I've known many women who read all of the books in a series. Karen Kingsbury is known for writing book series with five to eight books in them. Series typically drive me crazy because they leave me hanging at the end of the book and I have to wait for the next one. That happened to me with the Cedar Keys novels. The books were released so far apart that I couldn't remember what had happened in the other books and who was who. It was quite frustrating for me. When Jen Turano began her series of books that began with A Change of Fortune , I wondered how the series would go. The first one was a funny melodrama and I had high hopes that this would be a fun, lighthearted series to read. The first book turned out, in my opinion to be the best one of the series. The others seemed to all follow the same kind of formula revolving around the same families (which I did like), which seemed to be entirely (entirely!) predictable. I misse...