The story traps you
I read until I fell asleep and dropped my kindle on the floor, drug myself out of bed and yawned my way through work, only to repeat again and again. The characters are so real you feel you could run into them during your days.
The author is talented and regardless of describing his VCU degree as useless, I suspect it was helpful in developing these stories.
Read all of the Mad Mick stories and the read the Jim Powell stories, you will come out on the other side sleep deprived and satisfied that you have experienced a great story.
May God protect us from ever experiencing a world like Franklin Horton writes about.