Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isle of Night | 2011 | S.J. West | N/A |
| 2 | Cursed | 2012 | S.J. West | Buy |
| 3 | Blessed | 2012 | S.J. West | Buy |
| 4 | Vampire’s Kiss | 2012 | S.J. West | N/A |
| 5 | Blood Fever | 2012 | S.J. West | N/A |
| 6 | Forgiven | 2012 | S.J. West | Buy |
| 7 | The Last | 2012 | S.J. West | N/A |
| 8 | Dark Craving | 2013 | S.J. West | N/A |
| 9 | Reckoning | 2016 | S.J. West | N/A |
The Watchers is S.J. West’s longest-running and best-known series, spanning nine books published between 2011 and 2016. It starts with Isle of Night, which introduces readers to a hidden world of supernatural guardians, and continues through titles like Cursed, Blessed, Vampire’s Kiss, Blood Fever, Forgiven, The Last, Dark Craving, and Reckoning. This is the series that launched West’s career and established the shared universe that many of her later books build on.
The scope of the series grew considerably over its five-year run. Early books focus tightly on the main characters and their immediate conflicts, while later entries expand the mythology to include vampires, darker forces, and larger supernatural politics. West published the bulk of the series in 2012 and 2013 before returning for Reckoning in 2016, which gave her time to develop the world further through spinoff series in between. For new readers interested in S.J. West’s work, The Watchers is the best place to start, since nearly everything else she has written connects back to this world in some way.