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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yeah, well, I was first and mightily burned (and infamously, I was far from the only one!) by Melanie Rawn, during Ruins of Ambrai. She'd had two very successful fantasy series before that, all set in the same world/universe and she popped along with Ambrai, did two books, stopped book two on something:
SPOILER, SPOILER!
and then, BAM the damn book ended and that was that. The promised third book never appeared, or if it did, it was seriously like 25 years later and I think I read it's dreck.
That was the beginning of the end for me with cliffhangers. I've been Rawn-burned.
By cliffhangers, I don't mean, longer-term unresolved story arcs, like..."will Harry Dresden get together with whats-er-name," or the like. I mean, failing to end a book with something that actually resolved the current plot elements of the current book. (Does Harry catch the murderer, or the like.)
I don't have a problem with longer story arcs. But I do resent feeling like my goose is being plucked, to mix my metaphors, for the almighty $2.99 or what-have-you.
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The last book in the Exiles series by Rawn is not in print and it's not available as an eBook.