I think it depends on the authors ability to grab hold of ones imagination and keep them engaged in the book. If the book isn’t interesting, then what’s the point in reading the next one, other than to finish what you started?
There’s only one series that I keep up to date with, and that’s the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey. The characters and storylines change. It’s a genre I enjoy. Some of the books are really well written. I have a vivid imagination and experience the books as if I’m living them. All of those allow me to continue reading the series without getting tired of them.
Tanagrabelle on
This sort of thing really depends on the series.
Here’s a hard truth, though. In general, authors need to earn money. Therefore, the books they write tend to be filled with things that their customers have expressed love for. So you get different problems. If the lead character changes over time into a different sort of person, for better or for worse, as the saying goes, and a large chunk of the customers don’t like it, sales will plummet. Who relates to the main character now that they’ve solved their problems, started to win, and has become happy? Or the opposite, who relates when their formerly successful beloved character has all kinds of bad things happen and becomes a mess?
Sherlock Holmes
James Bond
Others like them. The readers demand that the characters be as they expect them to be.
If the writers want to do something different, take the character in a different direction, sales plummet unless it happens that a majority of readers like it.
RahDeeDah on
Depends on the series and when I started reading it. I mean, starting a series that’s ten books in and trying to catch up is way more likely to cause burnout than if I’ve been reading that series, one book at a time, for ten years since it came out. I usually try to break it up with something else in between each book when it’s no longer grabbing my attention like it did at the beginning.
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I think it depends on the authors ability to grab hold of ones imagination and keep them engaged in the book. If the book isn’t interesting, then what’s the point in reading the next one, other than to finish what you started?
There’s only one series that I keep up to date with, and that’s the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey. The characters and storylines change. It’s a genre I enjoy. Some of the books are really well written. I have a vivid imagination and experience the books as if I’m living them. All of those allow me to continue reading the series without getting tired of them.
This sort of thing really depends on the series.
Here’s a hard truth, though. In general, authors need to earn money. Therefore, the books they write tend to be filled with things that their customers have expressed love for. So you get different problems. If the lead character changes over time into a different sort of person, for better or for worse, as the saying goes, and a large chunk of the customers don’t like it, sales will plummet. Who relates to the main character now that they’ve solved their problems, started to win, and has become happy? Or the opposite, who relates when their formerly successful beloved character has all kinds of bad things happen and becomes a mess?
Sherlock Holmes
James Bond
Others like them. The readers demand that the characters be as they expect them to be.
If the writers want to do something different, take the character in a different direction, sales plummet unless it happens that a majority of readers like it.
Depends on the series and when I started reading it. I mean, starting a series that’s ten books in and trying to catch up is way more likely to cause burnout than if I’ve been reading that series, one book at a time, for ten years since it came out. I usually try to break it up with something else in between each book when it’s no longer grabbing my attention like it did at the beginning.