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Sounds like the enders game series. I wonder why so many things fall off at number 3, and why we can't be sated with one good story.
I loved the first Ender's Game, and then I read the follow up book from Bean's perspective. But outside of those, I didn't even attempt all the sequels.
Enders shadow (the bean story) is the only one worth a minute of your time. Speaker of the dead had some interesting ideas regarding star travel, but quickly became overly simplified.
That simplification was expanded on (by making more parts of nature simpler and simpler) in the hive queen and the hegemon, and then made incredibly spiritual in xenophobia (might have that name wrong, never finished the book).
As contrarian as forums on the internet are, I've yet to see anyone argue the enders game series is worth finishing.
I feel we can also add the Dune series to the same list. I think the first book is the strongest, I couldn't get into the 2nd, but I'm told the first 3 were good then it goes rapidly downhill from there.