Friday Blog Hop - November 12th

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!

Each week, participating blogs are asked questions to post and answer on their websites.

I'm honored that this week's questions comes from me (Christinabean):

"If you find a book that looks interesting but is part of a series, do you always start with the first title?"

I usually like to start with the first title in a series but I don't always. If I have heard about a series and just want to give it a try, I might just pick up one of the earlier titles (book 2 or 3) from the library if the first one is not available. To me, a good writer will revisit some of the events in previous books in order to give the reader a bit of a background or even refresh the memories of those who have been reading. Of course there are some series which weave such an intricate plot that it is too complicated to follow unless you start from the beginning. How about you? Do you always start with the first title in a series?

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Curlypow here - As far as series go, I have been known to stop when I discover that the book I'm reading is not the first. As Christinabean says, most authors revisit events from previous books, but it's just not the same. Then again, it depends on the series. Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Underworld series has different lead characters every couple of books, so the order is not so important there. On the whole tho' yes, I do need to start at the beginning to be really content. I should know better!