Nowadays I don't really have any authors or book series like this. As I kid I used to get really excited for a new Series of Unfortunate Events or Alex Rider book. For a while I kept my eye on Adrian Tchaikovsky, but lately I've found some of his novels to be hit or miss.

The only book release I'm currently looking forward to is Brigands & Breadknives in the Legends & Lattes series by Travis Baldree. The other two books have been cosy and wholesome, and it's become a little tradition of mine to read these books around Christmas.

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[–] dresden@discuss.online 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Brandon Sanderson, pretty much buy anything he writes.

For all others, I now wait for the series to complete before getting the books.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I read The Way of Kings earlier this year and loved it, but given the size and quantity of these books I doubt I'm going to be able to get on top on that series or any of his others in time for his latest releases xD

Waiting for series by other authors to complete makes a lot of sense. It's super frustrating following an author only for their quality to drop near the end.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Stormlight is his biggest series, most of his other work is much shorter. Elantris is stand alone. Mistborn is a trilogy (thought there's also Era 2, and now Era 3 is currently written, but you can read the first trilogy as standalone). Skyward series is also shorter, but it's a more of a YA, still pretty good though.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 4 points 3 days ago

His series are usually 3-4 books of varying length, often with one-offs in between installments. Stormlight, for example, is done. There will likely be a sequel series in 5-10 years, which gives plenty of time to catch up.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s a good idea.

I was a Dresden Files super fan but then the author went through some stuff IRL, started a whole new series so now in a perfect environment everything takes twice as long, went five years between books, and turned out a massive two parter, both of which I strongly dislike as he clearly doesn’t separate his life from the characters he writes.

I only recently finally tried the “He who fights with monsters” series because LitRPG sounded terrible to me and I love it. It’s 12 books so far but the author just had a big health scare and I’m worried for him. Absolutely entertaining series though.

Sanderson is the gold standard at this point.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 1 points 6 hours ago

Well, I kind of had a bad luck with authors.

My first big (and favourite) fantasy series was Wheel of Time, and author died before the last book (silver lining: when Sanderson finished the series, I got introduced to him). Also started A Song of Ice and Fire and well, we all know how that went. That is when I decided I should wait for series to complete. Which is also why I haven't read Wise Man's Fear yet, used to follow Rothfuss' blog and heard great things about it, but wanted him to finish the series.