This series!
Every time I think I have a handle on what it's doing, it goes off and does something else. It's a ridiculous text, and much of what it draws on in terms of style makes it turn into the kind of series you want to either throw at every one you know or just at a wall.
And it's incomplete because there's one book left and I want to know what happens next before I can decide how I feel about it.
There's so much that depends on how you read the honesty of the characters and narrators and editors: are they accurate in their assessments, are they true in their beliefs, and are they our narrators because Palmer agrees with them or wants to complicate their viewpoints. To what degree are the points that she glosses over a flaw in the narration or the text? Palmer is obviously not Mycroft Canner, but where, then, is she? That's the hardest part of this series for me.
With all that "blah!" it's also a ridiculously fascinating series doing all sorts of weird stuff that I am 100% here for as someone who deeply appreciates (yelling at) the 18th century.