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Quickly want to say how much I enjoyed this review, while shielding my eyes from spoilers.

Fantasy and sci-fi genres are comforting pleasures for me, and while this one seems a bit more macho BS than I like—and especially given the inside-cover blurbs—I’m intrigued and will probably read it.

I thought your q "I wonder what the [violence involving women and children] means artistically" was an important one. I need to think about it more, I’m always struck by it. FWIW I‘m a fan of GOT; there was so much craft and artistry in the series, the violence came through for me mostly as a way to express the harshness of that reality versus simply for the sake of violence or prurience alone.

Anyway I’ll probably read this now for fun, and set my expectations appropriately low given your opinion. It can only go up from there!

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