Yeah, I was going to say that. He reiterates the premise of the series in each book for new readers, and he’s doing a pastiche of a different author for each (at least for the first four books or so), so they’re even tonally different.
Yeah, this is true, but up until that point it was quite easy to jump in.
The apocalypse was a forgone conclusion from book 1, though it actually got started a few books back.
A crime even!
