I've mostly enjoyed what I've read of the series (Books 1 through 4). But I read those before the fifth book was available on Kindle (and I don't know that I was aware it was coming). My biggest complaint about the series was early on (maybe just the first book), because it felt like there were way too few women. But once we saw their world, and they interacted with each other, I was less worried on that score.
I'll put Book 5 on my to-read list (mostly because I'm currently subscribed to Kindle Unlimited), but based on your reaction (and my own sense of the series as mostly "candy") I won't push it to the top of that list. And since I'm hoping to go on-again off-again with KU (depending on selections of a book club I'm part of), it may still be on the list when the sixth book becomes available.
But I hear you about that contract with the reader. I had a different series which I mostly enjoyed, but which had some "political rants" that felt like they might be the author more than the characters, and at any rate, did not live up to the characters speaking them. (It fit in the story given that one of the central characters was a fictional president of the US.) But then, in the fifth book, not only did that become too much, but he also split his book into two books, based solely on length. Fortunately, I was using my KU subscription so it didn't add to the financial cost for me, but it was still irritating to have a book just end. That man was seriously in need of an editor!
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I'll put Book 5 on my to-read list (mostly because I'm currently subscribed to Kindle Unlimited), but based on your reaction (and my own sense of the series as mostly "candy") I won't push it to the top of that list. And since I'm hoping to go on-again off-again with KU (depending on selections of a book club I'm part of), it may still be on the list when the sixth book becomes available.
But I hear you about that contract with the reader. I had a different series which I mostly enjoyed, but which had some "political rants" that felt like they might be the author more than the characters, and at any rate, did not live up to the characters speaking them. (It fit in the story given that one of the central characters was a fictional president of the US.) But then, in the fifth book, not only did that become too much, but he also split his book into two books, based solely on length. Fortunately, I was using my KU subscription so it didn't add to the financial cost for me, but it was still irritating to have a book just end. That man was seriously in need of an editor!