Oh, I'm interested to see what you'll think! I suspect I'd really like them if I read them again, actually; but I tend to like books, even on rereading, that I read when young and impressionable, even if I wouldn't like them for the first time now.

I seem to remember Aeron (and possibly all Kenneally's characters) was a bit of a Mary Sue (wasn't she totally awesome at magic And fighting And ship-piloting And ruling And, probably, basket-weaving as well), even though I didn't have the words for it back then, but I loved her anyway. Because she also had that awful temper.