I listened to the first 3 books in the series as part of a set. I ramped up to 1.5x just to finish. The story is shallow and entirely predictable. The characters are also shallow and not endearing. Basically, the author tells you people are “tough” and you just have to respect them based on that. The narrator is just a reader. Limited inflection, terrible accents, little differentiation between male and female characters and certainly none in the same gender. I do not recommend this series.