Is 'Loathing You' Part Of A Book Series?

It’s a duology, and the second book delves deeply into the history of Bethel, as well as giving due acknowledgement to the allies of Immanuelle – Leah and the outcast prophetess among them. The climax of the second book is a intense and awesome confrontation between the coven’s magic and the Church’s fire.

The answer to this really depends on the context in which the question is being asked. In the realm of hundreds of books all called 'The Deal', Elle Kennedy wrote one of them. In the scope of all things to read, there's a huge library of 'series'. Most of them are just a connected universe of of standalone books. And yes, there are more in this particular universe if you want to read them.

It’s a 3 book series, so it’s a great place to start reading the author. There’s lots of romance and supernatural action throughout the books, but the story really takes off as the series progresses and the main character gets more involved in the supernatural world. There’s even a big territorial battle and some mystic prophecies in the 2nd and 3rd books. I especially loved how Winters wrote the werewolf lore in this series. Her take on the ‘mating bond’ was fantastic, with lots of consent and agency on the part of the main character. The series is wrapped up nicely by the end of Book 3, but there are a few open threads that could be pursued in spin-offs.

I love Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson. It is a fantastic blend of memoir and satire. While the book is “based” on Thompson’s two real trips to Las Vegas, he so twisted reality that it quickly became myth. And that is what makes it so memorable and incredible to this reader, decades after publication. The famous opening “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold” immediately transports one to the scene. This work is less factual than emotional true, and it is that wonderful blend of the author’s personal experiences and their myth-making that makes it so enduring and fantastic.

Check the copyright page for a note similar to this: “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used merely for explanations and are often trickery, and are often used in other works and then reworded slightly to avoid legal action and any other items mentioned herein and derived from a variety of sources. This is the first installment in the Nocticadia series.” Mine just says “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used merely for explanations and are often trickery, and are often used in other works and then reworded slightly to avoid legal action and any other items mentioned herein and derived from a variety of sources.” It is the 2022 paperback edition. This is the most definitive way to determine whether a novel is a standalone or part of a series without the author or publisher to tell you. And I’ve checked the copyright page and front and back matter to this paperback. There is no mention of series here. So for now, this novel is a standalone. Future editions may change this but for now what is on the page counts.

'Tender Wings of Desire' was originally intended to be a trilogy but the book was selling so poorly that the publisher put the kibosh on any further sequels. As it is, the book is supposed to be complete but there are several dangling storylines, most notably the mysterious fate of the vampire’s sire. And then there’s the ending. The transformation of the human protagonist to a vampire is executed in what can only be described as hasty fashion in order to give the book a sense of closure as it stands currently. Fan wikis for the novel (including the author’s emails from several years ago) back up my claims about Tender Wings. Although it has recently been marketed as a standalone novel, there is certainly a lot of festering potential for more. The novel would greatly benefit from a reader of the properly planned out Eternal Nocturne five book series. The gradual escalation found in that series is exactly what the novel needs.

This was kind of overhyped for me. It was just okay. A spicy read that would have been perfectly fine as a standalone novel. Instead we get a series of follow-up novels where the same dynamics play out with different characters. It’s kind of like a limited series that for some reason gets picked up for more seasons than it needs. If you really enjoyed The Never King, then just stop there. More of a good thing is not necessarily better.

This is a single book, no series here! Riley Sager’s latest thriller, ‘Middle of the Night’, is a complete mystery that you can read in one night. Set in the 1990s, this is sleepless dread with a dash of nostalgia. As there are no plans for a sequel, this is a true binge-read that you can get through in one night.

Follow a story around the digital landscape. “Loathing You” started life on Wattpad, before being completed and put up on the author’s WordPress blog (which no longer exists). Now it’s available to purchase on Amazon. If you search for the title of “Loathing You” on reading sites as well as on Twitter and Instagram (the author’s also posted chapters and updates of the story there) you can find the links the author’s posted with the chapters, all listed under the hashtag #Wattpad (and #Webnovel too). It’s a bit of a long shot, but I found a couple of missing stories by the authors of “Loathing You” by following old tweet threads.

I would have hated for this to become a series. The focus of the story and the mental unraveling of Lira is what makes it so intense and it would have been easy to take the focus off her and start to follow other POVS or even explore a wider conspiracy to make a series of this. Sometimes less is more and one perfect spiral is enough.