I got the idea for this post from Reading With Jessica; the idea of this tag is to come up with some characters or books that you would love spin-offs for! Some of these spin-offs are for books I’ve read recently, whilst others are for books that I read a while ago. Be warned of spoilers for The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington!
First up is something from a book I recently read; Frost from Zoë Marriott’s FrostFire is a fabulous character who is not very feminine… she loves to fight with her father’s axe & she has absolutely no issues with getting dirty during a good battle. FrostFire as a book was a fabulous read, with lots of different plots & amazing writing. What I would really love would be a short story about what happened when Frost went back to court with Luca – I would love to read the scenes where she had to put on a big dress for court for the first time & what her reaction would be to feasts & servants!
Another spin-off I would love to see involves Cyan from Laura Lam’s Micah Grey trilogy… now I guess I’m cheating a little bit here because Laura has already released a short novella about Cyan & her life before she enters into Micah’s story! And trust me, I loved the novella (read my reviews for the Micah Grey novellas here) – Cyan is my fav character in the series for soooo many reasons, so having a novella that allowed me to learn more about her was awesome… but it definitely left me wanting more. I know Laura’s brain is overrun with incredible book ideas, but I would die for a full length novel about Cyan.
Another tale I would love to read would be about Iris’s parents, from Starswept by Mary Fan. We don’t know much about Iris’s parents in the first book, & I have a feeling Mary will tell us more as the series continues… but, once the series is over I would adore for Mary to write a short story (hell, I’d love a full length novel) about the relationship between Iris’s parents & how it affected them both to be separated from each other & their daughter.
I would also really love a sequel, even if it’s just a short novella, to The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington – this book is one of my favourite reads of the year & the ending was full of so much emotion. I would love to know how the opening of the dress shop goes & how the main characters manage to adjust to no longer being prisoners of war; I think both Ella & Rose would definitely have had ended up with a form of PTSD & I’d also like to know more about what happened to Rose’s mum during the war, as she doesn’t speak about it much during her short time in the novel.
When I finished reading I Believe In A Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo all I could think about is how much I would love a sequel set in like, 10 years time to see how Desi & Luca’s relationship turns out; I mean, it’s obvious that they will be together forever but I would just love to see them in their own house, maybe with their own children & of course a family dog. I’d love to see what Desi’s father is like as a grandfather as well, & learning more about Luca’s background would be fun too.
I’m also probably not the only one who would really like a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale – for me, it felt like the book was only just getting started when it finished & I was definitely disappointed when it was over. I feel like the novel could have worked so well as a much longer book, even if it was 600 pages or something; there was so much more that Atwood could have done with the world she created & it just makes zero sense to me to leave that story where it finished in the first book.
So glad you enjoyed my post and did it too!! Loved seeing your ideas on spin offs ❤ Great job!!
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