Christine Feehan: Christine Feehan started my journey into paranormal romance with Dark Prince, so I will always be loyal to her. It doesn’t matter how many books are misses, misses, misses, I just can’t let her go. Because she has hits, hits, hits. Someday, I hope soon, she’s going to need to bring her Carpathian series to an end. I hope sooner rather than later because honestly, how long can you beat a dead horse? If you read the series, you know how long it took Skylar to get her book. Now, there are more Carpathian children and that’s going to drag on for years and years and years. So there is no end in sight at this point. Even then, I will remain a faithful follower.
Linda Howard: Cry No More was her last Linda Howard book, IMO. They have all been misses for me until Troublemaker. I heard she had some health problems and my heart really goes out to her. Health problems or no, I still wouldn’t give up on her. With books like After the Night, Son of the Morning, and Heart of Fire? How can you give up on that? Honestly, people.
Sherrilyn Kenyon: I don’t know where she went off the reservation with the Dark-Hunter series. I think it was before Acheron‘s book. Even then, I faithfully (I’m very faithful), stayed and read the books. Then things didn’t make sense. Like she lost her notes or something. Her world building was contradicting what she had already built and it confused me and then made me angry because I thought I understood, then I thought I was just losing it. Then when she did Stryker’s book, I had it. Anti-heroes can be okay, but I honestly believe they don’t belong in the Dark-Hunter series. She also drags along what heroes we really want (Nick and Savitar to be precise). Yet again, I picked up Dragonbane and liked it a lot and will be picking up Dragonmark from the library and may not even wait until then. But I did skip a lot in between.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips: What happened to the days of Kiss an Angel? I stopped reading her stuff when Lucy’s book came out. I was never really interested in Lucy as an adult. And I can’t even remember the book before that. But I always go back. I’m going to read First Star I See Tonight because 1) I love football and 2) She’s never written a detective. Plus it’s a Chicago Stars book.
J.R. Ward: Everyone here knows that I can’t get off the train. I’ve tried. I stayed off The Bourbon Kings train until just recently but I’m so glad I read it because it’s probably better than the BDB right now. But I can’t give her up. I wish someone could tell me why. Except I have a problem. Because I know I have a problem and I just can’t figure out why. I think I hope she will go back to Dark Lover and the first 5 or so books. The new series with the trainees was really reminiscent of the beginning of the series, so I’m hopeful. I would say that I don’t know if that will be enough for me, but we all know that she could write a two paragraph article in a magazine and I would read the damn thing.
How about you? What authors can you not give up on?
Hm, I don’t know that I’ve reached the point with any author where I just “can’t give up”. I have a couple I *think* would be on that list–I just haven’t been forced to find out yet, haha. I’d say I’d probably keep reading Laura Griffin forever, even if her books started going off the rails. Sarah Morgan would probably be on that list too. But fortunately, their books are still amazing and I there’s no question whether I’d want to stop reading them. 🙂
My problem is just the opposite. I have so many authors I read that I often don’t get around to reading books by my favorites. I buy them, I just don’t read them! I don’t think I have any authors that I will continue to read no matter what. I’ll give them one or two books that aren’t as good, but after that, I’m done. However, if it’s a UF series, when they finally wrap it up, I will consider reading the final book just to see how it all ended up. Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series is a good example of that. I gave up after book 9, but I still want to read the final book.
I would say that I agree with jenm that I have more favorite authors that I don’t have time to read than ones I can’t give up on. I think SEP is the only exception to that. I haven’t liked her last few books, but I’m excited about her new one.
oh I agree on quite a few of these authors. Christine Feehan I fell in love with with Dark Challenge, and was my first PNR and fell in love with the genre because of her. So I am still a fan, but I have noticed her past two releases have gotten a bit better from the past few years. I hear ya about the Carpathian Series, as much as I love the world building–its feel like banging your head against the wall with no end in sight. I love J.R. Ward, but I haven’t been able to finish the BDB series because of how its so different from the first half of the series. I really struggle with multiple story lines. Great list of authors you have here though.