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I can think of one that is the antithesis of this, but not a series I would recommend! Greta's Dream was awful, Greta's Decision was actually approaching acceptability (I still do not recommend it), and then the third book, Greta's Victory, was the biggest, ugliest train-wreck of a book I have ever read! :D

I suspect that in this case, book 1 was done without much effort, and as it sold well, a sequel was requested. The sequel was better than the first, so naturally they'd have insisted on a third - you can literally see that the author wanted to write about something else, somewhere entirely different, and just decided to do that and bodge it back within the framework of the first two (I also don't think he planned the trilogy out ahead of time, at all! All sorts of weird mistakes, like losing track of characters who were key to the plot of the previous book - I don't think he reread the prequels before writing the subsequent book!). :p

Anyway, just an interesting anomaly that probably no one would stumble upon otherwise (again, I do not recommend these books!). ;)

Yeah, that sadly happens a lot in publishing. Thanks for the tip.

Chara's Craftsations wrote: "Yeah, that sadly happens a lot in publishing. Thanks for the tip."

It was SO aggravating! Greta's coworker in series 2, a fellow nursemaid or whatever (something very non-threatening to conformist Christian audiences in the 1960s), has a botched suicide attempt and an interesting backstory (the whole series is all about Christian redemption, etc. Again, I don't recommend it). By the end of that book, she's paired off with Greta's brother (HEA).

At the start of book 3, we see that they were married and have a little baby boy now (awww), mentioned in the opening paragraph. And then later in the book, Greta's former coworker comes to work in her place... it's the coworker who has since become her sister-in-law, Mrs. So-and-so with an infant son, living with her brother in his home country of Switzerland. So how is she also still working in the Black Forest of Germany, and able to come and relieve Greta for a few weeks?! :S I think the author just forgot the entire plotline of book 2! And he flipped back, saw the first name of her coworker and ran with it. How could he forget that this was the character whose tragic circumstances formed the entirety of the main plot of book 2?!

Incredible. :p

Thanks for this list, Chara! I will be keeping my eye out for one that fits. :)