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Originally Posted by seanyyz
I dislike series novels. I feel like I am the only one on the planet who feels this way. I just want every novel to be a new world of its own, with its own characters and without having to remember the details of the novels that have gone before it.
I think mystery novels where only the "investigator" type person stays constant are fine (and even they are entitled to evolve over time.  |
I enjoy mystery series like this. Reading a new book about an old favorite set of characters is like catching up with a group of old friends. I do prefer each book to be basically stand-alone without cliffhangers. Character change/development is fine (say, over the course of a series a regular character gets married and has kids, or makes a change in his/her job). I don't want to read a soap opera. I'm also not interested in reading one long story spread out over a series of books.