This is a good book. It's also not necessarily a book to my tastes!

It's generally quite well-written (with a singular notable exception a ways in that made me momentarily very confused about what the hell I was reading; sorry there are just some paragraphs you can't write about phalluses and not sound utterly ridiculous) and I think that most of the stylistic choices add to rather than take away from the narrative.

That said, a lot of this book is concerned with the Sexy! Danger! type relationship between the main protagonist Yeine and her primary love interest, and I just don't care about Sexy! Danger!

It bores me. Consequently, that entire plot, which is pretty central to the book, also bored me. It took a turn for actually engaging me towards the very end when its paradigm shifted substantially, but I probably wouldn't have made it that far at all if the book hadn't come with such high recommendations from various people.

If you're into the unpredictable, supremely powerful, dangerous and frightening yet intensely beautiful and sexy and compelling in spite of/due to his danger~ romantic hero thing, you'll probably be into this. And, as a bonus, unlike most narratives featuring that trope, the heroine is fully realized as a character and actually has agency.

But if you're like me and not into that whole scene at all, depending on your level of aversion it may or may not be worth it.