Ok, so I tore through book 1 of the Founder's Trilogy and really liked it but it took me something like 4 months to get through book 2. Now I am 30 pages into book 3 and I fucking hate it. I think I have decided that the dialogue, the constant bitching about slavery/colonialism, and all of the talk about consent and merging with the the technology from last book. It is exhausting and just dumb. It sucks because I have loved all of his standalone books but this makes me not want to start his other trilogies (even the one he hasn't finished yet). His born/raised/living in Austin is just too much for him to overcome in a multi-book story arch.
Edit: He also killed/changed my favorite two characters at the end of book 2 and now leaves us with a full cast of females as the main characters....like all of them. None of them are particularly likeable and their inner monologue is just the same shit over and over again.