I read the first third of the first book in the spider people series, and I admired it a lot, but I didn't get emotionally invested. Then I got distracted and never picked it back up.

And then a couple of weeks ago I read the first third of his shapeshifting pre-history series (The Tiger and the Wolf? The Wolf and the Tiger? Something like that?) and it was more my thing but it didn't grab me enough to keep reading it. I might still give it another try at another point because I thought the worldbuilding was pretty fun.