So, I've been catching up on the internet and was on RM's blog. In her blog I learned she has the official page count for Last Sacrifice . The total comes out to 600 pages!
I was so excited to read that. Are you all satisfied with that?

WHAT? Is it really that much? That's great!


Can you post the link to her blog here?

Seeing how it was suppose to be 496 pages, I'm excited for the extra hundred pages. Yey!

This is the quote from Richelle's blog

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In other news, I'll have some cool info soon for people in Toronto (hopefully early next week), so stay tuned. For news that everyone can enjoy, Last Sacrifice has been typeset, which is when my publisher converts it from my Word document to formatted "book-sized" pages. And how many pages has it come out to? 600! That's the longest in the series so far, clocking in at 153,000 words, for those who track word count. Good times.

Here's the link to her blog.

http://blue-succubus.livejournal.com/

I'm super excited. I'm already thinking of which books to chuck in my closet and out of my shelf to make room for a 600 page book. Lol .

153,000 words!!! That's loads of words for one book, and 600 pages!! Happy reading is all I can say

I hope my copy gets delivered in the morning then I might just be able to finish it in a day. At the same time I want to go slowly because its the last one.

I get worried about long books. I mean, I'm excited and happy that LS is going to be so long, but at the same time it always makes me wonder if the author has too much to say in one book or if it'll be dragged out or something. I have faith in Richelle, but at the same time I don't want it to be one of those books that cold have been resolved earlier or has too much for a final book.

Or is an unecessary extentsion ie Breaking Dawn.

I can run myself sick with worrying about the book being dragged out because of the 600 page count. I personally hate the snow ball effect...the story goes at a slow set pace and then everything dramatic happens at the end. Then again, i hate when authors build up all the anticaption and then have an anti-climatic ending.I have my concerns but I refuse to let them come forth. I'm just letting the excitement for the book in general take over and put my faith in RM's awesome writing/storying telling. She hasn't let me down yet and i don't expect to be.

LOL at skipping over Jacob's part of BD. I actually told people read book 1 ( bella's first part) and book 2( jacob's part) and then stop reading. I really hated the ending of BD i felt it was anti-climatic. lol.

I didn't want it to sound like I was only using BD as an example though...sure it's one of the more recent ones, and I guess page count doesn't really matter too much. Like Tasha said, the snowball effect can go either way...sometimes its good and sometimes not.
One of my fave authors is Tamora Pierce, and while her earlier books are fairly small, she's started writing longer ones after the HP books had success being big books. And I've NEVER been bored or disappointed in them. I love them. I'm reading on at the moment which is 596 pages long...and I don't think there's a problem with it. But it's also a stand-alone book (sort of...it is within a series, but the time period makes it by itself) so the story has to develop a bit more and there's a chance for longer plot. But I worry with series books getting bigger all the time, that there's too much happening, especially when it's the final book in the series. HP7 wasn't as big as 5 or 6. It concluded everything really well.
I guess what I'm worried about most is that too much is being slotted into the final book.