i read hte first few in high school. boring bioessentialist magic system, boring one-dimensional characters, villains who call themselves the damned ones or something and monologue about how evil they are.
it's like somebody wrote a completely sincere version of the fantasy world from thomas covenant. oooo im lord foul and this is my evil goon drool rokwyrm, and were gonna tap all your mana with eeeevil
just go read a plot synopsis on the fan wiki if you wanna know how it ends. 14 books could be so many different experiences