I think I may just not be the right audience for this sort of book, as I am hard to sell on stories with many character viewpoints with slow pacing in the first place, and I don't really like nonstop violence against women and rape very much. It also just didn't grip me, perhaps because my emotional response to constant 'anyone can die' when I haven't bonded with any characters yet is to just not bond with any of them at all, but also because perhaps I just didn't strongly identify with any of the characters.

All the stuff I hated about Tolkien without any of what I liked about Tolkien, plus more stuff I don't like, is not a great combination.