Between this series and cold brew Mexican mochas, I’d give up the coffee. Jeff Hays pulls off more narrative witchcraft than Jim Dale in the Harry Potter series, and THAT got me through my last two quarter-life crises.

So meta. So intelligent. So pulpy. How this meatheaded series keeps me interested, entertained, emotionally stimulated and intellectually baffled is a mystery.

How can it be all the things?!

I must know. I must keep reading.