If we count audiobooks I'm currently going through the Wheel of Time series. I'm on the last book Jordan wrote before he died, and while aside from book 8 (nothing happens in book 8) it isn't awful, if this ranks as one of the greatest modern fantasy series, the genre is incredibly sick (or maybe I just don't like the genre as much as I thought I did.) I think the problem large comes from the fact that every book after the first adds at least one character to the cast of "main" characters so you go from seven or eight to past double that a few books in, and they all have their own story (or share a story with one of the other main characters) which means if you don't like a character at some point you have to spend a few chapters reading their story, or (in the reverse) if there's a character you particularly like, you may go (at least almost) a whole book without anything major happening for them.

If we count audiobooks I'm currently going through the Wheel of Time series. I'm on the last book Jordan wrote before he died, and while aside from book 8 (nothing happens in book 8) it isn't awful, if this ranks as one of the greatest modern fantasy series, the genre is incredibly sick (or maybe I just don't like the genre as much as I thought I did.) I think the problem large comes from the fact that every book after the first adds at least one character to the cast of "main" characters so you go from seven or eight to past double that a few books in, and they all have their own story (or share a story with one of the other main characters) which means if you don't like a character at some point you have to spend a few chapters reading their story, or (in the revers_ if there's a character you particularly like, you may go (at least almost) a whole book without anything major happening for them.