The Face Palm Chronicles Books in Order

The Face Palm Chronicles is Jaid Black in a much more openly satirical mode. Instead of alien planets or hidden Viking kingdoms, these books use a near-future America split into exaggerated political caricatures. The setup is broad, rude, and meant to be a little ridiculous. That is part of the point.

The world runs on culture-war absurdity.

The first book, It's Bigly, drops you into 2073 through the voice of a swaggering patriot from Trumpgolia, a nation defined by bluster, fear, propaganda, and macho posturing. It's Fully Loaded shifts the angle and lets the story breathe from the other side of the wall, through a successful New York artist from the so-called Normal States. Read together, the two books work less like unrelated sequels and more like companion pieces built to bounce off each other.

Setting matters here in a different way than it does in Black’s fantasy and sci-fi romances. The border, the slogans, the fake certainty, and the warped media language are the engine of the series. Characters are not just crossing distance. They are crossing whole belief systems. A lot of the tension comes from how ridiculous those systems look once somebody from the other side gets close enough to see the seams.

These books are not trying to be soft or subtle.

The tone is part dystopian joke, part political farce, and part high-heat romance with a heavy side of culture clash. If you enjoy speculative fiction that takes a current argument, cranks it to eleven, and then drops people into the fallout, this series does that with a straight face and a raised eyebrow at the same time. It also helps to know going in that the humor is intentionally loud. The titles are telling you exactly what kind of ride this is.

Because there are only two books here, the page is especially useful for showing how they fit together. You are not looking at a huge chronology with ten spin-offs. You are looking at a paired satire that works best when you can see the mirror image between book one and book two, and when you know whose point of view you are stepping into.

So this page is less about untangling a giant reading order and more about giving shape to the joke. It explains the split world, shows where each book stands, and helps you decide whether you are in the mood for one of Jaid Black’s stranger turns, a future America that feels ridiculous right up until it does not.