When is the right time, to break up with a series?
You know the story, it's an all too familiar one. You fell in love with the first few books, the characters, the smart story-telling, it was funny and fresh.
Like all new love you devoured and treasured those first books. They went to the top of your must read pile and you happily pre-ordered the next in the series months in advance.
Then things started to change. Just little things at first. You questioned whether the fault lay with you, you were tired, cranky, perhaps you had set your expectations too high.
But no, then the next book in the series arrived and it was all too clear, something had gone terribly wrong.
Sometimes it's really easy to cut the cord, big shout out to Mary Janice Davidson and her Undead series. Loved the first three and still happily re-read them. But no... just no to book 4 onwards.
Some series it's a lot harder to accept the truth. And you keep trying (and inevitably failing) until finally you know the characters are better off left to your imagination. That's why I'll never read the final two books in the Sookie Stackhouse series. But thanks Charlaine Harris for the ride.
And some series - well, you just keep buying through the good and the bad. Because when they are good they are stunning. Case in point, Laurell. K. Hamilton's Anita/Vampire slayer series.
So to everyone out there going through a bad break up. I hope you find a new love soon. Trust me when I say, there are plenty more fish in the sea: Darynda Jones, Gail Carriger, Kate Locke, Nalini Singh, Thea Harrison (elder races), Shelly Laurenston/G.A Aiken.
Like all new love you devoured and treasured those first books. They went to the top of your must read pile and you happily pre-ordered the next in the series months in advance.
Then things started to change. Just little things at first. You questioned whether the fault lay with you, you were tired, cranky, perhaps you had set your expectations too high.
But no, then the next book in the series arrived and it was all too clear, something had gone terribly wrong.
Sometimes it's really easy to cut the cord, big shout out to Mary Janice Davidson and her Undead series. Loved the first three and still happily re-read them. But no... just no to book 4 onwards.
Some series it's a lot harder to accept the truth. And you keep trying (and inevitably failing) until finally you know the characters are better off left to your imagination. That's why I'll never read the final two books in the Sookie Stackhouse series. But thanks Charlaine Harris for the ride.
And some series - well, you just keep buying through the good and the bad. Because when they are good they are stunning. Case in point, Laurell. K. Hamilton's Anita/Vampire slayer series.
So to everyone out there going through a bad break up. I hope you find a new love soon. Trust me when I say, there are plenty more fish in the sea: Darynda Jones, Gail Carriger, Kate Locke, Nalini Singh, Thea Harrison (elder races), Shelly Laurenston/G.A Aiken.
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And just like you said, some are harder to give up than others like Jayne Ann Krentz's latest books. Like them - but don't 'love' them like I used to but because she's such a great writer even though her books have become a little bit boring/and way too similar, don't think I will be 'breaking up' with them any time soon.