One of the books I’ve been most looking forward to reading this holiday season (once I finish writing the novella) is The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman’s prequel to her book Practical Magic, which I fell in love with in its film version nearly two decades ago.
The two aunts in Practical Magic were such strong and fascinating characters that I confess I wondered, even then, about their own lives and past stories, so when I heard Alice Hoffman was writing a prequel that featured the aunts as young women, I added the book to my wish list (and, this past week, to my reading pile).
And it occurred to me that the next book I’ll be writing—The Vanished Days—could be considered a prequel of sorts to The Winter Sea.
Which got me thinking of prequels.
Sequels are common enough in the book world—some characters just go on living beyond “The End”, and find their way into one story after another. But prequels, when I started thinking about it, aren’t thick on the ground.
For me, a prequel (or a sequel, come to that) only works when the original author writes it. That’s just a personal quirk of mine, and I realize others may hold different views, but I’ve always considered Wide Sargasso Sea, for example, to be a derivative work of Jane Eyre, as opposed to an actual prequel.
On the other hand, C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew—the last book he finished writing in the Narnia series, although it was the second-last published—is a true prequel, filling in the backstory of how Narnia was created, and introducing the boy Digory Kirke, who will grow up to be the Professor with whom the Pevensie children are sent to stay at the beginning of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Going backward, and not forwards, seems to be a rarer thing in fiction, but when it’s done well, it can be wonderful and satisfying.
Do you like prequels, or do you prefer to imagine for yourself what happened before the beginning? Are there any characters or books you’d want a prequel to? Or are there any prequels you can recommend?
I guess I’m a non-prequel kind of gal. A couple of my favorite authors actually have some prequels available – Grace Burrowes/Windham Series and Julia Quinn/Bridgerton Series – but I’ve always preferred to spend my money on something else.
I guess I’m a non-prequel kind of gal. A couple of my favorite authors actually have some prequels available – Grace Burrowes/Windham Series and Julia Quinn/Bridgerton Series – but I’ve always preferred to spend my money on something else.
I guess I’m a non-prequel kind of gal. A couple of my favorite authors actually have some prequels available – Grace Burrowes/Windham Series and Julia Quinn/Bridgerton Series – but I’ve always preferred to spend my money on something else.
I guess I’m a non-prequel kind of gal. A couple of my favorite authors actually have some prequels available – Grace Burrowes/Windham Series and Julia Quinn/Bridgerton Series – but I’ve always preferred to spend my money on something else.
I guess I’m a non-prequel kind of gal. A couple of my favorite authors actually have some prequels available – Grace Burrowes/Windham Series and Julia Quinn/Bridgerton Series – but I’ve always preferred to spend my money on something else.
I can take them or leave them. However, having said that a prequel to The Winter Sea is right up my alley. I really loved that book and it will be great to see how the prequel goes. Otherwise I would have to really really love a book before I’d bother reading what went before. Sometimes knowing and imaging a character and then reading about them before you knew them can take the shine off a bit. Each to their own I guess.
I can take them or leave them. However, having said that a prequel to The Winter Sea is right up my alley. I really loved that book and it will be great to see how the prequel goes. Otherwise I would have to really really love a book before I’d bother reading what went before. Sometimes knowing and imaging a character and then reading about them before you knew them can take the shine off a bit. Each to their own I guess.
I can take them or leave them. However, having said that a prequel to The Winter Sea is right up my alley. I really loved that book and it will be great to see how the prequel goes. Otherwise I would have to really really love a book before I’d bother reading what went before. Sometimes knowing and imaging a character and then reading about them before you knew them can take the shine off a bit. Each to their own I guess.
I can take them or leave them. However, having said that a prequel to The Winter Sea is right up my alley. I really loved that book and it will be great to see how the prequel goes. Otherwise I would have to really really love a book before I’d bother reading what went before. Sometimes knowing and imaging a character and then reading about them before you knew them can take the shine off a bit. Each to their own I guess.
I can take them or leave them. However, having said that a prequel to The Winter Sea is right up my alley. I really loved that book and it will be great to see how the prequel goes. Otherwise I would have to really really love a book before I’d bother reading what went before. Sometimes knowing and imaging a character and then reading about them before you knew them can take the shine off a bit. Each to their own I guess.
