The Bone Ships

I'm sorry, but this book is not it. I was so excited about finally reading it, but it just doesn't work. 15% in and I'm both bored and annoyed.

Look. Nowadays every fantasy writer and reader seems to be obsessed with worldbuilding and making it as over the top as possible. Of course some worldbuilding is necessary. But adding ridiculous words every two sentences is not good worldbuilding. It is especially useless and stupid if you are inventing new words to name something normal just to fake that your world is so rich.
Example. In this thing every single fucking position people can have on a ship is given a new stupid name. A damn doctor is called a hangshand! WHY? What does it add? Nothing. A hat is called a hat, but a doctor needs some uwu fancy new name for no reason. We are less than a hundred pages in, we don't know much about the characters or what's going on or why. But we get told the fancy fantasy names of the days of the week, which again, adds nothing.
Coming up with a new name for a palm tree is not good fantasy writing. Work on the things that are necessary for the story to glide, to capture people, instead of reinventing the wheel to seem deep.

Everyone loves this, so my rant is nothing, but hey. Another thing.
Why is everyone going along with this shit? There is a ship, full of criminals who got condemned to serving here. The protagonist is the captain (called some other ridiculous bullshit, not captain, we are DEEP FANTASY NOW). Everyone hates him and they have exactly zero respect for him. But they just go with it because? Then some woman shows up and is like “YARR, I am the new captain here”. Why don't they fucking beat the shit out of her and leave it at that? Everyone is like super dangerous badass evil, but some chick can order them around because she... is confident?
Let me see ya try that with your local biker gang. See how it goes.

Another thing that is ridiculous that one more book tries to make us believe that it's totes mcgoats natural and indeed logical to pretend that women can be like 50% of some fighting force and biological and physical gender differences ain't shit.
Yes, some women can keep up with men. Very few. They are the exception. 99% of us can't. There is no shame in it and it's not helping anyone to pretend that I could ABSOLUTELY outlift and outfight and out... physical-labour men.

Something about the prose is also really odd. Often times the sentences are just written in this odd style where I don't even understand what they are trying to get to. Combined with the needless mumbo-jumbo lingo and me rolling my eyes at the ‘roided up Wonderwomen, I just felt like I was probably having a stroke.

All in all, this did not work. Most of you will probably love it. That's nice. I refuse to waste my life on it.