RJ was definitely guilty of that. But I fell in love with enough of his characters and was (mostly) enthralled enough by the story to get over it. At least until book 7. After that, I started to get ticked off with how much padding there was and how obviously RJ was dragging things out to get more books out of the series.
I have the last 3 books to get to yet - like you, Karen, I'm going to have to read through again just so I'm up to speed, otherwise I'm going to be completely lost.
LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
