I was fairly tolerant right up until book 7 but by book 10 I'd pretty much lost the will to live

Call me anal but I will see the series out though, no matter how big a chore I find it. I recently read the Trudy Canavan trilogy Black Magician and stuck with it to the end, even though it was blatantly obvious in the early chapters of the first book that it was essentially a romance with a bit of magic chucked in and that Dannyl was going to suddenly discover he was gay and fall in love with Tayend....
