This is what this series will do to you.

Book: Come on, pick me up, read me, you'll love me. You'll fall in love with my characters, and sometimes you'll hate them, but you will still hold out a hope that they will do the right thing. My characters my disappoint you, but you will still love them, hold on to them, because they will become your friends. And then, once you're absolutely in love with my plot and my characters and my world..... I will tear it apart and kill everything you love in the most awful way imaginable.

I loved this series. I didn't even love the main character much of the time, but I held out hope for him because of the incredible way he was written. I could sense the battle within him, even if it wasn't written out exactly. The ending to the series tore my heart out, but it just about mended it too.