Isabelle Werro

So, you know, you're meeting someone for the first time.

It's all fresh.

It's all thrilling, you know, learning about everything new.

Then the second book, that's make or break, right?

So you could fizzle out.

It could lose interest or it could build into this, you know, you're overcoming new challenges.

You're really becoming committed.

And I think that's where you have that long lasting like devotion to series.

Because personally for me, I don't think I've ever been as like obsessed with

a standalone book as I have been with a series and I think it is because you have you spend so much more time with the characters and once you get past if a sequel really hooks you in you are in that relationship for life I think that's a really good analogy thank you I'd pay that I'd pay that thank you

Yeah, because it needs its own story.

Like I think there are, I guess maybe that's sometimes what happens with a second book sort of syndrome is it could either be a bit of a bridge to get to the finale that the author has in mind.

And so there isn't necessarily enough happening in the book that's satisfying as its own story.

So I think each book needs to both build on the overall series story as well as having a plot that is satisfying and is somewhat resolved within that book.

And also I think that there's a case for like allowing a series to improve as well because I think I've definitely found that, you know, there are some series that genuinely improve as the author gains more experience as, you know, they're kind of writing these characters more and more and they just get better over time.

Well, didn't Robert Pattinson just say recently as well, there was no Team Jacob?

And I was like, huh.

But kind of true.

conflict it's like a red herring almost like it's kind of like I'm throwing you this to make you think that there could be another option when really we knew what the real option was all along that's the opposite to the brooding dark male enters the scene is we're going to red herring another man which actually is not the end game yeah

I do think talking about like time spans and like attention spans and the amount of time that we have though, were you ever like the type that had to reread all the books in the series before a new one came out?