I haven't read any of the others, but I borrowed the first Hayden trilogy from a friend and for some weird reason even all three of them even though I hated the Mary Sue heroine (everybody loves her and she's incredibly beautiful, but of course doesn't know it herself etc etc) and wanted to throw the books into the wall quite a few times. I also ended up ranting quite a bit about the books to the friend who had loaned them to me.