The Fear of ‘The Last Book’ In A Series…
Wednesday, April 28, 2010Posted in: Black Dagger Brotherhood, J.R Ward
I received my copy of J.R. Ward’s Lover Mine yesterday, and as of yet, I haven’t started it, even though I’ve been anxiously waiting for it to arrive for months.
The problem is, I’m afraid it’s gonna suck Great Big Hairy Balls.
The last book that I really looked forward to reading this much was Sarah McCarty’s Promises Reveal and that story didn’t have a happy ending. In fact I never even got to the end because the book sucked. A lot. Sigh.
Am I the only person who feels like this about the last book in a series?
Which Last Book are you guys afraid wont live up to the build-up and the hype?
Mireya
April 28
9:29 pm
I am right there with you. Which is in my list (aside from Ward’s?) Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark.
katiebabs
April 28
9:54 pm
Lover Mine was pretty okay, if you speed read through the flashbacks and the lame ass paranormal activity, horny ghost, but I’m really a scarred brother who will pop up in the next book trope.
John likes Xhex’s boobies alot also 😉
katiebabs
April 28
9:55 pm
Lover Mine was pretty okay, if you speed read through the flashbacks and the lame ass paranormal activity, horny ghost, but I’m really a scarred brother who will pop up in the next book trope.
John likes Xhex’s boobies a lot also 😉 and Qhuinn and Blay… nom.
The In Death series maybe loosing steam for me. But I can’t giev up my Roarke.
Lori
April 28
9:56 pm
Nodding. Although I’m not a BDB reader, I frequently fear the last book in a series – they are often such disappointments. And nuff said about Promises Reveal.
katiebabs
April 28
9:56 pm
We in the US have such a better Lover Mine Cover than you do. That green is just… yuck.
AztecLady
April 28
10:10 pm
Hold it right there… that’s the last in the series? Srsly?
BevQB
April 28
10:55 pm
I’m with AZL, I didn’t realize it was the last book! I knew it would probably be the last one for ME because I was just hanging in there for JM’s story, but REALLY? The last one ever?
katiebabs
April 28
10:56 pm
This isn’t the last book. There are 3 more contracted.
Payne and Manny are next
Then for a character undecided
Then Tohr. Tohr’s is supposed to be the last book in the BDB series.
Karen Scott
April 28
11:00 pm
I don’t know for sure, but all the dedications in the book seem to suggest that it is.
katiebabs
April 28
11:07 pm
There are 3 more books contracted.
Payne and Manny are next.
Book 9 is ?
And book 10 is Tohr and possibly the last one, unless Ward gives the Doggen some books.
SamG
April 29
1:14 am
It depends on how long between books. When they are released rather close together (like Christina Dodd’s sometimes are…2 in one year but 3 or 4 months apart and then 2 the next year with the same spacing). When they are that close time-wise it isn’t so bad for me. If I wait for a long time and my anticipation grows, so do my expectations.
Though I am hoping that the Plum books end soon. I was thinking 15 was a nice number, but no. Sorry, but that one feels like she’s getting ready to jump a shark…just choose already and end the series.
AztecLady
April 29
2:55 am
Katiebabs, Lover Mine is book 8 in the series. Manny and Payne, one book? That’s be book 9, and Tohr’s would be 10 then…
If that’s the case, if it’s a finite series with an end in sight, I may even get around to read Lover Avenged and on to the last.
When they all come out in paperback.
And probably used copies… (so that I could delude myself that I’m still on remission)
Alexandra
April 29
4:46 am
For me it’s “The Fear of Series,” because I only got to book three of J.R. Ward and gave up (okay, I didn’t “give up”; I threw it across the room, cleaned it off and returned it to the bookstore). Now I live in fear of any book after Book One.
I need the guarantee of a set number of books in a series, and there are few exceptions.
sallahdog
April 29
12:22 pm
Since these books lost me a book or two ago(the ghost thing just did me in)…
I do worry about beloved series jumping the shark( LKH Anita Blake, cant even read the spoilers or message boards anymore) or becoming so repetitive you might as well be reading the same book over and over (Plum series)…
So far the only series I have been as excited for the next book as I was the last book is the Briggs, Mercy series, the latest book is my favorite so far and I find them stronger each book…
Michelle
April 29
5:31 pm
On the amazon page there is an interview by Ward and she said she would keep writing the series, because new characters keep speaking to her, so I think she has changed her mind about ending the series.
I was nervous reading Megan Whalen Turner’s A Conspiracy of Kings because it followed The King of Attolia which was so over the top fantastic I didn’t see how she could live up to it, but she did and I was left with a happy feeling after reading it. I hate it when you are left with a sense of letdown.
Lester
April 30
5:21 am
I am honestly afraid to read the last of Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series. Shadowfever, the fifth (and she says final) is out in December – but the last two have been a disappointment IMO and there is so much left to wrap up. This book is either going to be massive info dump to end it all, or she is going to skim stuff and twist it around to make her fangirls happy, but leave things hanging.
I am seriously worried.
Haven’t read Lover Mine yet – I will get to it eventually.
Mary
April 30
2:16 pm
I got Lover Mine Wednesday and haven’t read it either for the same reason (that and lack of time). I’ve been really disappointed by the last 3 installments and I’m afraid this one will be the same. I’m still reading though because even then JR’s books still have some very nice moments thrown in and until Lover Unbound came out I worshipped JR and thought she could do no bad.
I’m very hard to shake when it comes to series or fav authors; when I find one I love, I read blissully until I hit a bone, then I start being afraid of what the next book will be but keep reading, and it’s only after several wall-bangers that I give up. Happened with Anita Blake, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Julia Quinn and Janet Evanovich. I might still read one of their new releases but only from the library, when they used to be auto-buys that I pre-ordered as soon as they were made available. It’s a sad thing.
For my current series, except JR I’m happy that there is none I am afraid of reading the next book. Jim Butcher has yet to let me down, Nalini Singh has proven reliable, and others like Moning and Brockmann I like but not enough to worry about what the next book will be like. I do wonder how Moning will tie up the Fever series in a single book thouh, given that she added new questions in every volume and no answers. The info dump seems unattractively likely.
SarahT
May 1
12:28 pm
Karen, I feel exactly the same way about ‘Lover Mine’. My copy arrived a few days ago and it’s still sitting on my TBR shelf. The reviews have been all over the place, as is the norm with J.R. Ward’s books.
I will read it but I’m probably going to wait until the hype dies down to do so.
Mary Winter
May 2
4:23 am
Uh oh, you’re scaring me. I have two final (and yes, that’s my final answer, LOL) books to write this year to wrap up two of my series. EEK!
But as a reader, I totally understand. Then again, I’ve been burned by so many series (BDB being one of them) that I view series with trepidation anymore. Do I want to fall in love with the first book only to have the second one break my heart? And the ending… yeah…because after investing so much time and emotion in these characters, having things happen to them that I wouldn’t do, kind of sours the series for me.