Okay, so today is part rant, part review. As we know, I was reading Shiver. I have now begun the sequel, Linger which is good, too. I'm only a few chapters in, but the author has already incorporated some new characters and the plot line is just different enough to not annoy me.
Shiver concluded well. I liked the wrap up the author gave it and the fact that it could have been (should have been?) a book standing on it's own because it didn't give any clues into what the sequel would be about.
Now for the rant...ever since the movie Lord of the Rings came out, everyone has been a little trilogy-happy, don't we think? Right around that time, Pirates of the Caribbean came out and the Spider Man franchise was plugging along, and myriad of other books and movies were jumping blindly onto the bandwagon. Unfortunately for them, many of the 2nd and 3rd movies in these trilogies missed the bandwagon and landed in the mud...covered in shit and cliches.
I don't envy anyone trying to write a good sequel or threequel (yes, this is a made-up word for today's purposes)...it's hard. And I love watching/reading well-written series, but we have to come to a point where we put our foots down. At some point, I'd like a story to just be over. When do we come to the point where it's okay to say, "Yes, I DO still know what you did last summer...but I just don't CARE."
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