Funnily enough re-reading Wise Man's Fear atm and really enjoying it the 2nd time round. Looking forward to see how it concludes as I haven't a clue (whenever the third comes out)!
Given that the story is barley started, I seriously doubt that the third book will complete the series. I can't see less than seven books to tell the story at the current rate of progress.
Currently I'm on "The Moon and the Sun" by Vonda McIntyre. Apparently it's a film, except the film company won't actually release it. Before that was Ancillary Mercy, the last part of Ann Leckie's trilogy. I like the books, but I suspect the readers of more, er,
traditional, SF won't. They are odd books in many ways: billed as space opera, there's no battles (except small-scale fights), so huge battle fleets etc. Large parts of the books are about people - traditionally a turn-off for SF readers.
Before that was the last part of Kameron Hurley's trilogy starting with God's War. These are just about the most violent SF books I've ever read - and that includes the books of Richard Morgan. But they are very good, and the world she creates is genuinely original.
I also read the second book of James S A Corey's "Expanse" books. The only way to describe this is that it's just the first book in the Expanse series all over again, with some slight alterations. The main problem is that the overarching plot part is vastly more interesting than the rather silly war going on. The author(s) should just have told that story.
The best book I've read recently though, is Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel. It's a book which takes place around the end of the world (by disease), but that's not what it's about. Again, like all the best fiction of any type, it's all about people. And in this case, the connections between them, all via a character who dies in the first chapter, before anyone even realises that the world is about to end.
