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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Today's blog is going to be about some
catch up and some things that have been on my mind. You see, I set up
this schedule for book reviews etc... and forgot it was a holiday
week. Then after the holiday was over my computer decided that it
just did not want to work. So now I have a new computer and I have a
ton of books that I have read and would like to put up reviews for.
Since it is almost the end of the week,
I have decided to talk about some of the issues I have been having
with some of the series books that I have been reading and start
fresh with the schedule next week.
I read several series books: Stephanie
Plum series, Black Dagger Brotherhood series, the House of Night
series, etc.... I have come to a conclusion, some series are just
meant to come to an end, and there are some that could go on and on
forever and I would be completely happy. For example the Stephanie
Plum series could go on forever and as long as she is still chasing
strange bond skips and being in the middle between two seriously sexy
guys ( I am a ranger fan myself), continues to get cars blown up and
fumbles majorly every book, I am goober happy with it. It is when a
series runs away from the original concept of the book that I fumble
reading it and often find I do not like the new story. A great
example of this is the House of Night Series. The first few book, I
fell in love with the characters and the story and where it was
going. It is often said that is about a vampire finishing school,
which it is, but more importantly it is about the kids in the story.
(at least for me) These last few books have been more about the grown
ups and less about Zoe and her circle. To me it either should have
ended a few books ago or it should have stayed with the original
concept. It should have stayed about the kids and less about the
teachers and their stories. This veering off original characters,
ruined the books for me. I have the latest in my I-touch, where it
has been since it was released and I have only been able to get about
halfway through with it. I can't get through it because it is way off
track for me.
There are other books that have been
successful going past a trilogy that have succeeded and could go even
further. Some stories are just meant to have stopping points. When I
wrote Mirror Bound I would have loved to write a couple of more books
in the story, but I thought about it and realized that there was no
way to really do that without taking the original story and going a
different direction which I really did not want to do. I have other
stories that could have more than one book in a series but I think
that I would have to limit even those because it is not something
that would be able to go very far without getting off track. The book
I am currently doing a deep edit on is a book that could have several
books after it because I have set it up so that it can have a never
ending cast and setting based off the same concept.
I guess I was just irritated because I
love the House of Night series. It sitting there in my I-touch just
bums me out, I loath finishing it.
Has anyone ever had experiences with
this? Where you fall in love with a series in the beginning and find
that it changes so much in the latter books that you want to throw it
instead of reading it?
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2 comments:
I like series books, but I think that each should come to a definite close. Sort of like Star Trek does at the end of each episode.
I completely agree Chris at some point a series should end. To me it doesn't matter if it a set amount of books or a the timeline that the character is following etc... but it should at some point end.