so, would you agree with some of this good reads review? Are they being overly dramatic about it all? I just looked up the reviews and I'll admit I'm not that excited about this one.

Good read review. All are constantly fighting and rarely seem to like or care for one another. The protagonist's romantic relationship was pretty much the breaking point for me. I felt like I was constantly being told they were passionately in love, and then shown a couple that was, at best, passionately in lust and violently abusive toward one another. And I simply couldn't reconcile Onye's actions toward Mwita with her presentation as a determined crusader against their society's misogyny. The plot itself was fairly standard prophecized quest fantasy until the end, when it veered off into metaphysics that seemed unsupported by anything that came before. The world, in contrast, was unusual for the genre, and well-drawn. If the protagonists had been more pleasant to spend time with, I would have appreciated the travelogue experience. As it was, I had to grit my teeth to get through it. I might try something else by this author, if I was promised characters who actually enjoyed each other's company, but it wouldn't be high on my priority list.")