Reading a new book

So... today I found myself in Waterstones buying Ramond E Feists new book: the King of ashes... book numero uno of a new trilogy... a new... world!

Now... Feist has been a source of calm and an escape from boredom when away with the work (I’m a pipeline welder so we tend to go away every so often to do a lot of repetitive work ) and the adventures of Pug and Co have kept me amused several times over.

I find it strange that I’ll be reading an authors’ new work that is missing that familiarity... so much so I’m compelled to re-read Magician for the unknownth time (havent recently so it’ll be as good as ever) and then jump to King of ashes.

For those not familIar with this gentleman’s work - Magician was released donkeys ago (1980
Odds methinks? Waay before I was born anyhow) - and KoA was released... last month?

Has anyone else found Themselves in a similar situation?
What do you think one can expect from a writers work - 3 decades forward?