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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7059931" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>(Below is just sharing my personal experience as well - you know what's right for you and I'm not attempting to say otherwise.)</p><p></p><p>Trilogies or other set length series which either are exactly as you say, or the last book is the best as everything comes together. Series on the other hand can get better as the world matures and the author gets better handle on the character's voice, or again as you said peter off in sequel-itis written just to have another book in the series. Or both - next couple of books after the first get better, but then it can't keep the steam going. </p><p></p><p>One of my favorite series (Jim Butcher's Dresden Files) is like this - the first book is the weakest - it's eh, good. They get better and by book 3 it's really popping. But now, however many books in, we've reached crescendos of escalation and the more recent books aren't drawing me in like the earlier ones.</p><p></p><p>I like staying in a world and with characters I like, so I enjoy sequels. Which is why the change in tone for the Ender's Game ones was so jarring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7059931, member: 20564"] (Below is just sharing my personal experience as well - you know what's right for you and I'm not attempting to say otherwise.) Trilogies or other set length series which either are exactly as you say, or the last book is the best as everything comes together. Series on the other hand can get better as the world matures and the author gets better handle on the character's voice, or again as you said peter off in sequel-itis written just to have another book in the series. Or both - next couple of books after the first get better, but then it can't keep the steam going. One of my favorite series (Jim Butcher's Dresden Files) is like this - the first book is the weakest - it's eh, good. They get better and by book 3 it's really popping. But now, however many books in, we've reached crescendos of escalation and the more recent books aren't drawing me in like the earlier ones. I like staying in a world and with characters I like, so I enjoy sequels. Which is why the change in tone for the Ender's Game ones was so jarring. [/QUOTE]
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