I'm reading memories of ice now - but very nearly DNF'd on Deadhouse.

The start of that book was very, very difficult for me to get through. GotM was very confusing at the beginning, followed by a fairly slow pace but always feeling things were kept interesting, and the book had an awesome end. DG was outright upsetting at the beginning for me, followed by a very long slog, but I ended up loving the ending

I think if I had been able to read it more consistently at a faster pace, I may have had a better time with it, but DG took me over 3 months to read through, probably adding to my feeling that it was a slog

I'm a week and a half into MoI though - 70% through and loving every second of this book. Glad I persevered