle Edition}	779 pp	—	✔	21 pts.
3	Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) ♦ Rebecca Yarros ^{Audible Audio}	23h 52min	—	✔	19 pts.
1	When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1) ♦ Sarah A. Parker ^{Audible Audio}	20h 11min	—	?	2 pts.
1	The Prophecy of the Yubriy Tree (The Song of the Burning Heart, #1) ♦ Ben Spencer ^{Kindle Edition/ARC}	379 pp	—	?	0 pts.
1	The Book of Azrael (Gods & Monsters, #1) ♦ Amber V. Nicole ^Paperback	587 pp	—	?	2 pts.
3.1	The Reckoning (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Zodiac Academy, #3.1) ♦ Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti ^{Audio Audible}	6h 38min	—	?	1.5 pts.
2.1	A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Blood and Ash, #2.1) ♦ Jennifer L. Armentrout ^{Audio Audible}	9h 08min	—	?	1 pt.
1	A Touch of Darkness (Hades X Persephone, #1) ♦ Scarlett St. Clair	11h 06min	—	—	1 pt.
0.5	Darius (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #0.5) ♦ J.R. Ward	295 pp	—	—	0.5 pts.
1	A Game of Fate (Hades Saga, #1) ♦ Scarlett St. Clair	11h 33min	—	—


	*including no further volumes in 2025			Total:	60 pts.

Serial-Killer Accomplices

Killer-Accomplices	Killer Pts.	Killer-Accomplices	Killer Pts.
► RoXXie of The Art of Reading	54 pts.	► Lisa of wasliestlisa	18 pts.
► Sara of Reading Passion	0 pts.	► Franzy of FranzysBuchsalon	19 pts.
► Sandra von Sandras Lesewelt	4 pts.	►	0 pts.