It would depend on how good the earlier books were and how much of a role the characters play in my enjoyment of the series. If I like the characters and want to find out how they develop in subsequent books I'm more likely to carry on with the series even if the standard of the stories has dropped. If it was the storylines that drew me in initially and I didn't care much for the characters I'd just stop reading if the stories had dropped off in quality.
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