Gotta love it when the dream meanings contradict each other XD
I'd say it's important to note the dreamer's feelings in the dream.

I agree it's all really interesting but my brain is too weak to backtrack like that XD

I suppose I'm anything but esoteric
but this topics are still very interesting to read about, because there is so much more about it than what catches the eye.

You don't have to be I'm probably too esoteric for my own good
They're misterious so it's intriguing, even if one doesn't believe all that mumbo jumbo stuff.

I get a feeling that I am going to be passionately hate reading the rest of Hundred Thousand Kingdoms series. I really can't get behind the first person in this. I feel like the author is trying to make her seem witty and smart, but it really isn't getting across to me. She is doing a good job at making the character "disconnected" from the rest of the other characters. But I don't think the first person perspective is working for me. Plus some things in the characters history has it not sitting right with me.

Mysterious intriguing real life stuff is always interesting to read indeed.


@Rubie:
Oh, you are gonna passionately hate reading it but you are gonna read it anyway, right? XD


Btw, has anyone else got the feeling that we book SERIES have become more and more common? Mostly in fantasy settings.
Twenty years ago the most books were standalone novels, you had the odd trilogy here and there. But lately I come across so many series.

I have all of the ebooks so might as well read the entire series. Because I have a habit of buying a whole series before reading the first. Another reason to go get a library membership lmao. Plus there are some parts of it that have caught my interests, but I feel like everything will be resolved with just the first book, so I am kind of curious what the other books will be about.

Yes, and I am mostly drawn to series tbh. I feel like I had a discussion with someone on here? maybe not on here, but online about how series tend to sell better than standalones which is why there are more series now. I don't have a problem with that because that means more world building and knowing more about the characters.

There are some books I read that are now part of a duology. One of them that I can recall was a standalone, but I get a feeling the author was pressured to write a sequel because the book did so well. I loved the first book so I read the sequel. Let's just say I don't remember anything from the sequel.
Another book I loved that I read in high school got a sort-of prequel story? I really hated it especially since I loved the original.
Then there are those I've read that I never knew the first book was a standalone until later because the rest of the books flowed so well after.

I don't mind a series but it should be a reasonable number of volumes. Otherwise it gets bothersome. And boring. They usually run out of ideas, lol.

Yes, I'm seeing a far higher proportion of series as well.

I think because it's easier advertising; you have a guaranteed audience for the later books because people have already read the first ones, and they know what to expect, and so publishers like them.

Except we're also seeing far more self-publishing so that shouldn't limit it, you'd think?

Okay yeah, the more I think about it, the less convinced I am about that reasoning.


But you're right.

Series are definitely more common these days.

Forgot about the self-publishing books. In my experience, the few I've read that were self-published were...not good. Not going to say all self-published books are bad, I must just be bad at picking out books.

I find it odd when a series is completed and then years later it gets another. That makes no sense. I don't know, maybe make it in the same universe and have the characters come around, but focus on a new character so it's different. Who knows. I don't mind books coming from the same fantasy world that an author already has all set up.

I'm not sure what you mean by that last bit.


Like a series that the author hasn't written anything about for years, and then they suddenly write another book in it?