How do y’all feel about continuing a series after an author dies? To me, I think one last book can be written to end it, but the series should rest with the author, just my thoughts though. I’m in the middle of a series right now and some random lady is “finishing” it, but she has written like 7 books that show no end. I’m not mad, but I just want to feel the satisfaction of completing a series and having the whole collection.
by Kayla0283
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I still have X by Sue Grafton on my shelf. Can’t bring myself to read it. I miss her
For the first half, I honestly thought this was about _reading_ a series and whether you should stop reading it when the author dies, and I was SO confused 😅
The only time I approved of it was when David Gemmell’s wife finished his Troy trilogy after he passed, which follows along with your “one last ride” sentiment. He had laid out all the groundwork and had written most of the book, and she was the person who knew which way it was going to go. That made sense.
These “zombie” series that go on for mulitple years and multiple authors just turn my stomach. Ludlum, Flynn, Clancy, the resurrection of the Spenser character and others. Just… let it all rest.
I feel like after a significant amount of time — maybe 25 years — it can be OK. I’ve enjoyed stories in the James Bond and Philip Marlowe series done by other authors, even though they’re never really the same as the originals. Both of those series only came decades later, and that helps. By then it’s not about keeping the gravy train rolling, more about fond homage.
Showing my age here, but I read the entire Hardy Boys series of books when I was like, 12 or 13 years old. At the time, there were like 125 of them. I enjoyed every single one of them.
Fast forward to my adulthood and I found out that most of them were in fact, ***not***, written by Franklin W. Dixon. I really didn’t care.
As a counterpoint, I did watch every single episode of the *Killing Eve* T.V. series. Of the 4 seasons it aired, the first one blew it out of the park; second one, really good; third one, good; fourth, meh. Different script writers for all 4 seasons.