Series Quitter
There’s not
enough time in a lifetime for all the books we want to read, if you’ll allow
the cliché. Is it better then to delve into as many worlds as possible or see a
specific few to the end? I quit on quite a few series.
I enjoyed
these books. Given unlimited time and money, I would finish them, but I
prioritize reading new stories rather than continuing on from others, unless I
find the series particularly captivating.
Quitting can, on certain occasions, be a good thing.
Is this one of those times though?
Here are some
of the series I liked but will not be finishing any time soon:
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra
Clare
The Infernal Devices by Cassandra
Clare
Penryn and the End of Days by Susan
Ee
Legend by Marie Lu
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini
Taylor
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
The Devil’s by Donna Hosie
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
Shattered Sea by Joe Abercrombie
The Black Jewels by Anne Bishop
Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris
D’Lacey
Between by April Genevieve Tucholke
There are
other series I’ve started but have no plan to finish, this time due to a lack
of interest, such as Outlander, House of Night, Birthmarked, and anything by James Patterson. Then, there are the
more neutral books that I don’t care enough to finish, such as Beautiful Creatures, Miss Peregrin’s Home for Peculiar Children,
and Snow Like Ashes. I don’t feel any
particular guilt about abandoning these series.
Is it bad to
neglect enjoyable series? After all, you aren’t getting the entire story. If
you imagine that the entire tale is one book, I am closing the story one-third
or even one-sixth of the way through. I have finished some series—Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Series of
Unfortunate Events, Percy Jackson,
Inheritance Cycle, and The Dark Tower, Chronicles of Narnia of note,
and I plan to finish Game of Thrones.
Most of those series, however, I finished when I was younger, years before I
decided on a wider reading net.
Should I
continue these series? Should I bother?
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