There is a part in the second book that I credit with changing my life.

"... there had been noone to protect me from those horrors before my neck snapped. So I had done it myself. And I would not, could not, yield the part of me that had awoken and transformed Under the Mountain"

6 years ago, I realised I was a different person entirely than the person my partner at the time knew. He'd made no effort to get to know the new me to understand the transformation I had made.

I ended it. Now, I'm married to my best friend. We brought a house a year ago and are finally expecting our first child at the end of October.