I always like to read at least one other book in between each book in a series.
I think that this is, at least partly, to do with the pressure on writers to try to do trilogies out of everything these days. A planned trilogy will have a story arc where there is a climax in each book as well as building towards a climax for the whole series. And, IDK, when I have just reached the climactic end of one book, diving straight into the “slow bit” in the next one just feels - anticlimactic, I guess. I suspect something that wasn’t originally planned to be a series or a trilogy may be different, but what do I know…
In practice, I tend to interleave two - sometimes three - series (or “universes”) at a time; When I finish a book in one series, I pick up the next book in the other series. I like to make systems :D
Incidentally, I also tend to get bored if I read books in the same genre back to back so I tend to have series in different genres.
I always like to read at least one other book in between each book in a series.
I think that this is, at least partly, to do with the pressure on writers to try to do trilogies out of everything these days. A planned trilogy will have a story arc where there is a climax in each book as well as building towards a climax for the whole series. And, IDK, when I have just reached the climactic end of one book, diving straight into the “slow bit” in the next one just feels - anticlimactic, I guess. I suspect something that wasn’t originally planned to be a series or a trilogy may be different, but what do I know…
In practice, I tend to interleave two - sometimes three - series (or “universes”) at a time; When I finish a book in one series, I pick up the next book in the other series. I like to make systems :D Incidentally, I also tend to get bored if I read books in the same genre back to back so I tend to have series in different genres.
Right now, I am interleaving