DS5, DS7 and I love these books - it's so refreshing to find chidren's books that revel in the use of language (am I the only parent on earth who can't stand Magic Treehouse?).
The stories do have a lot of violence, malice and murder but, like the language, it's so fabulously stylised that we haven't found it disturbing. I stopped Harry Potter after The Goblet of Fire, because those books do get a lot darker - and it's serious darkness, not camped-up fun darkness.
And if you like reading aloud, ASOUE is a treasure trove.
