This book kind of sucks. A lot. I'm not done with it but I'm like 180 pages into a 300 page story and it's been boring as hell, over bloated with stuff we really didn't need reiterated so much and just generally lacking interesting prose or dialogue. They keep cutting into chapters to focus on the villains but all you ever get out of them is them going an about how they don't like Conan very much. I've only read a medium bit of Conan pastiche but this is just dullsville.