I feel bad rating this so low because I feel that I did myself a disservice by starting this series with the third installment. In my defense though, I didn't even know this was the third in a series. The author did do a bit of an overview but not enough for it to make complete sense to me and left me feeling I was missing something. I'll avoid criticizing this further since I'm sure my distaste was mostly due to my lack of knowledge from the previous installments.