Chat Between Chapters: Series that should have stopped. with one book.

  Let’s chat about those series that should have stopped. With one book.

 Julie:

There are quite a few series where if I didn’t enjoy the first book, I wouldn’t have bothered with any following books. So I don’t know if those are fair to list here. But I’ll list a few where the first book was good, and the series got progressively worse.

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Lynn:

I completely agree with the Testing trilogy, Julie. I’ll add these to the above list:

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I’d add Carve the Mark and Roar to this list as well. So much so that I have zero interest in continuing the series.

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How about you? Any series you wish would have stopped with just one book?