Isabelle got me started on this series by reading and enjoying the first book. She quickly lost interest with the second book, but I decided to forge on.
While the first book offered up a really exciting adventure, the second and third books were really more thinking books, posing questions of "good" versus "bad" and exploring how people - individually and in groups - might respond to various moral dilemmas. The fourth book, having elements of excitement and suspense, returns to a format more similar to the first.
Incidentally, it seems to me that if you are more interested in adventure and less interested in philosophy, you could probably read just books #1 and #4, skipping books #2 and #3 altogether. #2 helps to set the stage for #4, plus it fills in some information that was left out of #1, but there's probably just enough back story in #4 that reading #2 isn't essential. (#3 is a bit of a detour and doesn't add much to the story arc of the series.)
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