Was browsing goodreads looking for the next thing to read. Based on some of the stuff I read and either was okay with or actually liked, the algorithm pointed me to Adrian Tchaikovsky, particularly two series, children of time and dogs of war. I kinda liked that dogs of war has the pov of what's basically a dog, is there any consensus on either series or the author?

I've never really heard of him. Any personal opinion on this is welcome, from what I can tell, a lot of sffg series get told "it gets good after x" so I'd like to field opinions so I know if I should sink in the hours or not.