Like most other books that I read,WHEN THEY work, prequels are great.! The children and I never knew we needed “The Magician’s Nephew” UNTIL we read it.
Stephanie Laurens wrote a stand-alone “Captain Jack’s Lady”. Then she added Jack and Kitty Herndon as characters in the Bastion Club series. I was calling it a prequel before the publisher’s did. It’s now your usual type of prequel, but it fits into the Bastian Club series in just that way.
In her Valdemar fantasy series, Mercedes Lackey sometimes writes a trilogy that fills in part of the history of that nation of of the world of Velgarth. All of these “insertions” work, so yes, they are needed and I love them.
On the other hand, some aren’t necessary. I can’t give examples because I don’t remember those books. Not necessary — not remembered, not reread.
Like most other books that I read,WHEN THEY work, prequels are great.! The children and I never knew we needed “The Magician’s Nephew” UNTIL we read it.
Stephanie Laurens wrote a stand-alone “Captain Jack’s Lady”. Then she added Jack and Kitty Herndon as characters in the Bastion Club series. I was calling it a prequel before the publisher’s did. It’s now your usual type of prequel, but it fits into the Bastian Club series in just that way.
In her Valdemar fantasy series, Mercedes Lackey sometimes writes a trilogy that fills in part of the history of that nation of of the world of Velgarth. All of these “insertions” work, so yes, they are needed and I love them.
On the other hand, some aren’t necessary. I can’t give examples because I don’t remember those books. Not necessary — not remembered, not reread.
Like most other books that I read,WHEN THEY work, prequels are great.! The children and I never knew we needed “The Magician’s Nephew” UNTIL we read it.
Stephanie Laurens wrote a stand-alone “Captain Jack’s Lady”. Then she added Jack and Kitty Herndon as characters in the Bastion Club series. I was calling it a prequel before the publisher’s did. It’s now your usual type of prequel, but it fits into the Bastian Club series in just that way.
In her Valdemar fantasy series, Mercedes Lackey sometimes writes a trilogy that fills in part of the history of that nation of of the world of Velgarth. All of these “insertions” work, so yes, they are needed and I love them.
On the other hand, some aren’t necessary. I can’t give examples because I don’t remember those books. Not necessary — not remembered, not reread.
Like most other books that I read,WHEN THEY work, prequels are great.! The children and I never knew we needed “The Magician’s Nephew” UNTIL we read it.
Stephanie Laurens wrote a stand-alone “Captain Jack’s Lady”. Then she added Jack and Kitty Herndon as characters in the Bastion Club series. I was calling it a prequel before the publisher’s did. It’s now your usual type of prequel, but it fits into the Bastian Club series in just that way.
In her Valdemar fantasy series, Mercedes Lackey sometimes writes a trilogy that fills in part of the history of that nation of of the world of Velgarth. All of these “insertions” work, so yes, they are needed and I love them.
On the other hand, some aren’t necessary. I can’t give examples because I don’t remember those books. Not necessary — not remembered, not reread.
Like most other books that I read,WHEN THEY work, prequels are great.! The children and I never knew we needed “The Magician’s Nephew” UNTIL we read it.
Stephanie Laurens wrote a stand-alone “Captain Jack’s Lady”. Then she added Jack and Kitty Herndon as characters in the Bastion Club series. I was calling it a prequel before the publisher’s did. It’s now your usual type of prequel, but it fits into the Bastian Club series in just that way.
In her Valdemar fantasy series, Mercedes Lackey sometimes writes a trilogy that fills in part of the history of that nation of of the world of Velgarth. All of these “insertions” work, so yes, they are needed and I love them.
On the other hand, some aren’t necessary. I can’t give examples because I don’t remember those books. Not necessary — not remembered, not reread.
Lila (by Marilynne Robinson) is a prequel to Gilead. I loved Gilead, and didn’t enjoy the prequel as much, but it was really interesting to see the characters from another viewpoint.
A book I loved, and it might be partly because of when I read it – and I’m not sure if it even counts – is Young Tom by Forrest Reid.
(First book I read after my dad died, bought because his name was Tom, and it is set in N Ireland where we live.)
It’s the third book in a trilogy, but the first chronologically – but I don’t know if the author always planned to write the story backwards, or if he wrote the first and then was seized by a desire to write two prequels.
