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Originally Posted by Katsunami
So essentially, it's the same book over and over again.
I see that problem with a lot of fantasy. It's a difference if short, quite similar (in formula) books are written by many different authors, all focussing on a specific part of a much world (such as with Forgotten Realms), or if there are a lot of VERY LONG similar books written by the same author all taking place in the same world and to some extend, the same places.
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Even worse, the characters that were fun and quirky and a bit off have become more and more dark and depressed and altered by the continually nasty events that they deal with. I credit Butcher for having the cajones to mess with his characters but they have changed in such drastic ways that they are no longer fun to read about.
The changes are realistic but some of the fun of reading the books is gone. So we have the same generic plot line but darker and the characters are now very different.
I love Kim Harrison's The Hallows/Rachel Morgan series. THings have changed, the dangers have grown, the threat is real but the characters are still very similar to their original characters. They have adjusted and altered based on cirumstances but you can see that their basic core is the same. And the books are still fun even as things have become more dangerous.
The Sookie Stackhouse series is the same as Dresden. Great initial premise and start and then the characters change in response to a dark threat, the books follow the same general format, and I stop reading about hald way into the series because they are no longer fun. At least the Dresden series remains well written if darker then I would like. Sookie became rote, dark, and badly written.