The first 4 books are frustrating. I feel like, in the ~2 yr. time span that is covered, there is very little growth in the characters. Especially Skylar. She still makes bad decisions and isn’t very strong or powerful. Her reliance on everyone else is irritating, and the situation with Quell is just annoying and doesn’t really lend anything interesting to the story.
I’m not a fan of this narrator. Like another series I listen to that she narrates, I have to listen with the audio sped up 1.25x because she is so slow and drawn out. There is no inflection in her voice, even during scenes that should involved a lot of emotion and/or anguish. Completely matter of fact and passionless. Everyone’s voices sounds the same, except Claudia – who she had ascribed a horribly annoying voice to that is so far from a South African accent that I don’t know why she bothered trying.
Overall, it’s just meh. Not sure if I will continue the series.