Adelaide Jensen

Like we don't get that many standalones.

The really big famous fantasy books are often multiple series.

Why is it that for fantasy it's so important?

Is it because we need more of these worlds?

A bit of a, I suppose, like infamous fantasy book thing is that sometimes you get a bit of a second book slump, which we don't necessarily have to like specifically talk about.

That's when that's happened to us.

But how do you think writers can try and avoid this issue?

Because sometimes it feels a little bit like it's bridging to another book and is it about how much conflict we have in there?

Is it about how much world?

How do you think really good series have avoided having second book slump or second book syndrome?

Stick with me.

I'm with you.

I'm with you.

I also think that it's sometimes about and perhaps it's like how the author is so clearly planned out each book individually and not just a series as a whole and going like I need to get from here to here and I need to explain these things in the middle and I guess the way it works out is this stuff all just happens there.

But it's like, no, that book still needs to have just as much conflict and just as many lovable characters and things that bring you into that.

And I was just thinking because I've revisited one of my all-time series that I love, which is Skullduggery Pleasant.

Oh, so good.

Yeah.

And I truly, I started reading them when I was like 14 years old and I'm still here and I'm a few books behind, but then I have the absolute delight of being able to go back and be like, you can just dive into one of those and you're like, God, so many things have happened.

But every book as a standalone really holds up.