Amazing how that works. It's almost like I don't trust my own taste, or have forgotten whether they were good - sure, I liked them a lot on the first read! (And all subsequent rereads.) Enough to go through the whole series! But now? Will I like them now? How can I know or guess whether I'll want to read them all again, or just stop after the first one? :P A mystery!

It's funnier because in some ways I did forget a lot; I keep being surprised by how fast everything is moving, and how soon certain characters appear, because my overall impression after reading umpteen books n times is "long and gradual development." But things change pretty quickly over the course of a single book, and the tension is really strong.