The melodrama is strong with this one. Sadly, the editing is not.
I really liked the premise and the overall story arc (though there are a ton of plot holes), but my. god. This 1900 page tome is rife with misspellings, incorrect punctuation, grammatical errors, missing and wrong words. Plus there were a few times when the wrong gender was used for a character that has a single gender. There was too much internal dialog, too much repetition, etc. Was this edited at all? Sure didn't seem like it.
Also on the list of things I pretty much hate in a story -- hot and cold running MCs (boy howdy do I love those /sarcasm), the main MC crying every other page (it seems) and whining pretty much all the time. It took me a long while to actually warm to the Fifth Horseman.
You might wonder why I didn't just DNF it. Honestly, I had things to do IRL and needed to not get so lost in reading that I neglected those things so I just kept plugging along. It took me almost two weeks to read.
Finally though, the story picks up at the end of book 3 (something FINALLY happened!!), so that bumped up my overall enjoyment and rating a bit.
Book 1: 2 Stars
Book 2: 2.5 Stars
Book 3: 3 Stars
Book 4: 4 stars
Series Overall: 3-ish stars