As a rule, I don't like finishing books. After such a long adventure together with the characters, they're like old friends to me. Old friends I must now part with, their story is over and their world closes one final time. The first book I cried reading was Winnie the Pooh because it addressed this very issue in it's final chapter.
Some things help though. Fanfiction for one, be it prequels where it focuses on a single character or a sequal that goes over the normally skipped political upheaval that would come from many adventure book's endings (defeating a god or saving a world, many people's lives would be forever changed). I'm allowed to (as long as it's well written) revisit and once more be with my old friends: the protagonists.
Another thing that helps is books that are tie-in media, like the Guild Wars 2 tie-in books, Ghosts of Ascalon and Edge of Destiny (about which I'm still not sure, after reading both, which one is ment to be read first). Because after going through the effort of creating a lead up stort and a world for it to perpetually exist in I am firm in the knowledge that I can once again see my old friends from a distance as they live their lives and make new stories.
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