Not quite what the thread is about, but I would like to know if people would recommend me Taran Wanderer. I have read the first book of the series two times over the last ten years or so, and gave up in the middle of the second one. Only remember vaguely that it felt too much like generic fantasy.
I also remember that Taran Wanderer was on the favourite Fantasy list, years ago, and that it is a bit of a deconstruction, or something (don't remember the details, but sounded interesting). Does it make sense, to read the book, if I only remember the very basics of the series (who Taran is, that he freed a princess who was kinda cool, some thorned king, I think?). Or does the fourth book reference the rest of the series too much? Like, will Taran meet his old antagonists, who are now reformed, or something like that?