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.
depends. like someone else mentioned, kyle mills, who took over for vince flynn on the mitch rapp series, there wasn’t much of a difference, he did a decent job continuing.
on the other hand, when eric von lustbader (sp?) continued the jason bourne series after robert ludlum died it was . . . messy. he struggled to even keep track of his own characters (we’re talking super major character introduced in first book only to never be heard from again, minor character killed at the end of the second, only to be magically resurrected into a major character in subsequent books), let alone properly deal with bourne, and killed a major character between books, kept having bourne fall in love with whichever random woman was around, it was just not great. now they’ve reset bourne with a different author which i think is supposed to be more tied to the moves than the original books.
then they did some stuff that was “based on the concept by ludlum” which i assume was some sort of half finished novel or treatment which was actually pretty decent. the covert one series. interestingly, kyle mills wrote a couple of those too i believe.