[haertig]

I don't mind novels in a series - where each book is mostly standalone with its own beginning and ending. Characters overlap with other books in the series, and occasional mentions of story lines from other books in the series.

But what I hate, are books in so-called "series" where one book just ends with a ton of unresolved stuff and then you are expected to buy the next book to find out what happens. The cliffhanger right at the end.

Are there any online resources that help identify such books? I'd like to avoid them. They seem much more prevalent on Amazon (Kindle Unlimited, KOLL, etc.), and from newer authors. And it is these Amazon newer authors that I am often reading now - both for exposure to new stuff, and cost savings over the high priced large publisher books. But some of these new authors have adopted a profit model that keeps dragging you along purchasing one book after another just to find out what happens and should have been resolved in the current book.