I can definitely see you & your tastes in them! (I mean that in a complementary way.) I'm honestly jealous of your reading experience, because I can see how delightful this series would be with a higher tolerance for the genre; it's got so much going for it. But my tolerance is like ... barely better than nonexistent, which is a shame.

Still worth it for the magic system for me, though. The fluidity of it reminds me a lot of what I internalized from studying Celtic mythology and fairy faith, back in the day - not in the specifics but in the way things work, differing between peoples, not structured but intuitive, impactful but unsolvable.