Do you ever get author anxiety or readers anxiety? What would that be AXT or RNX, well I don’t know, its not really as far as I know a diagnose officially so don’t put too much into it.
The thing is, when I read multiple books by the same author that I really really liked I sometimes can’t get my self to read the next book. It’s usually not in the same series because that one is easy, you really just need to know how the story ends. No its when you start a totally new book that hasn’t anything to do with the others. I get scared that it might not bee as good as the last, that I might not even like it, waste my time on it, those kind of feelings.
I know it irrational, of cause it is, but I really can’t help it. I keep postponing the book and usually I kick my butt because I waited. Luckily for me it doesn’t happen that often, but still it happens and I hate it.
I guess that some authors feel the same sometimes, if they really had a hit. Will we, the readers like it. I don’t really know for sure how they feel, it’s just a wild guess.
Ok, I’ll admit that the title is a bit or totally misleading. But this post is mainly about me reading series. I of cause don’t know how you do it, you tell me?
Nothing is set in stone for me when it comes to reading series, sometimes I do this and sometimes I do that. But I do tend to have a few habits.
Depending on how long the series I’ll reread the whole thing again before reading the new book.
That can be a long process. Again it not solid but I would say that if the series is five books or more I won’t reread the all the books again. BUT, if it’s really good and I have it on my ‘To read again list’ I might just read all the books once again up til the new one but I don’t tend to do that whit longer series, I’ll read the new book and then revisit the whole thing again some other time when I feel like it. I do have a few favourite books that I’ve read multiple times, but I don’t do that much because there are so many books to be read. I’ve even had books in a serie where I only read one books out of the all, because that books was better than the other or I liked the story so much. But even then I makes sense because you know the story from the start. Now I know you might find it weird that I just read the new book, I do know the story. I think the reason for that is that I read so many books that I sometimes can’t remember every little detail or as I wrote, I just like it too much not to reread it.
Some authors will release books in a series as a stand alone, and all that is good, however I mostly fell like I’m missing out on something because they mention people or events that happened in a previous book, it may not be crucial to the story or might not even mean something yet you don’t know who the people are and how they fit in so I don’t like that. I’m not going to say I can’t look past it, it just doesn’t sit well with me.
I have read one series I think where the books were in a random oder, no #1 or #2 or whatever. It was kind of confusing and I never really understood why the author didn’t organise the books in a particular order as to be read it would have made sense and no I’m not going to tell you which series, because it’s irrelevant to this post. Maybe I have book OCD or something, I like them to be in order.
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