Or are more big list authors caring less and less about their readers and only writing what they want? Or is it they've just written the same characters for so long they can't come up with anything fresh?
I know at least a couple of authors who outright tell fans to bugger off if they don't like the direction their books are going (LKH and now Christine Feehan). Honestly, I used to love so many authors who wrote series, and yet their last few books have made me scratch my head and ask, "Why did I like this author again?"
There are some series that I will still read, Nora Roberts' J.D. Robb books for one. And I still enjoy the Kelley Flynn knitting mysteries. Mercedes Lackey is now revisiting Valdemar and I am thrilled, though many will say the last book was weak. I enjoyed it.
But LKH has disappointed for the last several books, CF is hit and miss, I stopped reading Sherrilyn Kenyon several books ago when she started focusing less on the Dark Hunters and more on the shifters.
I don't know, maybe I am just in a slump again, 'cause not a lot is keeping my attention lately. And what books have managed to do so lately have been totally random grabs at the library. I don't always (often?) seem to find another book by the same author that I like again. *Sigh*
Winter is coming, I guess it's time to pick up my knitting again and leave the books for a bit ;)
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