Book Series That Start Off Amazing and Turn Horrible

Also know as, amazing book series in which the author writes more books for money.

Examples:

House Of Night by Kristen and P.C Cast: The House of Night seriously phenomenal, basically about your average teenage girl, who gets turned into a vampire and has no choice but to go to a Vampire boarding school. Now, HoN is about a slut that gets turned into a vampire, has control over the entire world and some shit about other world, magical bulls and fallen angels. Blah.

Actually, the House of Night series was a huge favorite of mine for a long time. I loved Stark, he's still one of my favorite book characters, but let's be real, the mother-daughter writting duo should have stopped at Tempted. The books started going down hill in that one, some would say they should have stopped at Hunter. Maybe its just me, but in Tempted-Awakened, I skipped Stevie Rae's parts, mostly.

I started Destined, made it to page twenty maybe, probably less. I won't be reading Hidden, the next two books, and I haven't read any of the novels.

The Immortals by Alyson Noel: Let's see, I got the first book of the series, Evermore in 2009. It was amazing! I read it in one day! I then read the sequel, Blue Moon, a few days later (also pretty amazing) then waited a month or so for Shadowland, which was good, not amazing like the first two, but still good.

Then, I waiting like, eight months, for the fourth book in the series, Dark Flame to come out. I think I got halfway. I didn't read the following novels, Nightstar and Everlasting, and never will.

The Vampire Diaries by L.J Smith: L.J Smith is a brill author! I admire her very much, and have read most of her work.

The first thing I read by her was The Vampire Diaries. It left me speechless, and I was so excited when they announced they might be making a T.V show (which was a fail).

The Awakening, The Struggle, and The Fury are the original three books, and Dark Reunion was added a year later. They were later published as two books, The Awakening and The Struggle as one and The Fury and Dark Reunion as another (funny story, I read The Fury and Dark Reunion first so I was confused as hell).

More than a decade later, The Return: Nightfall was published, which I eagerly bought the day it came out.

It took me a very long time to finish, maybe three or four weeks. I was confused reading it and it didn't grab my attention like the others. I didn't read the following two: Shadow Souls and Midnight.

Then, a whole other series was added: The Hunter Trilogy, which I haven't looked upon yet since its written by a ghost-writer.

If you don't know what a ghost write is (I didn't until recently) here is the definition:

 A ghostwriter is a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person...Ghostwriters are also hired to write fiction in the style of an existing author, often as a way of increasing the number of books that can be published by a popular author (e.g., Tom Clancy, James Patterson). Ghostwriters will often spend a period from several months to a full year researching, writing, and editing nonfiction works for a client, and they are paid either per page, with a flat fee, or a percentage of the royalties of the sales, or some combination thereof. The ghostwriter is sometimes acknowledged by the author or publisher for his or her writing services.-wikipedia

So basically a ghost writer is a person hire to write a book in the same styles as an author,  the author usually takes full credit.

More on L.J Smith: I love her, I really do, but come on, she's writing a fourth book to two or her series, The Forbidden game and Dark Visions (funfact: both of those series are in my top 20 book series) almost 20 years later. As much as I love L.J and those two series, I won't be reading either of the books.

The Secret Circle also has four books added to L.J's original series, which is written by Aubrey Clark.

Maximum Ride by James Patterson: The first three books (which are refereed to as The Fugitives) are The Angel Experiment, School's Out --Forever, and Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, are basically about a group of six kids -Max, Fang, Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge and Angel- whole are all 2% bird.

I was really iffy when I bought the first book, but god it was AMAZING. Then, for Christmas 2009 I got books School's Out Forever - Max. Not gonna lie, I found where my mom hide them and read all the books before x-mas.

The Final Warning and beyond, are literally a completely different book series. About saving the world rather than saving yourself.    

Despite everything, I will be reading Nevermore whenever it comes out. Edit: Apparently it came out exactly a week ago. opps. I'll get to that soon then.

But, there is some author's that did it right, Cassandra Clare and the Mortal Instruments for example. She originally published a trilogy, then added two more, with one on the way.

Or: The Hunger Games, The Dark Devine, The Wolves of Mercy Falls, all amazing with no added filler sequels!

This is a rant, lol. But yeah, honestly, if I don't like it, I should just ignore the books, not hate on them or anything.