At the time I read it, there was an online discussion of Chekhov’s gun: “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
This book, read in isolation, disproved that dictum for me: it’s a book with several prominently displayed guns that never go off. (I assume Reid had already fired them in the other two books.) And yet, it was sort of perfect, because that’s what life is like: sometimes there is no resolution. It was a very gentle read. (A squirrel dies: that’s it.)
So I don’t know if it was written as a prequel, and I myself didn’t read it as a prequel: but it was exactly the right book for that moment in time, and I remember it fondly.
Lila (by Marilynne Robinson) is a prequel to Gilead. I loved Gilead, and didn’t enjoy the prequel as much, but it was really interesting to see the characters from another viewpoint.
A book I loved, and it might be partly because of when I read it – and I’m not sure if it even counts – is Young Tom by Forrest Reid.
(First book I read after my dad died, bought because his name was Tom, and it is set in N Ireland where we live.)
It’s the third book in a trilogy, but the first chronologically – but I don’t know if the author always planned to write the story backwards, or if he wrote the first and then was seized by a desire to write two prequels.
At the time I read it, there was an online discussion of Chekhov’s gun: “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
This book, read in isolation, disproved that dictum for me: it’s a book with several prominently displayed guns that never go off. (I assume Reid had already fired them in the other two books.) And yet, it was sort of perfect, because that’s what life is like: sometimes there is no resolution. It was a very gentle read. (A squirrel dies: that’s it.)
So I don’t know if it was written as a prequel, and I myself didn’t read it as a prequel: but it was exactly the right book for that moment in time, and I remember it fondly.
Lila (by Marilynne Robinson) is a prequel to Gilead. I loved Gilead, and didn’t enjoy the prequel as much, but it was really interesting to see the characters from another viewpoint.
A book I loved, and it might be partly because of when I read it – and I’m not sure if it even counts – is Young Tom by Forrest Reid.
(First book I read after my dad died, bought because his name was Tom, and it is set in N Ireland where we live.)
It’s the third book in a trilogy, but the first chronologically – but I don’t know if the author always planned to write the story backwards, or if he wrote the first and then was seized by a desire to write two prequels.
At the time I read it, there was an online discussion of Chekhov’s gun: “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
This book, read in isolation, disproved that dictum for me: it’s a book with several prominently displayed guns that never go off. (I assume Reid had already fired them in the other two books.) And yet, it was sort of perfect, because that’s what life is like: sometimes there is no resolution. It was a very gentle read. (A squirrel dies: that’s it.)
So I don’t know if it was written as a prequel, and I myself didn’t read it as a prequel: but it was exactly the right book for that moment in time, and I remember it fondly.
Lila (by Marilynne Robinson) is a prequel to Gilead. I loved Gilead, and didn’t enjoy the prequel as much, but it was really interesting to see the characters from another viewpoint.
A book I loved, and it might be partly because of when I read it – and I’m not sure if it even counts – is Young Tom by Forrest Reid.
(First book I read after my dad died, bought because his name was Tom, and it is set in N Ireland where we live.)
It’s the third book in a trilogy, but the first chronologically – but I don’t know if the author always planned to write the story backwards, or if he wrote the first and then was seized by a desire to write two prequels.
At the time I read it, there was an online discussion of Chekhov’s gun: “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
This book, read in isolation, disproved that dictum for me: it’s a book with several prominently displayed guns that never go off. (I assume Reid had already fired them in the other two books.) And yet, it was sort of perfect, because that’s what life is like: sometimes there is no resolution. It was a very gentle read. (A squirrel dies: that’s it.)
So I don’t know if it was written as a prequel, and I myself didn’t read it as a prequel: but it was exactly the right book for that moment in time, and I remember it fondly.
Lila (by Marilynne Robinson) is a prequel to Gilead. I loved Gilead, and didn’t enjoy the prequel as much, but it was really interesting to see the characters from another viewpoint.
A book I loved, and it might be partly because of when I read it – and I’m not sure if it even counts – is Young Tom by Forrest Reid.
(First book I read after my dad died, bought because his name was Tom, and it is set in N Ireland where we live.)
It’s the third book in a trilogy, but the first chronologically – but I don’t know if the author always planned to write the story backwards, or if he wrote the first and then was seized by a desire to write two prequels.
