I never knew where anything was going (actually I'm uncertain if I caught everywhere they've been but it was a fun ride.)
Everything was a delight, i giggled so often, and I enjoyed it immensely.
absolutely picking up book two immediately.

however the ending seemed slapped together. Suddenly he knew everything, was capable of blackmailing Mr Scientist Man, and chicklet who was sleeping with his brother is suddenly in love with him and will wait for him while he's busy playing video games in a cave. Eh?

Five of my favorite lines picked at random because there's so many fantastic sentences:

Theo forced himself onwards, like a swimmer battling upstream through a custard tsunami.

Eventually, though, the stairs ended in a door, which he discovered by walking into it.

She read me like a book, he told himself bitterly, after she’d gone away. And not just any book; one of the large-print editions they do for people with poor eyesight.

“It’s where a lot of rich people put money in a fund to buy hedges,” Theo said. “Then they sell the blackberries and make an absolute killing. Of course you know what a hedge fund is.”

“Have you been listening to a word I’ve said?”
Theo nodded. “Several,” he said. “But I skipped most of them, because they didn’t seem to be important. Well, thanks, got to go.”