Okay, so this was a really good epic fantasy, hampered by doing the thing I don’t like where there are multiple viewpoints all over the place and I get why and also I just want to be inside like maybe three people’s heads total and this was a lot of heads. 
But let’s be real, no one reads epic fantasy for the plot, they read it for the joy of watching people work in a fantastic world. Suri delivers on both. Everyone is interesting and the stuff is good stuff and for all that the story is deeply familiar, that grounds the setting. 
And if I’m going to nitpick the back cover, which I obviously will, the reviews of the story as feminist are super confusing to me. I’m not sure that “women are brutal just like men” is feminist. I don’t think that makes it anti-feminist either, it seems like the wrong metric to evaluate the story. (I’m also not sold on the argument that the story, in its existing, is feminist. I find the description of a feminist as a person who believes in the radical notion that women are people to be helpful, but that strikes me as much less useful a way to understand a text. 
There has got to be a better way to say “the women in this book get to be complex like men” When the text itself isn’t really making an argument about feminism. 
None of this is the fault of the book, I just wanted it off my chest.