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Originally Posted by Karellen
I recently completed the 12 novels in the Saga of Seven Suns/Saga of Shadows series, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
The story follows numerous characters (20+), and each character is treated to short chapters, each chapter in the novel jumping between the characters.
Not only are details between books repeated over and over, each chapter contains a "catchup" of events from the previous chapters for that character. Even though we just read about that character 2 chapters ago (about 5 minutes ago) easily one quarter to one half of the chapter is devoted to the "previously in xxxx character".
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I can understand having some catchup info at the beginning of each new book, but each chapter? The author must think readers have a really short attention span!