My group of two players (each running a main character and a DM generated NPC) just finished Edge of Anarchy last night and started Seven Days to the Grave. We've had a blast so far and I just wanted to share some of the experiences that I think were really successful.
-For one thing, my players commented that they really like the "mini-games" that come up; The Shingle Chase is a really smart and fun way to break up the action without slogging through a map. Knivesies at Eel's End was also a big hit. These are a great way to break up the action a little and let player and DM alike take a break from the D&D while still advancing the game
-Information is presented really well. Within the first scene, when I mentioned that the Castle Seneschal was missing the PCs piped up saying,"Hey, we should find that guy." Catching Verik and then Trinia, one character commented,"Seems like we're catching all the good guys." (They haven't figured out Verik's true reasons for deserting.)
-NPCs- My players are always happy to see Grau after the first riots, especially since they got him back on the wagon. I guess it helps that I basically told them to play good guys at the beginning of the campaign, but they required no incentive beyond a request from him to cure Brienna at the very beginning of Seven Days to the Grave.
At Eel's End, the dwarf ranger (with a 3 charisma) managed to goad Barvasi himself into a game of Knivesies and win (despite the odds stacked in the Lord of Spiders' favor). So, they managed to walk away with the bribe money and the letters by making him lose face (and I figured he didn't want to get a reputation for breaking deals).
-I ask if the players want to do a Harrowing at each new adventure and they commented "Yeah, cause that's like Tarot but it's kind of cool". For Seven Days to the Grave, I got a lot of Shields cards, the most notable being in the future column: The Teamster (symbolizing the party, though the half-orc paladin is convinced it's him specifically), with a true match of The Uprising and a partial match of The Courtesan. I think that alone was enough to tell them who's behind the trouble looming over Korvosa and what's likely to happen...
So, great work. We're having a lot of fun.