I confess, I only read the last one.
I have pains with such books for another reason--it's too easy for me to identify to intensely with the characters and their traumatic situations in such books.
But, hey, my friends rated the first Star Wars movie a
"9 tripper!'
Meaning Quix took 9 bladder breaks during the tense parts.
And, I fast forwarded through quite a number of parts of Lord of The Rings! LOL.
Well, I finished the series because I wanted to see what happened to people. But there were a couple of times when I would read something and just groan thinking "no, they really didn't write that..."
And, I fast forwarded through quite a number of parts of Lord of The Rings! LOL.
Pure heresy, with the exception of the Aragorn/Arwen flashback scenes.