After the Honeymoon - BTT

So I recently found something called Booking Through Thursday and decided to try it out and throw my own answer in there. The question for this week is:

Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could they ever lure you back?

I don't think I could say that I feel out of love with an author but I did fall in love with a series. For a while, I was reading a lot of Piers Anthony's work. His Incarnations of Immortality series, along with the Mode and Geodyssey series were fascinating and I enjoyed reading them. In fact, I still would read those books, and am looking forward to reading the most recent installment of the mode series. Around the time I was reading all these other books, someone recommended the Xanth series to me. The first three books (which I later found out have been written with an adult audience in mind) were fine. Anthony had created a great world for his characters and the result was good storytelling with a few puns on the side. As the series progressed, Anthony had found out that young adults and children had been reading the Xanth series so he changed the direction of the books to suit that audience better. In doing so, he packed the books so full of puns that I was unable to appreciate the plot that may have been buried underneath everything else. Everything was a pun and the later books got so "punny," I simply couldn't bear to finish the book, much less pick up another.

As I said, I still like the other books that Anthony has produced but I completely fell out of love with this particular series. Some of my friends continued to read the series and they still (as far as I know) enjoy the books, but I don't think I would ever want to read another of that particular series.