*comments way too late*
I can't pick favourites when it comes to the trilogy, but if I could...

GE would probably pwn the other two. Not that I'm picking favourites. It kept me sane last summer when the parental units decided to up and take us all camping for a month, and I read it over and over and over until the binding was ruined and the cover fell off. Poor binding. Never had a chance. At the end, you could read me any sentence from it, and I could tell you the next one from memory. Sad, no? The perspectives were beautifully done. The first time I read it, every time I started a Kitty flashback part I'd be a bit annoyed that it was slowing down the plot, but by the time I finished the part, I'd be annoyed that we were returning to the plot. Stupid Stroud, being way too good at writing and stuff.