/lit/ - Literature

Book report time!

Just finished the first book and there's probably a reason why this series is fairly obscure and that's because it's nothing particularly special. It becomes decent enough after a slog with the first 9 chapters, but after that it picks up and becomes an entertaining enough, if nothing spectacular, S&S tale. One thing I will praise heavily about this book is despite almost every single character being female there is no KILL ALL MEN bullshit. I think all those female characters have more to do with maybe a fetish of the author's rather than any feminist reasons since damn near all of them end up naked and chained and even tortured at certain points. All that being said the story is quite straight forward, the setting is a Norse fantasy world, all the characters are likable, and the villain comes across almost like Skeletor which I really enjoyed. Would only recommend to my fellow hardcore S&S chads after they've read the greats of the genre and still feel the need to check out more S&S even if it doesn't measure up to the best the genre has to offer.