Get Ready for Hellbent!
Since some questions are coming in from readers wondering if they need to read anything to prepare for Falls Boys and the beginning of the Hellbent series, I made a cheat sheet! Information in this post may be a spoiler.
Do I need to read the Fall Away series first?
No, but it wouldn’t hurt. The first several books of the Hellbent series take place in their hometown, so the parents are around a lot. The Fall Away series is their parents’ stories. You’ll enjoy Hellbent more when you spot little Easter eggs and revisit old haunts from the first books.
If you want to read the parents’ stories first, the order is:
- Bully https://amzn.to/3pkadK8
- 5 Until You (Jared’s POV with lots of new content and an extended ending) https://amzn.to/3vrelMi
- Rival https://amzn.to/359MzJD
- Falling Away https://amzn.to/3stiDkm
- Aflame https://amzn.to/3BXZslT
- Next to Never https://amzn.to/3C6E2mD (Reading this at least is a very good idea. The kids’ stories start here.)
*Please note, Aflame and Next to Never are long novellas (about 60K words each) in a paperback together called The Next Flame. Or you can read them separately in ebook form under their original titles.
6. Adrenaline is just a bonus content book of scenes and conversations I wrote over the course of the series. You can find it for sale on all retailers or for FREE here à https://w.tt/3pqu4HL
7. It is also a good idea (but not required) to read the standalones, Misconduct and Credence. Christian from Misconduct will be a love interest in the Hellbent series, and Noah from Credence is a significant side character. No certainty yet if he will get his own book.
I don’t want to read the Fall Away series, but do the kids appear anywhere before the Hellbent series starts that I can read to catch up on hints about their stories?
Yep!
They appear in the following shorts. This is the order they should be read.
- The epilogue of Aflame https://amzn.to/3MaTClK
- Next to Never Deleted Prologue https://bit.ly/3M9mefi FREE
- The Next Generation Bonus Scene https://bit.ly/3C1Oz2h FREE
- Next to Never Deleted Scene 1 https://bit.ly/3tn1Fnc FREE
- Next to Never https://amzn.to/3C6E2mD
- Adrenaline has several little conversations for a little bonus https://w.tt/3pqu4HL FREE
- Anti-Love Letter to Thomasin Dietrich https://bit.ly/36aPOR8
- Chistian from Misconduct will be a love interest in Hellbent. Misconduct isn’t required but encouraged.
- And of course, feel free to search the #Hellbent or #Fallaway tags in my reader group for any other little teasers or convos I wrote as free bonuses after Adrenaline was published. https://bit.ly/3tgcebr FREE
Hope this helps! Thanks to Joana Sofia for the family trees!
Add Falls Boys to your TBR —> https://bit.ly/3vu6ZaP
Pre-Order Falls Boys (will be live in Kindle Unlimited on release day)
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Some additional questions coming in if you’re interested:
- Do I have to read every Hellbent book or are they standalones? I’m trying to make them standalones, but there is a series plot playing in the background that develops over all the books. I’ll do my best to bring you up to speed quickly for those skipping books, but be warned of the way I write. My series characters always appear heavily in each other’s books, so you’ll still see your favorite characters, even if it’s not their story.