*mind blown 
 I actually started the series with the TV series, but I never really got hooked so I never finished SE01. Feb 2014, a friend was raving about how good the books were. In May, I finally got mind blown. 
 The book is so amazingly paced (you never get bored), it keeps me at the edge of my seat (keeps me thinking what happened to the other characters), robbed me of sleep (it has been so long since I looked at the time and realize I read the night away), and made me LIKE this genre. If you are looking into getting the hang od these kinds of biiks, these re you best bet. I wonder how great the book would have been had I not started with watching a few episodes of the series.