Well there were some good and some bad. I really loved the first um 5 books and then they went down hill from there. He needs to stick to a few main plots and maybe a few sub plots rather than have 20 different ones spanning multiple books. Yes you can have 1 or 2 maybe 3 main ones but not 15 like he does. But he is deffinately a great author who really know's how to get his audience into the plot.
I am totally enthralled. I have not yet read the ore-history one...but it sitting right there under my alarm clock.....
Have them all and I would say I read the first 7 religiously.. the last two were more rambling and pointless.. in fact the I really struggled with the 8th and it was only when the 9th came out that I reread them both that I actually managed to pick up the storyline. I hope it doesn't go on for much longer.. unless the plot becomes a lot more cohesive of course.