At the time I read it, there was an online discussion of Chekhov’s gun: “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
This book, read in isolation, disproved that dictum for me: it’s a book with several prominently displayed guns that never go off. (I assume Reid had already fired them in the other two books.) And yet, it was sort of perfect, because that’s what life is like: sometimes there is no resolution. It was a very gentle read. (A squirrel dies: that’s it.)
So I don’t know if it was written as a prequel, and I myself didn’t read it as a prequel: but it was exactly the right book for that moment in time, and I remember it fondly.
I’ve read a number of prequels — not thatI can recall any of the titles, off-hand — and really, if the writing is good enough, and the story is enjoyable, I don’t care when it comes.
This isn’t a book prequel but a TV one: I’m currently watching ENDEAVOUR, which is a prequel series about the early days of MORSE, the TV detective. There was a sequel to Morse, called LEWIS, which I really enjoyed, and I’m enjoying ENDEAVOUR just as much.
I’ve read a number of prequels — not thatI can recall any of the titles, off-hand — and really, if the writing is good enough, and the story is enjoyable, I don’t care when it comes.
This isn’t a book prequel but a TV one: I’m currently watching ENDEAVOUR, which is a prequel series about the early days of MORSE, the TV detective. There was a sequel to Morse, called LEWIS, which I really enjoyed, and I’m enjoying ENDEAVOUR just as much.
I’ve read a number of prequels — not thatI can recall any of the titles, off-hand — and really, if the writing is good enough, and the story is enjoyable, I don’t care when it comes.
This isn’t a book prequel but a TV one: I’m currently watching ENDEAVOUR, which is a prequel series about the early days of MORSE, the TV detective. There was a sequel to Morse, called LEWIS, which I really enjoyed, and I’m enjoying ENDEAVOUR just as much.
I’ve read a number of prequels — not thatI can recall any of the titles, off-hand — and really, if the writing is good enough, and the story is enjoyable, I don’t care when it comes.
This isn’t a book prequel but a TV one: I’m currently watching ENDEAVOUR, which is a prequel series about the early days of MORSE, the TV detective. There was a sequel to Morse, called LEWIS, which I really enjoyed, and I’m enjoying ENDEAVOUR just as much.
I’ve read a number of prequels — not thatI can recall any of the titles, off-hand — and really, if the writing is good enough, and the story is enjoyable, I don’t care when it comes.
This isn’t a book prequel but a TV one: I’m currently watching ENDEAVOUR, which is a prequel series about the early days of MORSE, the TV detective. There was a sequel to Morse, called LEWIS, which I really enjoyed, and I’m enjoying ENDEAVOUR just as much.
I have read and loved the complete Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn but haven’t yet started the prequel series (Rokesbys). When a prequel runs to a series I’m not too sure what the name prequel implies anymore! Quinn is such a wonderful writer however that I will get the new series when/if it comes out in audio, but not because of the prequel nature.
‘The Vanished Days’ sounds interesting though!
I have read and loved the complete Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn but haven’t yet started the prequel series (Rokesbys). When a prequel runs to a series I’m not too sure what the name prequel implies anymore! Quinn is such a wonderful writer however that I will get the new series when/if it comes out in audio, but not because of the prequel nature.
‘The Vanished Days’ sounds interesting though!
I have read and loved the complete Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn but haven’t yet started the prequel series (Rokesbys). When a prequel runs to a series I’m not too sure what the name prequel implies anymore! Quinn is such a wonderful writer however that I will get the new series when/if it comes out in audio, but not because of the prequel nature.
‘The Vanished Days’ sounds interesting though!
I have read and loved the complete Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn but haven’t yet started the prequel series (Rokesbys). When a prequel runs to a series I’m not too sure what the name prequel implies anymore! Quinn is such a wonderful writer however that I will get the new series when/if it comes out in audio, but not because of the prequel nature.
‘The Vanished Days’ sounds interesting though!
I have read and loved the complete Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn but haven’t yet started the prequel series (Rokesbys). When a prequel runs to a series I’m not too sure what the name prequel implies anymore! Quinn is such a wonderful writer however that I will get the new series when/if it comes out in audio, but not because of the prequel nature.
‘The Vanished Days’ sounds interesting though!
It’s not quite the same thing, but a few of my favourite books have a series of flashbacks, so we gradually learn how the present conflict came to be. I really like that format when it’s done well.
I like prequels, but can’t remember reading that many of them.
