This particular topic has been bugging me for months, and not just because I review. While my review list is five books a month, I read voraciously on top of that...especially when I'm stressed and want to hide from the world. Me and curling up in the proverbial closet sometimes come close to being reality when things get tough. Since the start of the school year, it's been insanely difficult...all due to finances (of course) and helplessness, because I can't control when someone is going to hire my husband (who's been unemployed since May).
I've probably read...on average...5-10 books a week. Some are long. Some are short. The only ones I refuse to read are YA and NA; all five of my children fall into those two categories, I have enough teenage angst and college age growing-into-functional-adults in my real life, I have no desire to read about it.
Because of that amount of reading, and the fact that reviews, editing and writing books myself are also a thing, I'm pretty qualified to talk about this particular pet peeve authors do.
Remember when we read books that wrapped up and had happy endings? When the words THE END actually meant it was over. Done. Finished. Ahhh, the good old days. Even if it was a series, like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, or even C.S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles...each book had a beginning, middle and end. Period. Characters continued throughout the stories, sometimes aging, sometimes not, but every book guaranteed not only that it would end, but end happy. And the sheer number of standalones, like nearly every Michael Crichton book ever, with every book ending the story by the hero triumphing and the bad guys losing.
I've probably read...on average...5-10 books a week. Some are long. Some are short. The only ones I refuse to read are YA and NA; all five of my children fall into those two categories, I have enough teenage angst and college age growing-into-functional-adults in my real life, I have no desire to read about it.
Because of that amount of reading, and the fact that reviews, editing and writing books myself are also a thing, I'm pretty qualified to talk about this particular pet peeve authors do.
Remember when we read books that wrapped up and had happy endings? When the words THE END actually meant it was over. Done. Finished. Ahhh, the good old days. Even if it was a series, like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, or even C.S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles...each book had a beginning, middle and end. Period. Characters continued throughout the stories, sometimes aging, sometimes not, but every book guaranteed not only that it would end, but end happy. And the sheer number of standalones, like nearly every Michael Crichton book ever, with every book ending the story by the hero triumphing and the bad guys losing.