Throughout my lifetime I’ve mostly indulged in standalone books (although the same can’t be the same with webcomics or tv series). So I’m like a month into my first year of university and in the mean time I’ve been reading various books that were stock piled in my room while commuting. There was a book I’ve finished that was the first part out of six for a fantasy series called Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell and I very much did enjoy it. Upon searching up the other books of the series I’ve noticed there was a spinoff series (or a prequel if you prefer) featuring the backstory of a major supporting character whom I absolutely loved in many aspects.
I’m certain that said character will be reoccurring throughout the others parts and invest in them, but currently I’m more interested in their backstory that consisted of three different parts. Because of this I want to hear other’s opinion on when to read the spinoff parts of a series.
Do you guys like:
1. reading the entirety of the main series before checking out the spinoffs/side stories?
2. to partially read the main series and move onto the spinoffs/side stories before returning back?
3. reading them by release date?
4. reading them in a chronological timeline?
5. to read whatever you feel like?
Of course there could be other ways you can approach this, those questions are only what I’m able to conjure up.
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by Freshbakas
5 Comments
If the spin off is going to have some spoilers for a later book in the series then I finish the series first.
But usually I’m not that interested in a spin off.
Series are like the main meals for me with spin offs being treats on the side.
I always do #3, it never spoiled a book further down the series and I am never lost/confused. Following when the author releases the books just make the more sense to me.
The obvious answer is 3. Usually there is some thought put into when a book get’s released and you won’t get spoiled by reading a spin-off that was intended to be read at a certain point.
Generally 1 or 3.
3 or 5