For today I am going to write about A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!). And let me start by saying that I always feel mean about saying that books are lacking in any way because there’s SO MUCH WORK put into each one, but I have come up with one (and a half) series that I wish would’ve ended earlier, and one that I need moooore of already.

The Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce (First Test, Page, Squire and Lady Knight) is a suite of books that I believe would’ve been way stronger if there had only been three, or maybe even two of them. I like the main character, Kel, a lot and especially the second and third book are quite good, but… yes. The first one is interesting but a bit longwinded, and the fourth one feels a bit after-the-fact.

(I do love that she doesn’t do the whole “fall in love with one person and living happily after” bit, and I adore Neal, Kel’s best friend. I just want to state that for the record.)

I know that Tamora Pierce is huge and that her books have an enormous following, so I feel a bit like I’m “swearing in church” as us Swedes like to say about this sort of statements, but I do think this is true! Being a bit more tightly written, and featuring a few less battles, caring of horses and riding through the kingdom might have been very good for this particular series. Brilliant even.

I also wish that J.K. Rowling had stopped at seven. I love the actual Harry Potter books, but the extra books, Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Beedle the Bard? I don’t know, they’re too much. Having fictional characters writing forewords and pretending like this is a favourite book of theirs only makes me cringe. Cringe, I tell you!

So, yes. Thank you, JKR for not writing another series in the same universe, but do you have to make reference books, fake fairytales and lexicons? Please stop. I love Harry Potter, I want to keep feeling that way!

As for books I wish would go on and on? I’m going to say that I wish that Siren Beat by TansyRR would become a real book (it was released as a novella from Twelfth Planet Press), or preferably a whole bunch of books. And no, I’m not just saying that because she’s my bestie. Honest.

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