A very well-written dark fantasy. The author didn’t try to reinvent the wheel, basing his world very closely on Scandinavia and Kievan Rus, with names like Yaromir, and “hundathral” being a “dog slave”.
In a typical nowadays manner, the story switches between multiple characters.
One rather funny decision is that half of warriors in this world are female. Which led to an uncanny situation where a lot of women are portrayed as brutal, agressive and rather unpleasant.
When I think of Orca, I imagine Gina Carano:
There are a lot of interesting details not found in other books. Leather covers on spear heads. The fact that characters drink and fill their water bottles, or that they cauterize their wounds.