30 days of books: Day one

Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)

The first thing that pops into my head is for the latter.  Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series has devolved into…what?  I don’t even know any more.  There’s a lot of aspects of the world of the books that I still enjoy as brain candy, but I honestly think that there’s a limit to how powerful you can make your protagonist before it all starts getting silly.  Not to mention how many weird sexual situations you can force her into

I actually think that a lot of urban fantasy series are heading into this territory.  It becomes all about relationships and love triangles and heroines or heroes who keep on accumulating powers without too much actual character development.  There’s only so much I can read about the same character moaning about the same damn thing before I get fed up.

Series that I wish had gone on longer.  This is actually tougher.  I’d love to say Charles de Lint’s Newford books (even though I think he’s still writing in the series sometimes), but I think that he’s done as much as he can with the setting and characters without dragging it all painfully out.

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Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

30 days of books: Day one

Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)

The first thing that pops into my head is for the latter.  Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series has devolved into…what?  I don’t even know any more.  There’s a lot of aspects of the world of the books that I still enjoy as brain candy, but I honestly think that there’s a limit to how powerful you can make your protagonist before it all starts getting silly.  Not to mention how many weird sexual situations you can force her into

I actually think that a lot of urban fantasy series are heading into this territory.  It becomes all about relationships and love triangles and heroines or heroes who keep on accumulating powers without too much actual character development.  There’s only so much I can read about the same character moaning about the same damn thing before I get fed up.

Series that I wish had gone on longer.  This is actually tougher.  I’d love to say Charles de Lint’s Newford books (even though I think he’s still writing in the series sometimes), but I think that he’s done as much as he can with the setting and characters without dragging it all painfully out.

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.