tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412975047288761402.post5097330883600794536..comments2023-11-03T13:24:32.313+01:00Comments on Dead Book Darling: BTT: When does a series jump the shark?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452135831003107565noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412975047288761402.post-25579138376815166342010-10-02T01:15:05.759+02:002010-10-02T01:15:05.759+02:00@tori - I'd say you got it just right - if a c...@tori - I'd say you got it just right - if a character isn't going to evolve, they had better be pretty perfect from the start. Actually, it is the reason I kept reading Rachel Vincent's Werecat series - because as much as I didn't like Faythe, I could see she had potential to become a grown up... someday. Cassie Palmer? Not so much.<br /><br />@straylights - Set numbers of books really are the key. I will try to get through book 3 of the Zodiac series, but too much whining about Jo's human "love of her life" and I just want to jump off something tall.<br /><br />@Kay - The Study series had such fab first books that I can't regret reading it - but by GOD, I wish there were a way to scrub Fire Study from my brain. I have been unable to write a review for it because a) the thought of knocking a trilogy I had adored is simply depressing, and b) the thought of having to relive the book practically gives me hives.<br /><br />Okay, maybe that is a slight exaggeration... but not much.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452135831003107565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412975047288761402.post-17776132892193784712010-09-30T19:43:31.278+02:002010-09-30T19:43:31.278+02:00I think you're right : I think series do bette...I think you're right : I think series do better when authors have a clear plan on where it starts and where it ends, than when they just write book after book without a clear idea. It makes sense too, because this way they know when to close storylines and open others, and you can feel this is going in a straight direction.<br />I haven't read the 3rd book of the Study series yet, but you're having me scared a little now!kay - Infinite Shelfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08227285073921171393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412975047288761402.post-44219303649587143422010-09-30T17:12:23.490+02:002010-09-30T17:12:23.490+02:00I totally agree with you about Cassie Palmer and ...I totally agree with you about Cassie Palmer and the Zodiac series. I read 3 books into each series and hated them the whole time... I don't actually know why I forced myself to read so many LoL! Sometimes I really don't understand where all the rave reviews come from. I really liked Tanya Huff's Blood ties series....Only 5 books I think. And I agree on the set number of books. I need an ending!<br /><br />Ok I'm done rambling!Straylightshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05794262662099284310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412975047288761402.post-20516959568919976872010-09-30T15:24:50.110+02:002010-09-30T15:24:50.110+02:00"Jumping the shark"...I like that term. ..."Jumping the shark"...I like that term. Amazing how you've named just about every series I too had a problem with becoming either boring or just out right bad. Laurrell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake books just plain disappointed me. Anita had so much promise in the beginning then became nothing more then a cheap porn star. I never got past the 2nd book of the Cassie Palmer series. Frankly, she just got whinier & whinier. Chance's Midnight series is good though. <br />What does it for me is the heroines and/or heroes never evolve. Or they evolve into something that doesn't even remotely resemble what they started out as.tori aka ggs_closethttp://gigisconsignmentcloset.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com