God damn it. I'm currently in the beginning of the Sellswords series, and hands down the first of those (Servant of the shard iirc?) was so amazing, I could not stop reading. But yeah, I figured that it would turn bad. Some of the first 10 were really bad too (like Salvatore literally wrote something in the likes of "and he sliced him with his sword, marking him with an X across his chest"), but in total: I loved that journey so far.

This! 🤣🤌🏼

Later in the series a lot more characters become the focus and I enjoyed that quite a bit. It feels the series has a constant of Drizzt but it's best when that anchor is used to show other players stories. Jarlaxle, Kimmueriel (sp?), Artemis, Yvonnel, Gromph, the second round Harpells, the Xorlarrans, the Avendrow etc. And even as someone whose spent a really large amount of time with the series I would say I mostly ignore the Drizzt monologueing feels like mostly catch up content or insights that already made themselves clear and mayhaps our author just filling pages...