This series starts off great but quickly becomes a shallow mess of Deus Ex Machina plots. Morin seems to have approached each of these books as if he was doing homework from a creative writing class each based on horrible tropes. Long drawn out plots are suddenly ended in unsatisfactory ways because the ending demands it. Any and all character development is waved away, Every time a character is forced to face their flaws and addictions they find they are actually better off for having those crippling addictions and the story just somehow finds a way to make those addictions unending and the characters better for it. No lesson is ever learned properly, things either magically fall into place or the plot just works around them so that the big problems don’t actually matter in the end. This is yet another series that suffers from a lack of editorial input
