Let's Discuss: Duology Reading

 

I was at a signing last Saturday where the author was talking about her latest book and how it was the first in a duology and then discussed the pros of duologies! That they are nice, short, but not too short. And you can usually remember what you read a year ago when you pick up the sequel and here I was silently thinking, that's not how my brain rolls unfortunately. Lol.

Duology Reading

When it comes to duologies, I tend to wait to read them until they are completed...and then hopefully work them into my reading queue as soon as that happens, but even that doesn't always happen! Lol. Sometimes it takes the author coming here on tour for me to work them into my reading lineup! But hey, it works!

I feel like waiting to read a duology back to back is more beneficial to my spotty memory. There have bene times where I've started a duology and had to wait for that next book...it didn't go well for my memory! I actually just started the first book in a duology earlier this year, not realizing it was a planned duology. For some reason I thought it was a trilogy...or an unannounced length. But here we are! 

And then there were times in the past where an ARC of the first book in a duology was offered and maybe I was on the fence about the story so I decided why not? And then that was a mistake because I ended up LOVING it and then had to wait EVEN LONGER for the second book to come out. I want to say I was able to read the second one as an ARC too, but it was before my note keeping days so it was still a massive struggle to remember what happened as I likely had a good 50-100 books read since then depending! As I know that was in the days where I worked somewhere where I could read more throughout the day because it wasn't busy.

So nowadays when I know it's a duology I plan to not read read it until the next book comes out! I can't even really say the next year as so far Sabaa Tahir hasn't announced when her sequel comes out and that was almost a year ago. And I remember how BRUTAL her cliffhangers were so I was wisely decided not to read her book right away! Lol. Plus I also feel hesitant because it could spin into a trilogy. You never know. Marissa Meyer's long ago super hero/villain series was meant to be a duology and turned into a trilogy...and I still need to read that one too. I know, it's been HOW LONG and I still need to read after waiting it out! Lol. But they're all so long! I keep picking up long books this year and every time I finish, I'm thinking I need a nice short book, you know, one that's under 500 pages!

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a heifer read every now and then, but not too many back to back and yet I keep doing that! My current read is 500 pages with reallllllllly small font and realllllly small line spacing, so I'll be lucky to get this finished by the end of the week!

But back to the topic on hand, how do you handle reading duologies? Do you wait to binge them back to back? Do you read the first book and dive into the second in the (likely) next year? Do you re-read book 1 before diving into book 2? What's your duology process?