Here's what happened. I thought I would finish this but I got curious and read about the series as a whole and people either loved it or hated it AND based off of publisher summaries and reviewers I decided to stop reading. I wasn't interested in it enough to stay the course through however many books are in the series or to even finish this title. I was enjoying it okay but the publisher's descriptions of later books actually turned me off to the direction the author was going to take it.