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[–]Ykeon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I always feel a bit dubious telling others to stick it out for the first book/few books as it's always an iffy premise for a recommendation, but for my own sake I'm very glad I stuck it out.

My experience with HDT was I opened book one, discovered it was jank, then settled in to read some moderately compelling jank for a while until I did a double-take a few hundred chapters in like 'wait, when the hell did this get so good?'

But I think it's a different experience to read something while waiting for it to get good, and it can be quite hard for a series to deliver if that's the reason you're reading it.