In Chosen I kind of let it go, because it was their first novel, and they kind of redeemed him in the end.

Chosen wasn't particularly bad, and had enough pace that you could ignore the characterisation being a little 'off'. Exogenesis was particularly heinous for characterisation, which was a shame cos the overall idea of the story was really good. It just failed in its execution. And because the pace wasn't there, it's failings were more apparent.

I agree, some of the things are right out of bad-fic. And they need to tighten up as a writing unit. I'm hoping that Beth can write on her own. We'll see.