By: Lorene Peuker

Friday, Febuary 10

I love reading and sometimes I feel like when you read a book you can’t fit enough information about all of the characters into one book, or when you feel like the author has a rushed or unfinished ending to a story. This is why so many of my favorite books are series/parts of a series. I am going to tell you today some of my favorite things about the series of books.

First with a series of books you get to know the characters and that gives the author more time to reveal parts of the background of the characters. I also like when the main character has a secret and towards the end of the book the secret is revealed. The authors also drop new characters in the second or third books that change parts of the plot which you never saw coming.

Second, often I feel when you only have one book, the author could have expanded on some of the scenes or gone deeper into the personal life. I also feel like with so many books there is just a giant cliffhanger at the end of the book and there is no second part of the book.

Some of my favorite series are “The Lunar Chronicles,” which are twists on fairy tale characters such as Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood. Second, I really enjoyed the “Let The Sky Fall” series By Shannon Messenger. It is an adventure about the main character Vane stepping into his role as king after his whole world was turned upside down and inside out. Shannon Messenger has also written another series called the “Keeper of the Lost City.” I have not read these yet but will be starting on them soon.