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Where's the rest of the story? No ending, just dead air/junk
After reading 50,000+ books it took ticking me off to write about top-level storytelling. I liked the "book" very much, then I got to...the end? Whhhaat? No END. Books are relatively expensive. As a total book-aholic with decades of business troubleshooting experience, it is aggravating to read a book series comprised of incomplete "books". Whomever came up with this marketing tool is...a tool. Find a way to fix this disaster. As an insightful reader wrote, put the books back together (and make them flow)--don't be greedy and split up so-called books into coordinating book portions. I've never seen legitimate authors sample out their wares like partial recipes. Give me the whole picture. I'm embarrassed for the author--it's a disservice to her talent and obviously angers readers who care. I would buy all of her books if they were complete works just as I have over 50 authors complete works, but not like this...Look at Kathryn Le Veque, some of her early tomes are over 1,000 pages. Catherine Coulter, Julie Garwood, Lynn Kurland, Stephanie Laurens, Julie James, etc, etc have NEVER portioned out their works. Wow, English 101--have a beginning, middle, and end, then repeat for certain success. Again, this isn't like The Depression & listening to serials on the radio. We aren't in pre-school waiting for the teacher to finish reading a story for us. It's arrogant, rude, and extremely ignorant to treat readers like this. Do your job and give us REAL books that start and end as a stand alone work, then continue on with the next whole book. Cripes, it's not rocket science.
December 2018 · Books · verified purchase