This series deeply scarred me when I discovered it in the library. The first book started out great, the second was cool, and then this travesty happened. I finished the trilogy, and I thought I was cool with Amanda Hocking and her need to be avante garde. But ever since then, I've attempted to start two other books by her, from different series, and I just couldn't get past the third page in both. I'm scared she's going to screw me over again. So I just shut down. I can't physically keep reading anymore. Thus, the relationship between Hocking, me and her books are severed. Unless, she tricks me into reading her work again through some obscure pseudonym.