I still absolutely love the character study happening in this series. I love seeing how they've all changed so much since the start of the first book. Parisa cares more, Tristan is growing in his power and confidence, Libby is having a whole corruption arc, Nico is learning his flaws and setbacks and he finally might be recognizing his feelings for Gideon? Callum is becoming less sociopathic and Reina is just kind of losing her mind with how much knowledge she's gained. Plus all of the other characters who weren't the original six have changed and you can tell, even Atlas.
I loved how you can see the way Atlas shaped all of them and how they all will eventually agree to his plan of opening doors to other universes or creating a new one all together but their still struggling their morality and whether that would be a morally good thing or not.
It's so fascinating to listen to and I love the psychology of it all, but I don't know if I'd be able to get through these books if I hadn't been listening to the audiobooks. I think they would bore me a little too much if I was reading the physical copies since they're so character dense and there's almost no plot at all.
I'm so grateful that I have access to these audiobooks though because I do really appreciate them from an author perspective. The craftsmanship and skill you would need as an author to write something like this is still so astonishing to me and I'm in awe of Blake for it.