i’m not entirely sure how i feel after reading something like this. 

it was sexist, homophobic, AND racist, under the guise of ‘male banter’. 

the women are either ‘bedwarmers’ or look after the children and the only female character who doesn’t fit into either of those boxes, is continuously belittled, put down, and seen as a sex object. there might have been good enough intentions for her tough, stubborn attitude and ability, but it was very much lost in the ‘she’s just one of the lads’. 

it was crude, crass and violent, and that was just the dialogue. 

and the whole lore of how ‘half-orcs’ comes about ?? yeaaaaah, no. brutality against women of any race, real or not, for the sake of it.

the actual plot was entertaining, at least, parts of it. i did like oats, and the hogs. but everything else just made me mutter, ‘yep, a man definitely wrote this.’