There are aspects of these books that I love, mainly the characters and their development, and this holds true for the majority of the story. The setting and overall plot is also quite good and well executed.
I could go on about every minute aspect about this series that I liked but it would become rambling very quickly, so instead of that I will go into the bad/controversial things about this series.
There is an event at the end of volume seven that drastically changes the direction of the story, and this caused many people to take a break or stop reading entirely. And while this event wasn't necessarily what I wanted to happen I appreciated the new direction of the story and characters spurred by this event. But I can't forgive what happens at near the end of the story near the end of volume 14.
One of the characters resolves themselves to accomplish a specific task. And while I can follow their logic in staying true to their goal it feels somewhat forced by the hand of the author. To me it's not the event itself that is problematic, as it was something that I expected to happen from earlier in the series, but the way the it feels that the author forced the event to happen.
Overall, if you rewrite part of the 14th novel I would recommend this series, but as it stands I can only recommend this to people that go in with the understanding that, while the overall story is great, the ending will be a disappointment.
