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Originally Posted by Sirtel
It's practically impossible for me to predict before reading whether I will like an author/series or not.
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Well I have been lucky maybe, though I do at least read a small portion of what a new author writes in that first book. Just open to some page at random, midway through the book, and get a sense of their writing style.
That and the title, artwork and blurb, are usually enough for me to get a good gauge ... at least as far as an acceptable read goes. Of course that was with physical books, and not possible with many or most ebooks ... unless you are happy with what's at the start, that Amazon for instance usually shows. Beginnings can be slow though, even tedious at times, especially in a first novel, so I prefer later in the book, once the author is in their zone and their writing is flowing much better.
So strictly speaking, unlike I said earlier, I do read a few words ... but only in the first book. Of course, I don't recall those few paragraphs for very long.