Ummmm....
I love a
good series.
Oddly enough, I can't bear one that's rubbish....
I also love a good series that's, ideally, no more than three books - don't mind how long they are. With three, even if it starts from a successful solo book, there's less danger of the author losing track of things !
This, for me, is what happened with George Martin, and why I've given up on him.
Naturally, there will always be exceptions, but the series of three does fit into the classic playwriting "beginning, middle, and an end" guidelines.
And, along with others, I do get bored with inknown writers announcing the first part of what will be a 29 book series......anything less likely to make me want to start Bk 1 .........
I also object to investing time and effort into a series, with a good starting premise, that I then start to lose interest in early on - but kind of feel I ought to give it a chance 'cos it might recover.....
It rarely does.
I think I was spoilt by discovering Tolkein at the tender age of 9/10, well before it became a cult.
I must have, on reflection, looked slightly odd lugging a vast tome with me everywhere, at that age - which lasted a long time, as it wasn't an easy read I remember.......
Nobody'd know now, with me PRS squirelled away
