Darien

First 60% were 10/10, character driven, with some original concepts and good story (felt 90% like reading Abercrombie, just without his more Tarantino-esque humor/over the top occurences). Also good flowing writing and good rhythm.

Unfortunately, the last 30% are quite bad, 4/10 bad and consists only of "action! Action!! ACTION!!!" and bad at that also, since the character development becomes useless or even strongly inconsistent (Nancy) and the author is not good at writing battles, neither at 1st person POV, nor in the tactical view.

Will not read the rest of the series.

Might be useful to mention i read Iggulden before: loved the Genghis series, but disappointed with Lion of Sparta (mediocre to lame) and Dunstan (straight up bad).