The Forgetting Moon

The best fleshed-out and real-feeling characters (as persons) i've read in decades; good (ok) writing; but unoriginal plot and characters (as types) and situations and interactions, all already read many times before (mainly in WoT and ASOIAF.)
One of the POVs (the princesses sisters) also bored me immensely, but this is subjective, just me being a male and in my 40s (so i couldn't empathise neither by gender nor by age).

While I did enjoy this book very much, I could definitely see all of the criticisms this book was getting all this time. I'm not the type of a reader that picks up on the problematic things in the book, I'm picking it up to enjoy it not to look if the author has enough representation in it. But the way every female was described was so overly sexual that I was unable to block it out. Every one of them had a description of the size of their breasts. Every one. To couple with that the fact that the plot kinda lost some steam at the halfway mark, and my rating kinda plummeted. I was honestly thinking this was gonna be a high 4 or a 5 star for me until the halfway point. 
I'll probably still pick up the second book in the series to see if the writing improved because I really did enjoy this world and politics.

Idk how this book is so underrated and barely has any reviews. This one of my favorite books I've ever read. If you like Tad Williams or George Martin then you'll appreciate this book because there are so many similarities in the characters but the story is so unique in its own way. The story is told in a multi character first person format which is my favorite style. It follows Nail who is a bastard apprentice who is trying to figure out who is parents are but nobody will tell him. Tala, who's the youngest sister of the new tyrant king, is dealing with a mystery of her cousin being poisoned and must follow the clues to save her life. Jondralyne who is the older sister must deal with her brother's cruelty at court and secretly plans to usurp the crown herself. All the characters must come together and find out that their lives are following a 1,000 year prophecy but are they the true Warrior Angels?