I kind of think of these books as the adult equivalent of the Babysitter's Club books. They're light and pleasant to read, without making you think much or leaving you with any particular memories. You can skip around in the series almost at whim and it doesn't matter much. Other than Brust's coffee fixation and the lack of the BSC's chapter 2 intros, they feel very similar to me.

(Then again, it took me a very long time to realize that I should be translating Dragaereans as elves instead of as dragon-people, and I've never quite gotten over that.)