Straight off the bat I’ll tell you I hate it. You get near the end of a book you’re enjoying and then it ends and the rest is chapter one of another book or the next book in same series (not a continuous series, I mean with the same MC or detective or whatever.)
It really annoys me tbh. I know they are trying to hook us in but still. I have gone into town, taken my book, and when I got a coffee and sat down to read thinking I had plenty to read it turned out there were only 5 more pages and then it was over! I don’t even bother reading the chapter one at the end.
The worst I have come across was a Linwood Barclay book. Now I love his books, but this one ended without it all being resolved and said you would need to buy another book to find out how it all works out and here’s chapter one or the first 50 pages or something like that. I didn’t read them and I didn’t buy the next book as I felt like I’d been conned.
So, love it, hate it, or indifferent?
by marienbad2
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I couldn’t possibly care less.
It doesn’t bother me as such, but I rarely read them.