I don't usually set out to do full series rereads out of order; what normally happens is that I'll want to reread one specific book because it's got a scene in it I like or something, and then I'll be in the mood for more set in that universe so I'll bounce around the series some until I've read through the series.
In the case of the Kate Griffin novels this time, let me see -- I reread A Madness of Angels (Book 1) at some point last year, but wasn't in the mood for the rest of the series at the time. When The Hanging Tree (which is from a completely different series by a completely different author, but the same genre of "urban fantasy set in London") came out last month, I meant to reread Rivers of London because I don't remember what happened in that series, but I don't like those books as much as I like the Kate Griffin ones, so I picked up The Midnight Mayor (Book 2) instead, and because I was in the mood for the rest of the Swift novels, I read the next two books in that series as well. Then I skipped the first Magicals Anonymous book, Stray Souls (which you could also say is book 5 in the Swift series, it just switches focus to a different character but is set in the same 'verse and immediately follows The Minority Council) because it's the only one of those six books I don't have a digital copy of, and I do a lot of reading on my computer and I think I was on the couch or something, so I didn't want to get the physical copy off my shelf. So I read The Glass God (book 6; Magicals Anonymous 2) instead -- also because I reread Stray Souls last year, but at the time didn't want to go onto The Glass God (Stray Souls is my least favorite of the lot, though it's still a good book). And when I finished that I was still in a mood for the series so I looped back around to A Madness of Angels. The jury is still out on whether I'll pick up Stray Souls after I finish it or not.
Human brains are weird, in other words. That's about the same process I'll go through with other out of order series rereads, though it only works if I've read the series a couple of times before. (I think with the Kate Griffin novels I've read the Swift books around half a dozen times; I think this might only have been my first reread of the Magicals Anonymous duo. --I normally do rereads because I'm really wary of unfamiliar-to-me authors, since I'm so picky about things.) I'll also do the same thing with TV show rewatches, depending on the show.
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In the case of the Kate Griffin novels this time, let me see -- I reread A Madness of Angels (Book 1) at some point last year, but wasn't in the mood for the rest of the series at the time. When The Hanging Tree (which is from a completely different series by a completely different author, but the same genre of "urban fantasy set in London") came out last month, I meant to reread Rivers of London because I don't remember what happened in that series, but I don't like those books as much as I like the Kate Griffin ones, so I picked up The Midnight Mayor (Book 2) instead, and because I was in the mood for the rest of the Swift novels, I read the next two books in that series as well. Then I skipped the first Magicals Anonymous book, Stray Souls (which you could also say is book 5 in the Swift series, it just switches focus to a different character but is set in the same 'verse and immediately follows The Minority Council) because it's the only one of those six books I don't have a digital copy of, and I do a lot of reading on my computer and I think I was on the couch or something, so I didn't want to get the physical copy off my shelf. So I read The Glass God (book 6; Magicals Anonymous 2) instead -- also because I reread Stray Souls last year, but at the time didn't want to go onto The Glass God (Stray Souls is my least favorite of the lot, though it's still a good book). And when I finished that I was still in a mood for the series so I looped back around to A Madness of Angels. The jury is still out on whether I'll pick up Stray Souls after I finish it or not.
Human brains are weird, in other words. That's about the same process I'll go through with other out of order series rereads, though it only works if I've read the series a couple of times before. (I think with the Kate Griffin novels I've read the Swift books around half a dozen times; I think this might only have been my first reread of the Magicals Anonymous duo. --I normally do rereads because I'm really wary of unfamiliar-to-me authors, since I'm so picky about things.) I'll also do the same thing with TV show rewatches, depending on the show.