Yeah, I guess I have to face the cold hard facts and admit what my long time readers have likely already deduced; I’m a paranormal romance addict.
Finding myself needing a break from Kresley Cole , these days I’m enjoying Sookie and her gang from Bon Temps.
I like Sookie. She’s a girl I can relate to. Sookie finds out the hard way something I learned long ago; that somehow even the Right Guy can turn out horribly, horribly wrong.
I’m crossing my fingers and hoping not to cry that author Charlaine Harris doesn’t go the way of Diana Gabaldon and take me for a ride on the Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo-Choo Crazy Train.
But for now I’m just relaxing and enjoying Sookie’s twisted little world.
Like all intense infatuations I know that someday my love affair with Sookie will end in either a whimper of indifference (which I think is what happened for me with George R.R. Martin’s The Song of Ice and Fire–NOT a paranormal romance, by the way–after I realized THAT NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN WESTEROS!), or the toss of disgust (Yeah, I’m looking at you Diana Gabaldon) .
The other day a friend commented on Facebook–about my mention that Jeff and I were watching Rescue Me–that she finally gave up on the show because it was all just “too sad and pointless”.
Which led me to start thinking: What causes us to break up with a series?
Do we fall out of love with the characters? (Not always. I still love Jamie and Claire and will likely buy Book 8 no matter what because I want to know what happens to them.) Does the story get stale? Do the characters get old? What happens when our love grows cold?
Have you ever broken up with a series? Which ones and why?
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I used to read every thing Clive Cussler wrote. I loved Dirk Pitt. Then Cussler started writing “with” other people and spun off other series. I got so that I couldn’t keep track of what was what, what I’d read, and frankly, it was taking more time and effort than I thought was worth.
Dianne Mott Davidson’s “Goldie Schultz” novels are fun, but I think it took too long at some point between books and during the wait, I lost interest. Now if I see one, I pick it up, but I don’t actively look for them.
I used to buy every book I wanted. I would pre-order months in advance! I marked days on calendars. Now with money being tighter, I have learned patience and will wait for the library, or a really good sale somewhere. And somehow, I feel that has effected my love. We haven’t broken up, but we are more distant than we were before. There are SO MANY books out there to read that I will never get bored waiting for my favorite authors (and in the process found more series to read that are already available).
There are too many books, aren’t there?
I’m on Book 6 and I still like Sookie. Usually by Book 6 the thrill is starting to wane.
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I love that we have so much that we can talk about…. but girl, we could never watch TV together. I have never watched a single thing you have talked about. Maybe I’ll check it out some time. Maybe not. I really only watch Modern Family, although DH and have been watching Pan Am, but it’s just so-so, not really “into” it.
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I love that I have so many different sorts of friends with all sorts of different interests. And I like that they can like me even though I have questionable taste in literature.
I gave up on Diane Mott Davidson and Diana Galbadon. I could not handle Goldie’s whining any longer. And why do so many sentences end with question marks?????
Gabaldon, well……I just became convicted that they were pretty close to pornography. No holier-than-thou going on – I did read the first six books before I came to that conclusion. But when BOSAA came out, I just didn’t want to read it anymore. Personal thing.
The only series I can think of is Angel. I was a HUGE Buffy fan, and loved Angel at first, but Darla giving birth was the jump the shark point for me.
I will probably read Gabaldon’s Book 8 just because I’m so heavily invested in Jamie and Claire, but if she doesn’t pull this out then I’m done.
One thing about the Stackhouse novels is that there is WAYYYY less sex in them than on the HBO series.
I’ve taken a break from Sookie. I’m waiting for the series to end, and then I’ll decide if want to go back and read them all, or not. The books, that is, I’ve never watched the TV series.
On the subject of paranormal romance…I’ve either taken a break from, or stopped reading, many series. There are very few, and KC’s series is one of the few, that haven’t jumped the shark after a few books.
If you want recommendations, though, I have a few