The Grey Bastards

A solid 3 stars. It ramped up nicely in the second half and I felt like I knew the characters reasonably well. There's a lot more fleshing out that could be done in the next book, which is a nice way of building a series to keep the reader going.
The world-building was okay. I look forward to learning more about the world.
It was a clever way to portray traditional fantasy races with the idea of half-bloods and the racism angle that comes up. Nice to see a strong female lead too, even if she was a little thin in terms of back story. It would be nice to have had a POV shift to Fetch in a chapter or two to flesh her out a bit.
My favourite thing would have to be the hogs. They sound so cool!