You know, I only started reading them around last Christmas after years of having them recommended them to me. I finally got the ebook out of the library and I am hooked. Just finished the third book. I am trying to space them out a bit with other books on my list so I'm not bogged down by months of only this story although it'd be very easy to fall into that. I fear the day they run out although the eighth book in the series is supposed to be released this summer too.
Sometimes I'll mention it randomly in conversation and out of the woodwork come a bunch of other friends who love it and have never said anything about it before... It's kind of funny.