To be honest, I'm not surprised about this. I used to be a fan of Salvatore, but then I read "The Spine of the World", in which he portrayed a woman lying to, and manipulating a good man as if she was justified in doing so, as if she wasn't a villain. Salvatore constantly excused her horrible actions, trying to make us empathize with her circumstances. It left a very sour note, and I just couldn't entirely shake off that feeling whenever I read his writings afterwards. And then the spell-plague happened, and he just randomly killed off Cattie-brie, and at that point I just dropped him off entirely.

I enjoyed some of his previous works, but the direction he was heading was obvious from a mile off.