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I'm on the second-to-last (or chronologically, first) Craft Sequence book, which seems to be a pretty direct prequel to Two Serpents Rise, while filling in backstory on a character who appears to some degree in all the other books. This whole series has been resetting my expectations several times in each book. I'm in a bit of a rush to get to the last (but technically penultimate) book based on the characters I expect to be involved, but I'm also enjoying the deeper delve into what I would have called the least interesting setting in the series (crypto-LA).
I don't expect this series to end up anywhere, which makes it even harder to give many impressions without having heard the whole thing and reflected upon it. I can say the first (numbered three) book is a find standalone, and the books numbered 1&2, published opposite, would make a super satisfying duology for a different reader than myself (they are mainly interesting within the context of the series to me). The most similar experience I've had with a series is Ian M. Banks' Culture novels, which similarly have more of a thesis in common than a series of events, but don't take their thesis too seriously.
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