I feel incapable of talking about this series; how I feel about it is both beyond words and yet somehow feels so trite and obvious to say. I feel like I'm losing my mind, like I'm outside and I've found a brick and I am yelling at everyone: "look at this brick!" But everyone has seen thousands of bricks so they pass it by.
There is no grand high-stakes narrative here, there is no spectacular heroes journey, it is a slice of life through and through. And yet—it is anything but mundane. It is intense—reading it felt like going outside in the bright sunlight after being indoors, and being completely blinded and in pain for 15 minutes while my eyes adjust. This series hammered itself into my soul. I will never, ever exist as a person who hasn't read this series, and I would never have it any other way.