Do you enjoy seeing cameos from an author’s previous books in a series?
Yes 🙂
Character cameos are one of the reasons I enjoy reading series.
One of the things I don’t like about standalone titles is the feeling that I’ve met a bunch of characters I love and knowing that when I close the book, I’m never going to get to see them again.
So I love to read a series where I know I’ll get some nuggets of knowledge about the previous characters in the series (especially the couples in a romance).
Why?
I love romance novels, but we all know romance novels are about the falling-in-love stage of life. They’re not about the being married and staying married stage of life. Romance series give us a chance to see couples live life – the fun parts and the hard parts – and there are good life lessons in those love stories as well.
What about other genres?
It depends. Some genres encourage series take multiple stories to tell the full tale (e.g. science fiction and fantasy. Some genres feature the same main character in different situations (e.g. thrillers). Other series are centered more about a place, and may or may not have common characters (e.g. Gayle Roper’s excellent Seaside series).
I will read standalone titles. But, given the choice, I’ll always veer towards a series because I like to revisit those old friends aka characters.
