Yon Cassius hath a lean and hungery look

I think too much, and sometimes it spoils my fun. I've spent the last few days with my nose in a series of books, and they weren't exactly bad, but... By the time I was done with book two I had a prediction as to the plot of the third, and by halfway through the third I had gone from generalities to a detailed outline of the rest. I wasn't 100% on my predictions, but I didn't miss anything major.

I still enjoyed reading them, but it was like cotton candy or popcorn. All air and flavor and very little to stick with you when you're done. Just to make sure I'm not misunderstood, I'm not talking about a lack of plot twists here. The simplest, most basic of plots would work just as well as long as I'm engrossed enough in the story that I don't bother predicting. And by now there are very few twist I wouldn't have either read or seen before, so to confound me if my attention has wandered enough to be looking would require a lack of foreshadowing that would make it a bad book.

Interestingly, I was pointed in the direction of this series by a positive comment about it from an author whose works do achieve the requisite level of immersion in me. A comment, I should add, on their personal webpage, not a cover blurb. One mans trash, I guess, and all that.