IDK why this book has such a chokehold on me. 

I am holding my judgments until I finish but I have a feeling this could have been condensed into fewer books had we cut some of the frivolous mundane things that don't need to be in the book. 

It's also hard to keep all the side characters straight when there is almost nothing distinctive about them. 

The writing is juvenile which was a bit unexpected given the college-aged characters.