Sometimes you can (and should) stop at just 'one'

[KanoasDestiny]

I am reading a trilogy right now (The Wolves of Mercy Falls), and I liked the first book a lot. I'm 30 pages into the second one right now and I'm just not feeling it.

I find myself stalling, trying to get sidetracked with other things, so that I don't have to read through this book. It's not that it is bad...I just like how the first one ended and have heard which direction the next two books take...and I'm not happy about it.

It kind of reminds me of Fifty Shades of Grey. The first book was good. But the second and third ones kind of made the characters more pathetic and unlikeable. It should have been a stand-alone book, not a series.

What series have you read, that you think should have stopped after the first book?

 

[Riverrose28]

Actually I did stop after one! It was Fifty Shades of Grey! I bought the first one because everyone was raving about it. I hated it, seems like it was written for teenagers. I usally hang on to my first editions, not this one, I gave it away, willingly, and didn't bother buying the other two. Hope they don't delete this, nothing against sex, heck I've been married since forever, can't stay married and not do you know what and make it interesting, but this was more of a control, power play type of book, and I found myself feeling sorry for poor Anna as she was so confused. Hated the story, really was there one?

 

[KanoasDestiny]

It's strange how peoples tastes can differ so greatly, isn't it? I had read rave reviews for the Wolf series I'm reading too. :/

 

[ohmt]

Well, I have been pretty open about my dislike for the Fifty Shades of Grey books, so that one for me as well. It was just poorly written and the storyline greatly lacked, imo. I was all for the naughty scenes, but they were the same over and over again. Eventually it got to the point that i'd skip them.

 

[KanoasDestiny]

I completely agree with you Ohmt.

 

[Kim~Crayonboxminiatures]

I liked the series The Wolves of Mercy Falls.

But I also had time between when I listened to the first audio book and when the second & third books came out & were available at the library. I do think the first and the last were my favorites, but I can't remember exactly what happened in each book.

I read a little of Fifty Shades on Amazon, it was horrible! I cannot stand mistakes in books (mistakes in spelling, punctuation, etc), the one page I read had 2-3 mistakes! I can understand one or two mistakes in a whole book, but really on one page?? And then I found it it was Twilight fan fiction....definitely not for me!

 

[KanoasDestiny]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the last (Wolves) book now. It did end up getting better as I read through more of the second one, and I like the last one so far. I do think the first one could have been a good stand-alone book, but at least the characters are really likeable.

 

[KanoasDestiny]

Ok, I finished The Wolves of Mercy Falls last night. It ended up being pretty good, except for the ending. It left me with TONS of unanswered questions - I hate that! To me, it felt like she met her word qouta and ended the story suddenly.

 

[Jill]

MaryJanice Davidson has a series about Betsy, the vampire queen. I loved the first 8 or 9, but then the next one was not very good, and the one after that was even worse, so there I quit. The first one that wasn't good had to do with time travel, which wasn't a part of any of the other books and was a little "too much", but then when the next one after that one was also not just about time travel, but for real, full, long passages from other books, I quit the series. When I first started reading it, an old friend of mine said she'd liked the series, but the author should have ended it a few books before the most recent. At the time, I thought I couldn't imagine that would be the case but sure enough... she was right IMO.