Okay. I am beginning to notice a pattern in many of the book series I have fallen in love with. More specifically: Harry Potter, Gemma Doyle Trilogy, and Twilight saga.

All of these series are now finished, and I must say that I DID NOT like the last books of each series as much as I've liked the earlier books. And I'm wondering why that is. You'd think that I would like each book better than the one before it. But I don't.

Do any of you feel the same way? Don't get me wrong, I still like the last books well enough, but I can't pretend I wasn't a little bit disappointed with each one.

I'm starting to think that maybe the reason why I wasn't very happy with the final books was because there was so much time for the hype to build up, that I was SO EXCITED for the last books...that when I actually read them I was disappointed because I got my hopes up way too high. Maybe if I hadn't spent a year anticipating each book I would feel differently...

Who knows?

But now this pattern has me worried about City of Glass. I'm afraid that the same thing will happen, that by the time March comes out I will be so hyped for it that it will NEVER live up to my expectations.

It's like a curse of the last book of a series...will Cassandra break this curse? Will CoG make me love the series even more? Or leave me unsatisfied?

I know I'm overanalyzing this...there really is no reason to be thinking about this so early...but I just wonder if anyone is worried too.

Well, for me, I loved Deathly Hallows and hated Breaking Dawn. So you just have to have faith in CC I think.

She's written amazing books so far, and the cookies have been really good, so I think you're just psyching yourself out haha.

You probably haven't had luck with final books because maybe you expect something or expect too much and it turns out differently. or something like that.

So just... take it easy and think about what good quality writing and story has come of this series so far.

I partly agree with you Jess. Not all series end poorly, but you are right about the hype machine really being a concern.

Deathly Hallows and Breaking Dawn are not my favorite books out of either series, but I think they are good ends to those series.

Hopefully Cassandra won't disappoint and next March we'll have an awesome end to the series.

I have Faith In CC, She Know how to keep a tight grip on her fans with all these DELICIOUS cookies.

And I TOTALLY agree, The Hype For Books that you get SOOOOOOO excited For, Breaking Dawn, HArry Potter. U get brought back to book reality when you read it. Nd you get dissapointed cause you have Such A High Expectation for it in your head. But The Hype For CoG is a little more Controlled Then With BD or HP, Its Not Explosive Hype and there's a part of me that hopes that there won't be until after its released but another part of me wants more people to get sucked into the series, seeing why I don't wanna Wait Until FRICKIN MARCH 24 to see the how it all closes and comes to a finish.

But Jess, I can See the pattern as well, Cause I'm also worrying about it but these Cookies Cassandra are giving us are giving me faith that it will be AMAZINg! The Last Of THe Book Series Curse SHALL be broken

CC is an amazing author. I get what you're saying, because DH and BD were pretty good, but not as good as they could have been. They didn't meet their potential, I guess you could say. We have to trust her, I supposed, to finish the series off nicely. I have a feeling that it will turn out to be great and my favorite of all of them, but I can't be sure. Either way, I sure hope that CC won't succumb to this sort of thing. I trust her enough to do it well.

Or else I will be very angry.

And sad.

Totally agree with Ashley. The cookies like really flipping amazing, and those are just like a page or two of the novel! I have complete and full faith in what Cassandra wants to do with the books. I mean, whatever she does I'm gonna love it, unless she kills off Jace for no reason, which I know she won't do.

Seriously, I think we don't know enough of the twists and turns that can happen within these books to really prepare ourselves. I mean, if you really think about it,

Twilight.. it's pretty much obvious what is going to happen and there's not a whole lot of complexity to the plot. I love the books so much and I love Edward&Bella because they're the freaking bomb diggity. However, there's not a whole lot of depth to the books. There's not much that happens, and it usually doesn't involve a whole lot of action. Those books only have a usual one fight scene that extends over a few chapters. That's the most action you really see and for most of the book, because you're in Bella's point of view (up until Breaking Dawn, that is) you don't get to see shit because Edward is an overprotective ass that I love and adore with all of my heart.

Harry Potter.. Well, I wasn't too disappointed with the seventh book. Am I the only one who kind of really loved it? Anyone? Anyone? No? Anyway, we all knew what had to happen, we didn't know in what manner, but we knew something had to happen. I mean, it's not as obvious as Twilight is, but it's still a little bit more obvious than the Mortal Instruments.

Gemma Doyle.. Just bought it, will get back to you on that. Heard the ending was awful, though. I got prepared by Kaylee on that one.

Mortal Instruments.. She goes through so much action, so much drama, so much traveling here and there, doing this, doing that in like a chapter that it's almost hard to keep up sometimes. Unless there's a long, important conversation that happens, it's normally really action oriented, very visual, and very fast. That's what really attracted me to the books, it seemed so quick and rapid like an action film or like a Buffy episode. Because of this, it's really hard to predict what she's going to do because, honestly, anything can happen. I mean, look at the first cookie we got, the Jace and Alec thing. Like, holy shit in a pita! That was like 2 pages! I guess it's just hard to predict where it's going to go because, honestly.. I hate to say it, but anything can happen and I freaking love it. So, fear not, my dear. All will be well. Cassandra Clare is a badass, as is her books. We shall not regret reading these books like I did Breaking Dawn slightly (slightly..don't kill me). It's gonna be AWESOME.

