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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Maybe I'm just being unreasonable, but it bothers me when an omnibus ends on a cliffhanger.
Individual books in a series? Okay, I can tolerate it (though a cliffhanger in the first book is usually enough to put me off). But I kind of expect an omnibus to at least complete an arc.
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I'll go a bit further: A Trilogy is NOT A SUBSTITUTE for an ending! So many books I've found recently that have nothing resolved by the end of each "book" in the series. Sometimes they're fun to read anyway, but ... (at least the standard rules of romance require some kind of romantic resolution.)
I remember talking to a then-popular SF author, who recommended beginning writers try to write short stories, as a way of making themselves learn to write endings.