Sad, angry, and violent, and yet shows something beautiful. Great world-building with amazing magical elements, monsters, spells, and all. Narration requires attention to piece the story together, and is good.

Interactions between the main hero and narrator, and the rest of heroes of the story, are the highlight. The hero can be described as a gay man hunter/scout/warrior, wandering through life, looking for love and family, and in response to the violence he encounters and which is his occupation and perceived injustice and horrors of his world, setting on revenge. He has great skills, and is painted as of good heart, connecting to the weird and weak, but ends up using his skills mostly for hurting others; he struggles to form intimate relationships, and every time that seems to succeed he's either betrayed or his violent past catches up to him. He also has complicated relationship with women, whom he both find worth hating and protecting.

Overall, I find the story together with the world quite captivating, even if it's another romanticization of a journey of a never-growing-up Don Quixote-ish misfit.