I got my books on Friday but didn't have much time to go through them. I looked at the first volume and would like to comment that it's definitely not a newbie book but quite good to pick up and go through for me as a beginner/junior in the field given that I have the background required which is basically the FE/FM standard curriculum. Some of the notation is not quite what I've become used to from generic quant papers but it's not a big issue with the inclusion of the commonly used notations section, but I would have preferred it as a pull out. Maybe I'll just jot it up on A4 and print it out. Although maybe a bit expensive for students I hope the books become common reading material for FE/FM courses because they are very clearly written and the structure of the content is really good, definitely something that I felt was missing during my studies.