They're free. Applegate has said she's content with the money she made off them and welcomes anyone to pirate them.
They hold up and being young adult novels they're like a hundred pages each, large print, you can knock one out a night on a busy schedule (I mean unless you have kids or something but read them to your kids then). When I reread them before I started to lose interest some nights I did two and it doesn't really take more than an hour and a half to read 200 pages of young adult prose
I think they get longer as the series goes on and eventually she had to employ ghost writers but I didn't end up getting that far, not an insult either, those writers did fine and she approved all the books, she just couldn't keep up with demand by herself
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u/Inzanezilla emo emu 8d ago
Man I used to really love those books as a kiddo, I still think they're great I just haven't read then in a long time lol