tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post8372715735883350359..comments2024-01-30T12:33:15.670+01:00Comments on LesleyW's Book Nook: Multiple Series/Same AuthorLesleyWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059048442986942270noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post-78110236194307944822010-06-05T21:58:56.968+02:002010-06-05T21:58:56.968+02:00Hmmm - I'm not sure we've come to any defi...Hmmm - I'm not sure we've come to any definite conclusions. Other than that it depends on the author, the series and the reader.LesleyWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14059048442986942270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post-10215180453696630812010-06-03T22:06:59.771+02:002010-06-03T22:06:59.771+02:00Good topic!
For a couple of authors mentioned, an...Good topic!<br /><br />For a couple of authors mentioned, and this may sound harsh, but I think they've peaked, jumped the shark, whatever you want to call it - for instance, I loved Anne Bishop's original Black Jewel trilogy and the early prequel (The Invisible Ring, IIRC), thought Tir Alainn was okay, but Ephemera onwards lacked spark. Same with Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books - I adore the Last Herald Mage and Arrows trilogies, like some of the subsequent books, but her recent ones really again lack something special, IMO.<br /><br />Umm... on a different note, Catherine Asaro - I love her SF books, but never got into her fantasy ones. No idea why. I just never gelled with her view of fantasy (the names, especially!), so that was definitely a setting thing.<br /><br />Agree Ilona Andrews and Josh Lanyon rarely put a foot wrong - though hmmm... I wasn't that impressed with Lanyon's spec fic last year (Strange Fortunes?), but very much liked his recent AU Britain novel.Lihttp://bookdaze.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post-17108146499745892792010-06-03T21:55:36.820+02:002010-06-03T21:55:36.820+02:00I don't think my enjoyment of a book/series ha...I don't think my enjoyment of a book/series has anything to do with how many of the author's other works I've liked... though if I like one book by the author, I'm more likely to enjoy another book by the same author because I like the writing style.<br /><br />To use an example already being tossed around: I love (most of) Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series, and I like the YA books as well. I like both of these because I like and sympathize with the narrators. The Otherworld books I like least are the ones where I don't like the narrators as much. And I don't like the Nadia Stafford books. Not because I don't like the writing, but because I don't like Nadia much. I guess it's all personal preference.<br /><br />(Don't enter me in this contest... I already have too many books on my TBR pile for now!)Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415819230337026236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post-86302790099143179142010-06-03T12:05:19.497+02:002010-06-03T12:05:19.497+02:00I feel the same way about a lot of authors. Anne B...I feel the same way about a lot of authors. Anne Bishop being a key to this. While I love love love the Black Jewels I just can't get into anything else she writes. <br /><br />So far the only author I've been able to read just about anything they write is Ilona Andrews and Josh Lanyon. Both are fantastic and draw me into whatever world they are writing. <br /><br />I almost wonder if the Black Jewel's world is just so strong its hard to imagine another world or characters that don't fit with it....Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10606638477160043379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post-1679130805748998982010-06-03T01:41:33.455+02:002010-06-03T01:41:33.455+02:00I love Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series as we...I love Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series as well as her Ephemera books, but I don't like the the Tir Alainn series. I also love Lynn Viehl's Darkyn books but I've never read her Stardoc books and I don't think I ever will.I love the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, but I really can not read her other series , I tried once because I really love her DH series but I didn't like them. I don't think it has anything to do with similar genres, it's just whether I like story and the characters or not .Nastassiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03301788457122493916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post-20668195229437652372010-06-03T00:47:32.431+02:002010-06-03T00:47:32.431+02:00I don't think it has to do with another settin...I don't think it has to do with another setting but more with characters (for me anyway).<br />For example: I love the 'last herald mage' and the 'heralds of Valdemar' trilogies by Mercedes Lackey, but in that same setting there are lots of trilogies and loose books I do not like (because of the lead character), while I do love her Elemental Masters series which is a whole different series and setting.Sullivan McPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15133432350331782496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982413406210688800.post-23712883307592584112010-06-03T00:14:16.387+02:002010-06-03T00:14:16.387+02:00Hmm. I didn't like either the Nadia Stafford b...Hmm. I didn't like either the Nadia Stafford books or Armstrong's YA series... Not sure what it is. :)<br /><br />(And not entering the contest.)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12959009113795804133noreply@blogger.com