It’s not quite the same thing, but a few of my favourite books have a series of flashbacks, so we gradually learn how the present conflict came to be. I really like that format when it’s done well.
I like prequels, but can’t remember reading that many of them.
It’s not quite the same thing, but a few of my favourite books have a series of flashbacks, so we gradually learn how the present conflict came to be. I really like that format when it’s done well.
I like prequels, but can’t remember reading that many of them.
It’s not quite the same thing, but a few of my favourite books have a series of flashbacks, so we gradually learn how the present conflict came to be. I really like that format when it’s done well.
I like prequels, but can’t remember reading that many of them.
It’s not quite the same thing, but a few of my favourite books have a series of flashbacks, so we gradually learn how the present conflict came to be. I really like that format when it’s done well.
I like prequels, but can’t remember reading that many of them.
Prequels CAN work, but often don’t. Think Star Wars I, II, and III. No, don’t think about them!!!!
Prequels CAN work, but often don’t. Think Star Wars I, II, and III. No, don’t think about them!!!!
Prequels CAN work, but often don’t. Think Star Wars I, II, and III. No, don’t think about them!!!!
Prequels CAN work, but often don’t. Think Star Wars I, II, and III. No, don’t think about them!!!!
Prequels CAN work, but often don’t. Think Star Wars I, II, and III. No, don’t think about them!!!!
I recently read Philip Pullmans’s new book, “The Book of Dust”. He calls it a continuation of his Dark Materials. It is a prequel about the birth of Lyra and the events surrounding it. I really enjoyed a glimpse into the beginning of this story.
I recently read “The Courtship of Edward Gardiner” by Nicole Clarkston. This was a fun creation to read about Darcy and Elizabeth meeting as children.
Robert Jordan wrote a prequel somewhere in the middle of the Wheel of Time series. I liked reading about the character, Lan.
In general I like prequels because it gives me more depth into the characters and why they were motivated to be as they are later on in a series.
I recently read Philip Pullmans’s new book, “The Book of Dust”. He calls it a continuation of his Dark Materials. It is a prequel about the birth of Lyra and the events surrounding it. I really enjoyed a glimpse into the beginning of this story.
I recently read “The Courtship of Edward Gardiner” by Nicole Clarkston. This was a fun creation to read about Darcy and Elizabeth meeting as children.
Robert Jordan wrote a prequel somewhere in the middle of the Wheel of Time series. I liked reading about the character, Lan.
In general I like prequels because it gives me more depth into the characters and why they were motivated to be as they are later on in a series.
I recently read Philip Pullmans’s new book, “The Book of Dust”. He calls it a continuation of his Dark Materials. It is a prequel about the birth of Lyra and the events surrounding it. I really enjoyed a glimpse into the beginning of this story.
I recently read “The Courtship of Edward Gardiner” by Nicole Clarkston. This was a fun creation to read about Darcy and Elizabeth meeting as children.
Robert Jordan wrote a prequel somewhere in the middle of the Wheel of Time series. I liked reading about the character, Lan.
In general I like prequels because it gives me more depth into the characters and why they were motivated to be as they are later on in a series.
I recently read Philip Pullmans’s new book, “The Book of Dust”. He calls it a continuation of his Dark Materials. It is a prequel about the birth of Lyra and the events surrounding it. I really enjoyed a glimpse into the beginning of this story.
I recently read “The Courtship of Edward Gardiner” by Nicole Clarkston. This was a fun creation to read about Darcy and Elizabeth meeting as children.
Robert Jordan wrote a prequel somewhere in the middle of the Wheel of Time series. I liked reading about the character, Lan.
In general I like prequels because it gives me more depth into the characters and why they were motivated to be as they are later on in a series.
I recently read Philip Pullmans’s new book, “The Book of Dust”. He calls it a continuation of his Dark Materials. It is a prequel about the birth of Lyra and the events surrounding it. I really enjoyed a glimpse into the beginning of this story.
I recently read “The Courtship of Edward Gardiner” by Nicole Clarkston. This was a fun creation to read about Darcy and Elizabeth meeting as children.
Robert Jordan wrote a prequel somewhere in the middle of the Wheel of Time series. I liked reading about the character, Lan.
In general I like prequels because it gives me more depth into the characters and why they were motivated to be as they are later on in a series.
