The books are okay. They are easy reads. I thought the first two were a lot better then the last one. I thought there was major lack of character growth issues in the third one where i didn’t care when characters died. And i thought the end was left us with depression and i really think the author was trying to go for hope at the end and failed. Hopefully they can work out some of those problems in the films. I went and saw it this afternoon and thought the film was good. It definitely felt like the beginning of a series in some ways.