I actually thought this was pretty interesting at first, but it became painfully apparent it was written by a man very quickly when the married man started to have lustful rape thoughts about a woman they came across in the forest--but that's fine because he would NEVER actually act on them like other men.

Not too long later his wife predictably dies in childbirth so that he can then have sex with said woman (it's okay now because his wife is dead--still warm in the ground, mind you) and she tells him, "I loved you the first moment I saw you." But he's not sure how to respond or feel about it because he's so conflicted about his wife being dead even though he was fine with having sex with her. A few other things happen with the baby that he abandoned who was found and taken in by some monks and then suddenly he asks her to be his wife.

The entirety of it was so fucking cringey I wanted gag. Needless to say, after this all happened, I was done reading. That was the first 10% of the book and it was enough.