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Attention to detail or big picture reader?
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I'm both. Cause if a story line is going along a certain track that I'm REALLLLY interested in, I want to know how all parties in the following books connect so it makes sense. But if it's someone/a story line I don't particularly care for I just want to make sure I know if they have at least been mentioned somewhere in passing before. Totally new characters that leap into things kind of annoy me a bit unless they are a love interest in a novella. But a full on book, they just make me leery cause I don't know what they will contribute is going to be something I agree with or not. And am I going to be wasting my time in reading a story with them in there or not, if I'm not emotionally invested or familiar with them.Actually kind of why I'm a bit leery about books after Hauk's book in the League series cause I feel like I've read about the characters I was most interested in so far. Once it taps into older brothers, uncle's nephews, twice removed or something, I'm not sure I really care as much. But we'll see. It is an SK book after all and who turns those down for long? ;)
Yes I mean did you like Born of Defiance? I mean dang girl to be honest I thought it might be boring because he was the son, and not one of the main characters...but NEVER underestimate Sherrilyn. I loved that book.
Still haven't read it yet to be honest. The debate is still on for me actually lol. But I might, shall see how my schedule of reads is looking.
Kat♐♐Fan of Styxx,Sav,Ash, Jaden♐♐ wrote: "Yes I mean did you like Born of Defiance? I mean dang girl to be honest I thought it might be boring because he was the son, and not one of the main characters...but NEVER underestimate Sherrilyn...."It wasn't my favorite so I did get bored with all the myriad deets but as you say, it WAS an SK book - which is still better by far than most!
For DH series & its kids I am mostly a big-picture reader however lately I am feeling like I'm missing something because of all the millions and millions of gods, goddesses and so forth that are being mentioned now, so I am trying to pay more attention. Altho if I am honest, I am slowing down my reading to pay more attention to the fabulous SK quotes that Charlotte has got me addicted to!
Exactly. A good info dump on characters you care about is great. For those you aren't feeling too much is a bit hit the snooze button. But still SK has her way.That is why I appreciate our group. To help us out with those characters and peeps we forget along the way and those that seem to pop up out of thin air.
I read the first 2 books of League and that is all thus far.
Nice, was it your first read of them Alicia or just part of the re-read? Sorry if you had said you started with them in your introduction. So many of us have come to SK in so many ways my brain tends to forget who started with which series.
I'm a very OCD kinda person when it comes to what I'm reading. I need to know everything about every character and about every situation. The more details I know the happier I am
Adam wrote: "I'm a very OCD kinda person when it comes to what I'm reading. I need to know everything about every character and about every situation. The more details I know the happier I am"Me too! I feel that it makes the story more alive and enjoyable:)
Looks like I'm in good company, then, as I too am one of those people who go for details.Yep, I am one of those people who read the ending of a book early on, so that I can slow down and really pay attention to the story. I am also one of those people who constantly flip pages back and forth, making sure that I've got the details right.
(Yes, and when I was younger, my mother used to complain that I was one of those people who couldn't "see the forest for the trees". XD)
Charlotte wrote: "Looks like I'm in good company, then, as I too am one of those people who go for details.Yep, I am one of those people who read the ending of a book early on, so that I can slow down and really p..."
A woman after my own heart:p
Charlotte wrote: "Looks like I'm in good company, then, as I too am one of those people who go for details.Yep, I am one of those people who read the ending of a book early on, so that I can slow down and really p..."
This is why Charlotte is our official DH Quotes transcriber!!!
I was not sure if this is the reight place for my question. I'm wondering if any of you keep notes of characters or events as you read a series. Often info in a book will become important in a future book.
If you do, how do you organize your notes?
thanks
I don't because there are goodreads threads were we can discuss theories. I prefer to just go down rabbit holes into theories, rather than doing meticulous step by step detective work; as I go through each page.
Megan wrote: "I was not sure if this is the reight place for my question. I'm wondering if any of you keep notes of characters or events as you read a series. Often info in a book will become important in a fu..."
Hey Megan,
I'm not a note taker but given how some of the series are crossing over these days and our family tree project. I think maybe posting your question over here might yield you some answers:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
thatk you for the suggestion. I went and posted my question in the other section
Anytime Megan. Hopefully Myst will pop in and can share some ideas with ya as well.
If new family members are introduced, you need to stop to think about the connection. Because you know how Sherrilyn is. Someone's brother is related to someones cousin, who is someones grandmother, who happens to be the aunt of someone else.
Or are you a more big picture reader like me: Right new familiar member. Don't really care about the fine details of who they are related to, and how they fit into the family tree, just want to move on with the story.
When Sherrilyn Kenyon introduces a lot of royal families, and a lot of "nobles" and the political and power statuses of each person for her "League" Series.
And she's like "This is the third noble family, of the history of the blah blah, who married blah blah, blah, and caused this political upheaval which connects this chars story line, which connects to this other chars storyline
And for her Dark Hunter series there are statuses of power, and somehow one group affects this, which affects that, which affects double that.
Do you have to sit there to make sense of it all?
Or are you like me?: Because instead of worrying about all the intricacies, I tend to think: Right shit has gone down. Yep you're royal. Yep you're important (idc about what rank you are out of 10. I just know you are important). I don't really care about your place in the family tree, or the intricacies of the power and politics. You're powerful, your existence stirred up some shit, lets get on with the reading."
So what kind of reader are you: Attention to detail (not knowing the intricacies of how plots are connected aggravate you, not knowing how relationships are connected irritates you)
Or a big picture reader, where you are more like:
This person is important because of a lot of marriages, arrangement, genetics lines, and other political blah blahs that you don't really care about make this person important.
This person has caused a lot of shit, simply by existing which has caused murdering's in the Sk's world, and people trying to overthrow each other for power, and some random dude comes along that "changes everything" like always or whatever. But you could care less about all the different books in the series connecting all the points together:
All you care about is "The Now" Right "Now" shit is going down.