I’m new to the fantasy community, but I’m glad to see it here on Lemmy as well! I would say my favorite novel/series so far has been Mistborn, but it’s kind of the only one I’ve read so far (although it was fantastic). I’d like to gauge all of your responses too!
I sympathise, I’m a slow reader and broke the series up with an unrelated book between each entry. Took a few attempts before I really got into the series too.
Felt like it went on forever but it was only about 3 years. I’d been trying on and off to get into the series properly since my teens though, so 3 years was my last attempt, but overall it’s closer to 20 since my first read through of Gardens.
Toll the Hounds is one of my favourites. Enjoy! I was so keen to get through them all, but now that I’m all done, I really miss it.