The 6 Sacred Stones

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but with one this bad, I should have known better. It's not a horrible cover, but it just doesn't say anything about the book. Which is too bad, because I should never have read this novel.

Normally, I like Matthew Reilly. As I said before, his books are fun if somewhat cheesy. But this time he did the unforgivable - he had a cliffhanger ending. If there is anything I despise in my readings, it is the unannounced multi-part story. If it is planned, I am just as likely to never read one as I am to wait until the whole thing is over and read it in one swoop. However, unannounced endings like this just turn me off the whole plot and we'll see if I pick up the next one.

The last book I read with this problem was GHOST ROAD BLUES by Jonathan Marberry. I couldn't tell you the names of the sequels or if they have seen print yet.

This is not to say that books cannot be multi-part or have cliffhanger endings, but what I hate is the need to have to read the next book to get a resolution. At least I got this from my library and didn't pay 25 bucks to learn that I have to pay another 25 a year from now.

I'll take a pass on finishing the series for now though. There are too many books out there to read to be forced to wait for the conclusion of the story.