Just my two.. or maybe three cents.

I have faith in Cassandra Clare's writing abilities! I don't think the City of Glass will be a disapointment at all. Judging by the cookies she's been giving us, the book sounds like its going to full of the usual action packed scences,drama, and fast passed plot. Maybe a few more Twist's?


I haven't read the Twilight series yet so I can't give you my opinion on that, but The Deathly Hollows was all right.. alot of unnessacary character killing. I think that as long a Cassandra dosen't rush the book and dosen't kill of most of the characters (or cut off important limbs) the book will be just as good as the first two, if not better.

City of Glass will not dissapoint!

Ok...well...you all have calmed my fears a bit. And you're right...the cookies we've been getting have been awesome. Not to mention, there isn't as much overall hype with this series. Not that hype is alltogether a bad thing. But it's like a popular song on the radio...I might love it at first, but then I end up hating it because it is OVERPLAYED. Does that make sense? I still love all of the aforementioned series' though.

My point is: I want so badly to LOVE CoG! To really love it. So I'm still a teensy bit apprehensive...but I guess all I can do is wait and trust that CC will break the curse haha

I personally adored DH- I put it as my second favorite of all the Potter books. But in other instances, there is weight to the over-hype. Jess, I agree. It is like that song on the radio that I loved at first, but hated three months later. (Hey There Delilah anyone?) You just get so excited on the hype that it gets so hard for an outhor to live up to the astronomical expectations.

Personally, I'm glad that the series was planned out before publishing- I get annoyed when authors try too hard to top themselves in successive books without a real plan. So knowing that she's had this in mind all along is a relief to me.

The ONLY reason I was really dissapointed with Twiligth was because for the past 7 months I read 100 fanfics for it. So BD just felt like another fanfic. And really. It was predictable. That was all there to happen. Except for the plot twist of Reneesme, it was all predicted. And all of Reneesme felt so surreal. Again. Like a giant 800 paged fanfic. Yeah I was dissapointed. Why? Because I decided to fantasize the future. And I read fanfics.

DH I loved because it was all like babam! I didn't see any of it comming [save final harry voldi showdown] so it was all a surprise. I didn't try to fantasize and look at the future.

And Gemma Dolye only sucked because Karik turned into a ..... well Kaylee's already said it more than enough.

So for CoG I just won't think about theories too much and I won't read fanfics and so I think I should be fine.

Twilight doomed itself ;P
Nah I'm kidding.

The fear of this is valid. Hyping ourselves up a bit for this book series, wonderful as it is, and the potential fear of disappointment.

But I love CC, she's a good writer and doesn't dawdle. Other books I've read have done this.
All cookies aside, there's no doubt in my mind that I won't-at least-be very much entertained!

My cure is that I'm reading several other books in the mean time-and I have work to distract me. Which is why i guess I haven't been on the boards so often (sorry guys!)
I'm also re reading the books again (this makes three times, I think) along with those other books as well.

it's fun to geek out and whatnot for a while, but it's good to step back-especially in waiting for the next installment.
Kinda like... filling your day with things to do on christmas eve Er, if that's what you celebrate anyway.

I guess I'm going to be in the big minority here that I'm the only one who didn't hate BD at all and that's probably because either I only stumbled on the series itself this summer along with MI and yes its because I didn't think too much about what I wanted the series to end or hype myself with so much expectations. I sorta felt for Stephanie Meyer when they interviewed her, letting her know the dissapointing reaction to BD. I just hope that it doesn't stop her from finishing Midnight Sun or even writing altogether. But I guess it comes with the territory..authors will have to be prepared.

The same with HP, seriously I didn't start reading the series itself until the first movie was about to come out. I was living under a rock, not knowing what the heck was the hype about this book. DH was actually my second favorite besides the first book. Although it didn't stop me from being sad to read so many character deaths.

Anyway, the best thing to do is don't overhype yourself, don't put too many expectations, that will just ruin your enjoyment of reading period.

Jules

i kind that there with u somehow. i was overly excited bout BD, HP and other series but when i read it for me was like the author was rushing through the hold time frame of the story i mean i liked them but it was that it was missing something essential n cant quite pinpoint that ut yeas i was all hyper but for this one COG i think i like it better than the 1 idk might change my mind l8r?

This is the first of CC books that i have read, has anyone read others of her series? I am worried not that the book will be bad, I know it will be good! But will it end the way we, or I, expect? Is she the type of author that will give a happy ending? I'm starting to get so scared that I will want to through the book at the end.