Series Pet Peeve

MrsJenE · October 2013

It's really dumb, but I just have to say it.

I hate when I read a series and the titles of the books in the series are all very similar. This makes it hard to tell people which book I'm reading. For instance, I'm currently reading Kate Daniels #3. No clue what it's called because all the books have "magic" in the title. With BDB, I just refer to the brother. Same thing happened with the Night Huntress series and the Fever series.

booneybear · October 2013

I can NEVER remember the BDB book names. I just refer to them by brother as well. Same with the Fever series. I have no idea which one is which.

j*&p* · October 2013

I was always like that with the Sookie series. The "dead whatever" titles were always loosely related to the plot.

Young_Love · October 2013

And I hate it when they don't have a number somewhere so I can easily tell the order. GRR.

MrsJenE · October 2013

Young_Love said:

And I hate it when they don't have a number somewhere so I can easily tell the order. GRR.

This too. I always have to google "______ series order."

cnthrdlywt2bwZ · October 2013

Sookie books are the worst. I've checked out multiple books in the series multiple times because I didn't remember if I read that title or not.

SnShne322 · October 2013

Yea, the Kate Daniels series is a bitch. Good thing the content makes up for it. That annoys me about series too. Just give them their own names.

nocturnalintimacy · October 2013

Yes. All of the above.

Slytherpuff · October 2013

Young_Love said:

And I hate it when they don't have a number somewhere so I can easily tell the order. GRR.

GAH. Especially this.

EliStar · October 2013

Yup. Exactly. And OMG HOW FAR ARE YOU?!!!

booknerd226 · October 2013

Ditto Young_Love. Every time I buy a book at a used book sale and get home and add it to goodreads and it tells me it's part of a series I search all over the book trying to figure out how I was supposed to know.

RiverPlate · October 2013

I think it was the Kate Daniels series - I completely spoiled one of the books for myself because I had them in the wrong order. The first few pages of the book I was reading completely ruined the book I had unintentionally skipped.

Pebble_Cafe · October 2013

All of this! I have to look up the order in fictiondb then check goodreads to know if I read it or not. Annoying.

julie37619 · October 2013

Young_Love said:

And I hate it when they don't have a number somewhere so I can easily tell the order. GRR.

YES! When it just says "A ____ Novel". I need to know WHICH one, not just that it's part of a series.

taylormillgirl · October 2013

julie37619 said:

Young_Love said:

And I hate it when they don't have a number somewhere so I can easily tell the order. GRR.

YES! When it just says "A ____ Novel". I need to know WHICH one, not just that it's part of a series.

I hate this. Why don't publishers label each book like "The third book in the ___ series"? I can't see any logical reason not to do that.

SusieBW · October 2013

I have this problem with every single series that isn't clearly numbered. I have to look up the Outlander series order every single time I want to start reading one. Or if someone is talking about them, I have to look up which ones I've read and which ones I haven't gotten to yet.

jkfranklin · October 2013

I agree with everything you all have said! I think they don't make what number book it is so that you buy book #3 without knowing it's order and then you HAVE to buy books 1 and 2.

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