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Decided not to finish this because it's so poorly researched. Just in the first 15% there's a lot of questionable history and weird anachronism — for example, eyeglasses weren't invented until the 1200s, but Mathias' father had one apparently? (It would have been a reading stone, not an eyeglass.) I was willing to shrug off the anachronisms since it's fantasy until this line in chapter nine: "In the myths and legends that [Leto] had grown up on, the girls did not—well, they did not do very much at all besides an awful lot of weaving." I can't take a book seriously when the author admitted to not reading the literature it's based on, but still writes lines like that. Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad would be a better use of my time.