Not finishing book series. To me a book is a tool that people use to gain information and/or escape the real world and all of it’s problems to focus on the epic story that is unfurling in-between two binding covers. Through dilemmas and perceptions that are not the reader’s own, books have mastered the art of distraction. There is something fascinating when one get’s absorbed in the protagonists’ journey and experiences everything that they have. Although reading an individual book that is not associated with another is easy, I have difficulties with completing a book series. With a lone book the reader is aware that sooner or later the story ends within the final pages of that particular book. Whereas, with a series the adventure is prolonged with different side quests that lead up to the main battle/conflict. Within a series the reader becomes very intimate with the characters that are introduced. By the previous statement I allude to the feelings the …show more content…
Because of this emotional attachment it is hard for the readers to part. When a book is coming to an end the universe and all of the adventures that the main characters undergo disappear. The anticipation and anxiety that a reader gains from the story’s continuity makes the reader speed through the final book but focus more on the fine details and final thoughts of the characters, makes reading books in a series more challenging than it would have if it was solitary. Reading the first book in the sequence isn’t challenging, unless it is not particularly good quality, it is fairly easy. However, when one arrives at the last book, everything slows to a crawl. Time has frozen and no matter what the reader wants to preserve the last book and the memories that came with the