Was all in at beginning. enjoyed the character development and story. Then throughout, around book 3 or 4 author layered in more faith based subjects and language, which is fine if you are into that but wasnt as present before and got thicker. it took me out of a general experience.
After a while, despite the language around god, faith, etc, there was a prevelant misogynistic theme. All the dudes were dudes/manly. all the insults they threw at each other were feminine like being sissies or dont be such a pansy/p*ssy etc. Author began to get on a soapbox about manly men and alpha males and how tough you had to be all the time, even using meterosexual and being from California insulting. It was a big turn off.
Then I began to notice while all the guys were manly all the main character women were beautiful or hot or sexy. like in order to be good or worth the men they had to be hot. Even the Antagonist of the story had to be the sexiest/most beautiful woman ever. conversely the uglier a character was or more foreign the more evil. the author even made a Sudanese/black guy a main villain in one of the earlier books. Implying certain things. The “ginger” in an earlier book was ugly physically and the most evil.
it got heavy handed the later the books went on.
Narrator was fine but the dialects/accents all sounded like they were mexican/latin. the sudanese, chinese, and haitian characters all had similar accents with not a lot of distinction.
Also, narrator, please research more spanish pronunciation. very broken and sometimes hard to understand.