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I wasn’t able to come up with many answers for this week’s prompt because just about all of the books I wished had sequels were eventually given them regardless of what I thought of how those series turned out. I’ve been very lucky in that regard.
Let’s see which books I still wish could have sequels. Beware of spoilers for older titles in this post!
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Why: The bleak and underwhelming ending. While I still enjoyed the plot, I was expecting the protagonist to accomplish so much more than he actually did.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Why: Once again, the ending was dark and a let down from what I assumed was going to happen. I also thought that the way it was wrapped up conflicted with the themes in earlier chapters about what it means to be human and whether clones should be given the same human rights as someone who was conceived in a more traditional manner.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Why: I’d love to see how the world continued to be rebuilt after the events of this book. It ended on such a hopeful note.
Ah, Station Eleven is such a good shout! I’d love to read that, too.
I think you’d like it! The TV show was great, too.
I haven’t read any of these, but now I am intrigued!
Here is my post.
I hope you like them if you read them.
Great choices. I agree, let us see the rebuilding and the more positive aspects.
Exactly!
I haven’t read Station Eleven, but apparently I have seen a bit of the TV show. So yeah, I’m definitely with you on that one. Never Let Me Go looks fascinating; I’ll have to give that one a look. A sequel to Fahrenheit 451 would… my memory of that one is that the book is very, very different than the movie, but I could be confusing it with something else. It would need to be handled by somebody who’s really devoted to the original, I think.