My uncle gave me the first 2 books in the series, but they were in Afrikaans. The rest of the series I have in English. When I started reading them not a lot of ppl knew about the books yet in my neck of the woods. We were only about 3 girls that read it, but when that third book came out everybody started reading it and followed it. Then the preaching in the churches started that it was satanic and that it is brainwahing our youth..you know, the usual, but that didn't stop the little heathens from reading it. I just love the readability of the books, its very flowy and not too difficult to read.