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Good luck to you! I think you will need it. My neice really liked the series so my sister-in-law read it to see what her daughter was reading and quite liked it as well so they recommended it to me. Science fiction and fantasy are my preferred genres so I had an open mind and no preconceptions (this was just as the 4th book was published and before the movies were announced. I read the first book, half the second, skimmed parts of the third, and read the ending of the fourth. Just not my thing. I think they were written for teens (about 15 years old IMO) and I just couldn't do the mind-set needed to enjoy the story. I don't want to be critical because lots of people did really like the books who would really dislike ones that I think are great. The Harry Potter books, however, I very much enjoyed. The first ones were written for (I think) 9 & 10 year olds with the rest of the books progressing in sophistication as the reader would at a book a year for 7 years (give or take) if they started at 10 years old. With that in mind I could do the first few and wait for the later ones to build. Personally I think this is part of why the books became progressively longer as a person's attention span would grow.
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