EVERY BOOK SERIES I COMPLETED LAST YEAR

[@marlabakes]

I'm impressed with how many series you've managed to finish! According to my series tracker spreadsheet, I only finished 4 but to be fair, I read 12 or 13 Discworld books and am continuing one a month until I finish. I'm at 10 left to go! Then my series tracker should move a little faster after hahaha

[@paperback_cat]

Longer series do make it take longer to finish series off! But you could count Discworld as separate sub-series to up your numbers :P

[@VoyagesIntoImagination]

I'm currently focusing on finishing up series (some started many years ago, which I needed to restart). So this seems like really great progress in a year to me.

[@paperback_cat]

I started trying to get my series under control a few years back, it's taken me a while but now it's nice to be able to finish series not that long after starting them (as long as the author has finished writing them!) so I think it was worth the effort :) good luck on finishing up some of yours!

[@dragonrambles]

I read Jaran and mostly enjoyed it. But didn’t want to continue after book one. I had read what direction the story took and it wasn’t one that I was at all interested in. Do you feel like you have to complete a series once you have started it? What would be sufficient reason for you to mark a series as DNF? Last year I decided to not continue on to book three of Broken Earth after barely tolerating book two (and not finding book one clever - there were no “reveals” for me, they’d been signposted at the beginning). I initially thought I might finish book three as it was a buddy read but the more time that passed after finishing book 2, the less I cared. The trilogy is now in my pile of books to take to Arty Bees.

[@paperback_cat]

I'm getting better at dnfing series when they're not living up to my expectations, but it's something I need more practice in! I think I'm always too hopeful that if I loved the first book, then the later books will return to that level. I want to run some stats at some point about how often series live up to their first books for me... I think if you didn't like the second book of the Broken Earth trilogy then you're right to predict you won't appreciate the last book either. I also could've/should've stopped with the Jaran series too but after 20+ years of curiousity about the series, I couldn't let it go :P

[@dragonrambles]

@@paperback_cat I've finished a series out of curiosity too. Sometimes it pays off, but unfortunately too often it doesn't