The summary sounded good. The cover was generic, but not terrible. It had good cover quotes. So I picked up Rhapsody. I even fought my way through the sequels. I hated them. Rhapsody was quite possibly the most obnoxious character I have ever encountered. She's flat, far too perfect to be even slightly believable. She is, to use an internet term, a Mary Sue, a perfect and annoying female protagonist. Look up the original fiction Mary Sue test on google. You'll see what I mean. Even without being able to answer the questions about author intent, Rhapsody tests off the charts.I liked exactly one line of Achmed's at the end of Destiny. That was the sum total of the enjoyment I gained in over a thousand pages of reading. I'm aware that this is a diatribe. I rarely dislike books. I simply happen to hate flat characters. And Rhapsody wasn't just flat, she was linear.