I hope so! This story really means a lot to me! I am happy with the Hell Week trilogy, but I am very personally invested in this series.
And please, please DON'T skip ahead this time! This series is very, very different from the trilogy! Let me explain:
When I started writing Buxom Chronicles, it was a much more ambitious project. Hell Week was originally going to be an ongoing storyline in that magazine. But after discussing it with MTJ, he thought it was a little (okay, a
lot) too ambitious and needed to be more realistic. He pointed out that the Hell Week I had written for the first two issues was already enough to serve as the first part of a novel, so we spun it off as the first volume of Hell Week.
The second volume was supposed to finish Hell Week. However, as it was going on, I realized there was way more material than there should be for the second half of the story. After discussing it with MTJ, he approved turning it into a trilogy. I split the story right before the parents were set to arrive, and to help give more meat to the second volume, cooked up the entirety of Game Night on the fly. The middle was the only place where there was room to add material, after all.
But that's why book 2 thus ends rather abruptly, as it was made to end a chapter, not end the book!
The third volume then turned out to still be too big, so Roxi's entirely plotline never got past the outline stage! But it was otherwise meant to end the story, so the epilogues all did that. But because there were the epilogues, the last chapter didn't need much in resolution.
So to sum up, Hell Week was essentially one story split into three books like The Lord of the Rings (not that I would compare of course!). So each final chapter was a big slew of tickles leading to the next book.
Hell Week Yearbook has each book with a complete start, middle, and end. The reason each is so big is that each book tells the next chapter in the life of Roxi, Diane, etc., but nevertheless has a self-contained aspect to it as well. If it didn't we could have just split the book in two, it is seriously so big that if we did that each half would still be bigger than the last fiction novel MTJ put out! But it's not built that way, if we split it, the story would just awkwardly stop (seriously, I just checked and the book would end in a ridiculous spot!). Likewise, if you skip to the last chapter, you're getting a tickle scene yes, surrounded by the resolution to a lot of the plotlines from the book! All of the development and surprises will be ruined! And you will lose the valuable context that will make that tickle scene even better (IMHO)! Trust me, I've worked really hard to make that journey worthwhile!
Janet is definitely fun! I personally would love to get her on one of those tables! Right now, though, I'm oscillating between two characters who never got it in the trilogy. Margot will play a very memorable role in four scenes in this book, one where she gets a tickling that I would love to be delivering to her personally. The second character was just a cameo in the first volume of Hell Week, Candace, the Beta who managed to get in without being tickled. Turns out she is Roxi's nemesis. She doesn't arrive until the second book, but I savor every moment of inflicting tickling hell upon her. In fact BoundPretties on Patreon drew his interpretation of the character getting tickled for me, I'm kind of infatuated with her. It will be hard restraining myself. Perhaps a special should be "Tarr2k Is Cruel To Candace!" XD