

This book started off really strong and then gradually fell off. It started with the needless trope of woman 1 feeling insecure because woman 2 is prettier, crap that you see in older works. I was waiting for that trope to be subverted, but it was plain boring and unoriginal through and through. There were needles gendered remarks sprinkled throughout that I also didn't care for. Angua also became a mouthpiece for some xenophobic opinions--
There was some good dwarven lore, and I was interested in that, but it didn't focus too deeply on it. The way Sybil goes from being written as a strong and independent woman to a damsel in distress in these bothers me a lot. She also suffers from the forced gender roles in these books. She is written far better in the first watch book than the following ones imo. 6d