Five+ Book Series😮‍💨

Does anyone else find a series that they LOVE, like just devour three books of it in a matter of days- and then you find out that it’s like a 5+ book series and it takes you weeks to finish the rest of the series?

I genuinely don’t know if it’s a me problem, or if it’s just most series truly aren’t meant to be THAT long.

Take for example the “Flame and Thorn Series by Marion Blackwood.” I was OBSESSED. I found them as an audio book on the Libby app and I was LIVING in my headphones. They had such an amazing storyline, and I genuinely finished all the way to book 3 in less than 2 days- it was so good. Then book four hit and I was just really struggling to get myself to even listen to it. By book five- I was literally listening on 2x speed to get through it and see what happens, but I SWEAR TO GOD if I read/hear “My stomach lurched” one more time in my life I might strangle myself.

I can’t even recommend certain series I LOVED because they were just too long for no damn reason. I actually find myself avoiding some series I really want to read when I see they are more than 4 books because most of the time it’s just too much.

I’m currently reading “The bonds that tie by J. Bree.” I was really enjoying it, read the first four books in as many days (if not less) and now I’m at book 5 (the main conflict still isn’t resolved, obviously) and it’s taken me 3 days to read the book. It’s not a bad book, but it feels like the excitement of the story has just been sucked out of it- like I maybe need a break from it to enjoy the story again. But there’s two more books after this one🥲

I loved “The Royals of Forsyth University by Angel Lawson and Samantha Rue” because even though it’s a 12 book series the first 9 are trilogies. I could read three of them and feel like the story was finished to pick up something else- then read the next three and feel the same. The books are connected but in an independent way.

I don’t know, I’m just ranting because I’m tired of finding these series I LOVE just to be burnt out by book 4/5😓