Okay, so this gets a 3 stars. I'd go 2, but I'm feeling charitable. I finished it - but I'm out on medical leave, so I've got literally nothing else going on, and it's got a great voice actor, so it's great background chatter while I'm playing video games.

This is a basic male power fantasy.

The one woman who features in with any sort of regularity is put through hell - her family dies, and the inn they own and she works at, burns down. She's set up as a courtesan - because of course that's all women in this world seem to be good for. It seems to be a trend for her. And only a single line in the story acknowledges that maybe - MAYBE? - she might have some thoughts about that. She's given no agency, no will, no desires (except to take back the asshole that happened to condemn her for doing what she needed to do to survive?) and absolutely no backbone.

There are a few points where there was some potential for the story to really blow me out of the water - and it totally dodged the interesting points so the Larry Stu can then go on yet another adventure that he doesn't seem to take anything away from.

I finished it, but generally wouldn't recommend it unless you, like me, have literally nothing else to do with your time.