I like prequels to a point. If a book is written, read and much discussed with “what the heck happened before…?”, a prequel is lovely and much appreciated. I’ve read some that just basically was just a waste of paper. On the other hand, when it is a book (or books) that I love and it gives backstory and maybe even adds another layer of understanding to that which comes after, it can be fun and very enjoyable. Clear as mud? LOL I guess the short answer is, it depends. With all that said, a prequel to “Winter Sea” is definitely going on the watch list. I still want just one more chapter on Mariana…LOL yeah, yeah, we’ve discussed this. 😉
I like prequels to a point. If a book is written, read and much discussed with “what the heck happened before…?”, a prequel is lovely and much appreciated. I’ve read some that just basically was just a waste of paper. On the other hand, when it is a book (or books) that I love and it gives backstory and maybe even adds another layer of understanding to that which comes after, it can be fun and very enjoyable. Clear as mud? LOL I guess the short answer is, it depends. With all that said, a prequel to “Winter Sea” is definitely going on the watch list. I still want just one more chapter on Mariana…LOL yeah, yeah, we’ve discussed this. 😉
I like prequels to a point. If a book is written, read and much discussed with “what the heck happened before…?”, a prequel is lovely and much appreciated. I’ve read some that just basically was just a waste of paper. On the other hand, when it is a book (or books) that I love and it gives backstory and maybe even adds another layer of understanding to that which comes after, it can be fun and very enjoyable. Clear as mud? LOL I guess the short answer is, it depends. With all that said, a prequel to “Winter Sea” is definitely going on the watch list. I still want just one more chapter on Mariana…LOL yeah, yeah, we’ve discussed this. 😉
I like prequels to a point. If a book is written, read and much discussed with “what the heck happened before…?”, a prequel is lovely and much appreciated. I’ve read some that just basically was just a waste of paper. On the other hand, when it is a book (or books) that I love and it gives backstory and maybe even adds another layer of understanding to that which comes after, it can be fun and very enjoyable. Clear as mud? LOL I guess the short answer is, it depends. With all that said, a prequel to “Winter Sea” is definitely going on the watch list. I still want just one more chapter on Mariana…LOL yeah, yeah, we’ve discussed this. 😉
I like prequels to a point. If a book is written, read and much discussed with “what the heck happened before…?”, a prequel is lovely and much appreciated. I’ve read some that just basically was just a waste of paper. On the other hand, when it is a book (or books) that I love and it gives backstory and maybe even adds another layer of understanding to that which comes after, it can be fun and very enjoyable. Clear as mud? LOL I guess the short answer is, it depends. With all that said, a prequel to “Winter Sea” is definitely going on the watch list. I still want just one more chapter on Mariana…LOL yeah, yeah, we’ve discussed this. 😉
I really recoil from prequels, even the well written ones. I don’t like the feeling that the future is decided and the characters’ choices have all been made and their options closed off before the book opens.
Yet I will happily re-read books I love, where I know the ending, sometimes word for word. But a prequel? No.
Go figure.
I really recoil from prequels, even the well written ones. I don’t like the feeling that the future is decided and the characters’ choices have all been made and their options closed off before the book opens.
Yet I will happily re-read books I love, where I know the ending, sometimes word for word. But a prequel? No.
Go figure.
I really recoil from prequels, even the well written ones. I don’t like the feeling that the future is decided and the characters’ choices have all been made and their options closed off before the book opens.
Yet I will happily re-read books I love, where I know the ending, sometimes word for word. But a prequel? No.
Go figure.
I really recoil from prequels, even the well written ones. I don’t like the feeling that the future is decided and the characters’ choices have all been made and their options closed off before the book opens.
Yet I will happily re-read books I love, where I know the ending, sometimes word for word. But a prequel? No.
Go figure.
I really recoil from prequels, even the well written ones. I don’t like the feeling that the future is decided and the characters’ choices have all been made and their options closed off before the book opens.
Yet I will happily re-read books I love, where I know the ending, sometimes word for word. But a prequel? No.
Go figure.
I have no objection to a prequel; however, some work while others don’t. Of course, the same is true of books.
I have no objection to a prequel; however, some work while others don’t. Of course, the same is true of books.
I have no objection to a prequel; however, some work while others don’t. Of course, the same is true of books.
I have no objection to a prequel; however, some work while others don’t. Of course, the same is true of books.
I have no objection to a prequel; however, some work while others don’t. Of course, the same is true of books.