Thoughts
Sorry for all the Sanderson posting. He’s the only author that I read in middle school and now, but that’s just because he’s prolific,
including across age groups. He’s not the author I most want to post about. I want to continue my insane train of thought on Brandon Mull’s obsession with wiping people’s minds, but Mull is writing like bad Fablehaven fan fiction at this point. Might check out the third Candy Shop War at some point.
I wonder if any author has successfully done a spin-off series with the original characters. I think Percy Jackson does eventually, once Percy and Annabeth are reunited, Riordan successfully writes them as a teenage couple for a couple books. I was going to say, the seventh Star Wars is not bad in this regard. Dragon Watch fails though. Seth and Kendra are so flat in that book. I don’t think he succeeds in writing a more mature version of the same characters, but maybe I’m being too harsh.