Isabelle Werro

I think a sequel, like the thing you want out of it is to build on the first book and you want it to kind of expand the world.

You don't kind of want to repeat.

So often, especially, I mean, if you're thinking about sort of a romance, if the characters are more or less together by the end of the first book, where's the tension in the second book?

And like a way to create that is often to separate them or to introduce new characters or kind of explore new relationships

facets of the world to get that tension and that compulsion to finish the book in there.

So I think that would be my answer, yeah.

Yeah, I think I think it's a little bit of what we were saying before.

I think when you expand the world or create some tension in another way.

So, again, whether it's if you're talking about a relationship, whether you add an obstacle that feels justified, that's not kind of you can, you know, sometimes when there's a I guess it's more in TV series when a couple's been together for a long time and they kind of throw conflict in, but it just feels contrived.

I think something like in fantasy where the love interest is separated and

um that helps or exploring a new area of the world introducing a new storyline like Sarah J Maas I think did this with um Throne of Glass like you kind of go from just having Zelena's point of view to then suddenly having um you know Manon and you get this whole world of the witches and across the other side of the continent um and then the other thing that I thought of actually which is thinking back to one of the sequels that I first remember really loving because I think I used to find that like the second book didn't always live up to the first one um

And the one that I can remember that avoided this was Dystopia and it was Catching Fire because I think that one captured the magic of the first book but then built on it and made the stakes even higher.

So I think it really did something clever where, you know, they're going back into the arena, which I remember not expecting at all.

I went to my mum because, you know, I was like 12 years old.

um and I she couldn't read the books that I read before I read them because I would just hoard them and you know want to read them first so she read them afterwards so I had to kind of tell her the whole plot and explain why this was so incredible and you know I just adored that sequel and adored the second movie as well um and I think it's you know it's interesting because I the I have a little bit of a theory that I was working on it not working on it but it's just a thing that I was thinking about a series is a bit like dating right so I think the first book you know

hormones are high.

Like everything is new.

Everything is exciting.

I think this works.

Yeah.