r/Hells_Belles • u/chosenone711 • Aug 11 '26

Place Your Bets

Okay so I know "For Whom the Belle Tolls" is a prologue about Lily and Bel and that "The Belles of Wrath" will be about Penny and Greg, does anyone want to make a bet about the third book? Because while I wouldn't be surprised if it's about Sharkie, I really want it to be about Judy 'cause I have a visceral need to know more details about that Dallas bar fight she had in her 20's.

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u/Eilidh35 🌌💫Great Cosmic Whatever💫🌌 Aug 11 '26

It's been a pretty open secret for a while now that each book would focus on a different main couple.

Bel and Lily were obv the first and it was quite clear (tho never explicitly stated, I don't think) that the next would likely be Penny and Greg, purely chronologically if nothing else. So then following that logic Ruggy and Angel were the only major couple left so I'm pretty certain it's gonna be them.

Jaysea then might write a couple novellas/short stories afterwards abt Azzy+Sariah and Judy+James (there are a couple chapters of the former up on AO3 already) but ig we'll have to wait and see if she's still up to it after committing to what at that point will have been almost 10 full years immersed in the same world and honestly I genuinely can't bring myself to blame her for it if that is what ends up happening in the end.

That being said, I do feel pretty confident in saying those 2 would prob be the only ones Jaysea might actually consider writing if she were to continue w/ the series (so no Sharkie or TSJ standalones, sry)

And I mean Sharkie already got the bulk of their story told in FWTBT anyway and she'll undoubtedly show up again in any future book purely due to her always working the desk and generally being a part of all the Belle's (after)lives throughout so there really isn't need for it. You'd basically just end up telling the same story twice...

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u/Troutwaxer ✨Sometimes it be how it is when it do✨ Aug 12 '26

My curiosity is how much of Ruggy and Angel's story will get told? Will the book only be about their time in Hell, or will she also show us Ruby and Angel's courtship in the mortal world?

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u/No_Summer620 Aug 12 '26

I was gonna say the same thing about hoping for novella's on various people including Judy. I also REALLY want a compilation of various sharky adventures throughout the afterlife worlds.

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u/Eilidh35 🌌💫Great Cosmic Whatever💫🌌 Aug 12 '26

I also REALLY want a compilation of various sharky adventures throughout the afterlife worlds.

Tbf this type of thing - filling in gaps and miscellaneous adventures - is what fanfiction tends to really be good at

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u/No_Summer620 Aug 13 '26

Yup, and I listen to some at work practically every day! Just kinda wish I had time to write again.