Sequel attack

[princessfics]

I was overwhelmed by sequels at the bookstore the other day.  Thankfully some series I've decided I'm no longer reading so I could ignore them...but still, the remaining list makes my head begin to spin and my wallet feel light.

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[princessfics]

I think house of night might have passed even pentagon. :-P She's such a slut.

Fire is technically not a sequel, but I included it. It's a companion. The jacket says you don't have to have read graceling to understand it.

[princessfics]

And let's not forget that Heath from the beginning has been portrayed as a loser she wanted to break up with...so...it's crazy to think that readers would care at all about him. Until I gave up I just kept going..what is he still doing here?!? Go away! :P

The authors are weird. It's a shame that it's so popular when there are many other series that have better characters, writing and plots.

[birlan]

Its like movies--its easier to market a franchise or a brand or a sequel than something new and different--so turning every novel into a series makes it much easier for the writer to make a sale. But then the exigencies of writing a series often wreck the series--assumptions that trap the story line, solutions from earlier books that have to be explained as to why they don't work, and plot motifs that are repeated so often that the love triangle unintentionally becomes casual promiscuity. I do have sympathy for the authors however who are usually trying to write books that sell for pretty good reasons(fondness for having food and shelter for themselves and loved ones )

[birlan]

there is also a belief among some publishers that there is a certain maximum size for books to sell. Rather than have a book be too big, they would prefer to break it into parts. There was an english author, Mary Gentile, who had that happen with a novel several years ago. Actually, there was another English author that happened to before--Tolkein and Lord of the Rings.

So if your story gets too long, they may ask you to break it up....

[princessfics]

I think breaking it up is fine...or even planning from the beginning to have a series is fine...just as long as it all makes sense in the end. You have to be able to work out all of the details that need to work together through each book so that things don't contradict, like you mentioned earlier.

I would be a mess trying to create a series after the fact. I can't even get through a stand alone story without having to go back and edit things to make them consistent with where the story decided to go...it would be crazy to try to make something in book three work with book one if book one was already published before you'd ever thought about book three.

it confuses me just thinking about it, lol. :)

[hmrpotter]

I just finished reading the Vampire Diaries series (well, the first 4 books anyway), and while it's not the best, it's not the worst, either. I like the series as a whole better than Breaking Dawn, but I think that the writer took the "happily ever after" road at the very end, and it left me confused as to how some things happened.

I know that she wrote a 5th book after the Twilight series re-awakened the vampire genre, but I've been told by several people that it is pure crap, and that she did a disservice to the original series. I know that she is releasing book 6 in June 2010, and now I'm just curious to know how the story continues, especially since I've been warned.

I don't know, I'm one of those readers who love serial novels; I always want to follow through til the end, no matter if it's good or bad.

[princessfics]

I want to finish vampire diaries...but I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. The ending of the second book made no sense to me in the world she created, and it just kind of lost me. I'll probably finish it eventually since I've already bought the second volume.

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