Can’t go wrong with the Twilight of the Clans books. 7 book series, each of them a different story. Really great IMO. It’s been a while, but I think Blood of Kerensky series (3 books) is also pretty great.
It kind of works, and kind of doesnt. It never happens again in the entire BT universe as far as I'm aware. Its an old part of canon that the fanbase and writers generally think is a bit shit and largely ignore.
For Succession Wars I’d suggest starting with the Gray Markets Anthology. It doesn’t hold your hand and tell you everything that’s going on, but you will tacitly gain information from these stories that will help in later books. Plus they’re all just great stories.
@setsneedtofeed fwiw, I've enjoyed Stackpole's Warrior and Blood of Kerensky trilogies and Thurston's Jade Phoenix trilogy. Maybe I'm partial to the first nine I read. IMO some of the Twilight of the Clans novels were less fun.