Fantasy with Friends: Series or Standalones

Happy Monday! It’s time for more Fantasy with Friends: as always, the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about fantasy series: Do you currently prefer standalone fantasies or series? Is there a certain number of books that seems like “too much,” whether that means the series feels intimidating to start or just that the author might need to move on to something else? Is there a point at which you worry that a series is just a “cash grab?” At the moment, I definitely lean toward standalones, or loosely-connected series which don’t require that you grab the next book right away in order to find out how the story ends. There’s something very satisfying about knowing the story has reached a happy-ever-after (or miserable-ever-after, though I’m not so keen on that) or at least a happy/miserable-for-now. And you don’t have to worry whether the remainder of the series will ever come out at all, or that the series will get cancelled before it…