I‘ve been listening to this 29 hour audiobook off & on over the last two months, and though it is dark & violent & occasionally quite hopeless, I enjoyed it! The world was so well-developed, the people and the different gods fully fleshed out, and somehow through all the darkness, love & characters to cheer for shone through. And Simon Vance is a fantastic audio narrator - all told I listened to him for 73 hours as he read these three books!