How do y’all feel about continuing a series after an author dies? To me, I think one last book can be written to end it, but the series should rest with the author, just my thoughts though. I’m in the middle of a series right now and some random lady is “finishing” it, but she has written like 7 books that show no end. I’m not mad, but I just want to feel the satisfaction of completing a series and having the whole collection.
Depends on how they handle it. For example the guy who took over for Vince Flynn was meticulous in his preparation, re-reading the original books and taking notes on how Flynn wrote and chose words. He also got a primer, with Flynn having already partially written the next book in the series that shows how he was going to continue with the character. This kind of effort I can get behind.
Tom Clancy is the opposite…he or his estate has licensed the use of his name and tons of stuff has his name all over it that he really had nothing to do with. I wouldn’t trust anything written after his death to be a “Tom Clancy book”. Not to say they are going to be bad books, just nothing like what Clan y produced while alive.
Kyle Mills has done an amazing job continuing the Mitch Rapp books for Vince Flynn. I gave up on the series when Flynn died but eventually decided I’d try one of the new ones and was really surprised to find that they feel just like the ones Flynn wrote. I expect this is the exception rather than the rule, but it has softened my stance on this issue quite a bit.