From the conversation
You can love a series and still stop reading it
Her Walsh family notes, a reluctant beginning with Throne of Glass, and the problem with treating every unfinished book alike.
A reader considering whether to stop The Serpent and the Wings of Night described being well into the book without feeling the connection between its central pair. In the discussion that followed, another reader said they finished but chose not to continue into the sequel. Two stopping points, with a useful distinction between finishing a story and wanting more of it.
I thought of her Walsh family notes. On Underneath It All, she writes about relatable characters with depth, and cheering for the pairings as she moved through the series. She also says she did not finish the final book. Both things fit comfortably inside the same reaction.
Sometimes enough is a compliment
Her separate note on Thresholds is wonderfully plain:
“I felt like I had spent enough time with this family, and didn't really feel invested in continuing their story.”
There is no need for me to turn that into disappointment with everything that came before. She had enjoyed the company. Then she was ready for different company. If I am using her reading record to look for the next book, that is valuable information: another familiar pairing might be less tempting than a fresh start.
The difficult beginning is a different question
Then there is Throne of Glass. She needed several attempts, skimmed to get through the opening book, and became more invested later in the series. I have kept both parts of that history on the site: the earlier DNF and the later return.
And in her note on Gild and The Plated Prisoner, she says the full series is necessary to appreciate the character arc and the story’s depth. That is her enthusiasm for that particular journey. It does not create a rule that every other series has earned six books of somebody’s time.
These notes make the finished-or-unfinished column more interesting. One book lost her curiosity. Another asked for patience that eventually paid off. One series gave her a family she enjoyed until she had spent enough time with them.
I want to preserve those differences. They tell me more about where to look next than a completion rate ever could.
Public discussions linked above were checked on 21 September 2026. Her quoted reactions come from her own reading notes, linked beside each book.