Great man theory + Ayn Rand with a healthy dose of S&M and dues ex machina.

I started reading the books when they were first released and book one I was like “ok, lets see where this is going” and ultimately it’s one of the few series I just quit.

If you can slog through the objectivism political theory it’s tough to also deal with how the world ending threat you just read for 800 pages is resolved by some simple act.

The super duper great man that has some magical John Gault insight into reality is a boring sociopath.

Very few books I’ve read and actually hated and this was one of them.