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Originally Posted by DNSB
One of my pet peeves is that author who does a trilogy, writes the third book and then comes out with a 4th book 6 months later. My wife is currently reading a series that is up to book 10 of a "trilogy". The sad part is that in book 3, she says the series was pretty much wrapped up. Then book 4 went off in a totally different direction so about the only consistency was the setting and character names. The series seems popular enough that the local library makes it available.
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I've read a couple authors where that kind of worked out. Ringo's Black Tide Rising series, for example. The series was suppose to end with book 3 which was a bit open ended. Ringo decided to write a book 4 to explicitly wrap everything up. It probably wasn't as strong as the first three books.
Books 5 and 6 were basically following what happened to a character we last saw in book 1. It was co-written and wasn't nearly as good, but still I had wondered what happened to that character, so I'm not sorry the books were written. I actually prefer that to the Jordan approach of trying to weave the stories of six different characters together in one long narrative.