Series burnout when there are more books than make sense
Rant? Discussion? Both? I am currently on book 5 of the Tairen Soul series. It’s a great story. Lovely prose. Very good world building. Lush descriptiveness, which I quite enjoy. Characters that I’m invested in, many I want to see climb and achieve greatness and joy, others I hope are smote unto the fiery pits of hell.
But. My god. I am more and more convinced that any 4+ book continuous series (with only one exception that comes to mind) could have been made much better by condensing it into a trilogy. I really like this story. I’m also really over it at this point and it’s tainting the experience of the grand finale.
If Tolkien can achieve such utter magnificence in a trilogy, others can certainly cut out the inconsequential fluff to get their series down to three books, too. Enough with the 5, 6, 7+ continuous series when it’s not warranted. I really don’t want to dnf on the fifth and final book, but I also kinda want to.
Who would like to join me in raising fists and yelling at the sky?