{"id":14802,"date":"2019-01-26T22:20:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14802"},"modified":"2019-01-26T22:20:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T03:20:29","slug":"left-wanting-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14802","title":{"rendered":"Left Wanting More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently thinking about books I really liked, and series that ended long before I was finished enjoying them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some series I wish the authors had continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/williamsl.php\">Liz Williams<\/a>&#8216; Detective Inspector Chen &#8211; Urban fantasy plus police procedural is always going to be catnip to me. This series is one of my favorites in that genre.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trouble with Hell, Zhu Irzh reflected bitterly, was not so much the palpable miasma of evil (with which he was, after all, ingrained) but the bureaucracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been more than eight years since the last book in <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gustainis_justin.php\">Justin Gustainis<\/a>&#8216; Occult Crimes Unit series.<\/p>\n<p>These books have truly horrible covers, but what was inside I really liked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yeah, I really said, \u201check\u201d. I\u2019m no Boy Scout, but it\u2019s not smart to say words like \u201chell\u201d in a supe bar. You never know what might be listening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/murphy_CE.php\">CE Murphy<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Magic and Manners<\/em> and would LOVE more historical-fantasy-romance. Alas, it&#8217;s been three years and no signs of another book.<\/p>\n<p>Another series I wanted more of was <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/bischoff_susan.php\">Susan Bischoff<\/a>&#8216;s Talen Chronicles. It&#8217;s got a feel in some ways to Rising Stars (which I love) in that it&#8217;s a look at how society would deal with the sudden appearance of children with super powers.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/roessnerm.php\">Michaela Roessner<\/a>&#8216;s two books and was crushed to discover a third was never published.<\/p>\n<p>As an honorable mention, I found on a single book by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/oshea.php\">Pat O&#8217;Shea<\/a>, and I loved it. I wish it would be converted to eBook format.<\/p>\n<p>So are there any series you loved that were abandoned well before their time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently thinking about books I really liked, and series that ended long before I was finished enjoying them. Here are some series I wish the authors had continued. Liz Williams&#8216; Detective Inspector Chen &#8211; Urban fantasy plus police procedural is always going to be catnip to me. This series is one of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3QK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}