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Originally Posted by JLYates
Karen M. Moning started what I see as a serial although many others see it as a series (her Fever "series"). It leaves you hanging and there is no set timeline as to when the next book will be releasesd. There are to be five books in the "series"; readers have to wait wondering what has happened to so and so, in such and such situation.
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After I read the first of these and realized what she was doing, I stopped buying them. If I'm still around and still interested after she finishes the last one, I may go back and read them all at once.
I do enjoy "series", but I am getting pickier about which ones I'll read.
Serials (even smaller pieces, usually released more often) interest me even less. One, I personally think they tend to cost too much for the "benefit" of reading the pieces early. Two, I'm more of a "gulper" when it comes to reading - I finish a book in a day or two. I just don't want to read in pieces. If it takes me a week to finish a book (because I'm busy at work or just can't "get into it" for whatever reason), I get frustrated. I can't imagine starting something and not being able to finish it for weeks or months on end.