Lol, the prose is one of the few parts I unabashedly like. I’ve read Homer in Greek as well as works that take place in distant, ancient times, and I thought that the choice to mostly eschew Greek-root and even Latinate words was a good one. You go the feeling of pre-history, which considering princes in Bronze Age Greece were likely barely literate, this story was. If only it were in service of more interesting characters.

Nope, most of the costs of publishing books go into paying the author, the editors, typesetters, etc. Book and paper are usually sub $2 per volume when all is said and done.

Hot take: it’s not “feminist” to make a bunch of male characters the worst possible versions of themselves. I wasn’t overly fond of TSOA either, but making the characters misunderstood goody two shoes with modern morals is no worse than “they are all monsters.”