Well, as each books continued, I got more annoyed with this series. I was annoyed with America's inability to be honest with herself and for also stringing Maxon and Aspen along. But mostly I was annoyed with the King and what the former US had turned in to. Honestly, it was almost offensive for me to read that my country had turned into a dictatorial monarchy. It is such anathema to me that it just made my insides crawl. I'm an American to my core, I guess, and fully believe in "home of the free".