I was wondering what everyone's thoughts on novellas (that are part of a series) are? Personally, when I find a new series to look into, I've noticed my brain automatically just filters out any books with a .5 - I use Goodreads to see the order of books and how many there are - and look for the main books. I think I might read a novella if I LOVED the main story, but whether they follow side characters (even if they're my favourite) or elaborate on the main, I'm just not typically interested. Like, I don't feel a NEED to read them.

Do you always read them? Do you skip? Depends?

While browsing the recommendation sections of a few books recently I noticed that a lot of the time the recommendations include books further into the series instead of or more so than other books/series with a similar vibe and I'm curious about the community sentiment towards that.

Personally I feel like the recs should be more for those instead of just more from the same series, as a reader will usually be aware that the next books exists and especially for long series actual new recommendations get buried a bit. On other platforms I use recommendations to find more books I will probably enjoy after I have finished a series and initially expected to find the same here.

I believe it's probably an issue with how you currently can't effectively look at all books in a series directly from one book in it, which will probably get implemented better in the future.

But how does everyone else feel about that? Please let me know your thoughts. 🫶🏼

Hello 👋🏽 Salut 👋🏽

Are there any French readers or speakers ? I know this platform is mostly based in the U.S., but it would be so fun to connect with other francophone readers 🤩

Alors, dis-moi quel est ton roman francophone préféré ? Le livre que tu veux toujours recommander, mais que tu as pas la chance parce que tu connais juste des lecteurs anglophones?