| Re: Why a series?
In some genres like crime,sf i dont care how long a series are. Specially a book about a PI or a cop is mostly stand alone stories despite being series.
In fantasy i have a big trouble with all these epic fantasy 10+ books. They put me off. The famous fantasy series i have read feel like they are written like a soap. You see clearly they withhold parts of the stories so they can fill the series to 10+ books.
When i finished Tad William's War of the flowers i wondered why there werent many other complete stand alone fantasy books. I mean books that tell a complete fantasy story in one book, not spin off, humor books of famous series. Like you see Fiest and many others do.
Which is why i have tried to read many different subgenres of fantasy and older,different fantasy ala REH,Vance,Eddison to get away from all these huge epic series people recommend all the time... |