I quit. I am so goddamn angry with this book.

I started this on January 13th and it COMPLETELY ruined my reading mood for an entire month. This book catapulted me right into a reading slump because I was so aggressively angry and annoyed with it.

I made it to the 30% mark, so that's equal to 209 pages. And at this point I set it down then proceeded to never go back to it and instead only glared at it and cussed it out every time I looked in its general direction.

Why does this book have so me so angry, well mainly its the way all the women (up till the point I have read to were treated or included in the story) I even read another review that praised how well they where treated and I would like to know what copy they read and maybe if I could get that version.

First there is the nunnary? like place where all the Red Knights men basically stand around talking about how they will show these women what its like to be with a man regardless if they want it or not, just super rapey conversations going on there (and that's like within the first 30 pages) The Red Knight, the guy we are suppose to be following proceeds to FORCE himself on to one of the ladies but hey, lets give him a pat on the back because he didn't rape her. Yah it explicitly says that, after he forces a girl up against a wall, shoves his leg between hers and then forces a kiss upon her, but its okay he is a good guy he put her down and pulled away from her to show he wasn't a rapist. NO that is not how that works. I do give the girl credit for slamming his ear after wards, but god it was all unnecessary and made me instantly hate the Red Knight.

There is a woman who is brutally split open, a women who all 3 times she is talked about I am reminded about her days as a prostitute nothing more about her, apparently her past days are more important then her current present self. A mother bear who gets to watch her cub be brutally murdered by a pack of dogs, a young girl who is called a witch for having empathy towards the captured mother bear, two slaves, who where women who were raped repeatedly by their captors (thankfully only told to us by a 3rd party who had to witness it repeatedly) An old woman who is almost raped by one of the Red Knights own men, what was probably an attempted off screen raping of some girls who where hopefully saved by Bad Tom, since he is also the same guy who saved the old lady, but don't worry that old lady goes on to be basically stalked by her would be rapist and given far away menacing glances from the piece of shit.
Out first meeting of the Queen and she is naked, I don't know why that was necessary but it was, and also lets not forget the name calling even she gets, like being called a hussy for example. Also there was the weird preach she had about how girls are suppose to give their love and shit.

This was all in the first 209 pages. like WTF, the whole time I'm just waiting for an onscreen rape to happen because it just feels like it will happen, and that makes it so godawful uncomfortable to read.

Aside from all that I hated everyone, maybe I could have liked Bad Tom if I kept going but that's never going to happen. There was to many pov, and that's not saying I have an issue with lots of point of views, I love multiple povs, IF THEY ARE NECESSARY, I wasn't even half way into the book and I was annoyed with the unnecessary povs. The pacing was so slow, the action felt non existent and when it did finally happen it felt so short lived that I didn't have much to enjoy. I was just so bored and so angry that it just flat out ruined my will and mood to read.

I am so grateful I held off on buying the whole series, as I will not be keeping my copy. This does make me hesitant to pick up any of the authors other works. Thankfully my slump is gone, but my anger over this book isn't.