I loved the characters and the story in books 1-3. But, SPOILER ALERT: All but one dies in book 4, so its a whole new story. 4&5 were still very good, but 6 was a flasback to the childhood of one of the characters. The whole thing. You already knew her story and while it was ‘cute’ to know her background, there was no excitment or suspense because you already knew how it was going to end. I still enjoyed it though.