Rating this 2.5 stars because it was just okay, but there's too many complaints from me to justify giving it 3 stars.

You know how H.P. Lovecraft was SUPER racist even back in a time when being racist was the social norm? This felt like that for me. I felt like the author was trying way too hard to hit every single nasty stereotype he could think of and went out of his way to be exaggeratedly racist. You can write the book without all that.

He also babbled. Both with the descriptions and the dialogue. There was so much extra words being used it read like one of those essays in schools where you're just trying to hit a word count. Which also made it kind of boring. I ended up speeding this audiobook up to 2.5. I NEVER listen to audiobooks on 2.5 but there was so much extra wordage on the page, and the narrator talked so slow, that it was necessary. 

I'm also going to complain about the way he wrote the women, despite it probably being the normal viewpoint of that time period, but they were just there to further the plot. They were constantly abducted and in danger and in the way. Their sole purpose was to be abducted and to get in the way it seemed. Characters in books that exist for no reason other than to be an unnecessary plot point irritate me. Why'd you do them like that?

And circling back to what I said about the babbling - every single time Hawk-eye spoke? We don't need to be reminded every other conversation that he's a white man. It was redundant and got annoying after the third time. And then it just kept going. 

At least now I can say that I've read this, I guess. It was fine. Subpar, if you will.