2010-07-21

2010-07-21 10:07 pm

Book meme! Day 1

I'm really happy that [livejournal.com profile] alg came up with this!

BOOK MEME Day 01 - A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)

I wish there were more sequels to The Silent Tower, The Silicon Mage, and Dog Wizard by Barbara Hambly.  I really like Antryg and Joanna as main characters and enjoyed the world-building, the magical ethics, and the romance.  I thought the secondary characters had really enjoyable, complex reasons for their actions.
I'm not sure I'd want more direct sequels - what I'd really want is more books set in that world and era (I liked Stranger at the Wedding, but  though it's the same world it's a different era). Following different people, perhaps?  And we could have Joanna or Antryg cross the narrative occasionally.

Is it wishing a series would end already if you wished it had gone differently after a certain point?  I still love the Young Wizards books (though I haven't read the most recent one yet) but I wish Kit and Nita would finish puberty already.  I think my problem is that I started reading the books as a pre-pubescent kid and it's now about 20 years later and Kit and Nita are younger than me now instead of older.  I wanted them to age out of middle-grade and into an older YA feel.  

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