A third of the book is solidly the women's stories, up to about a half if you include the ways that the women's actions influence the men's narratives. Hartsuyker does a good job of writing women with agency whose actions are still constrained by their social context, and she doesn't glorify the raping and pillaging (even if her characters do). It's a carefully walked tightrope, but my patience for even that has been worn thin by all the standard heroic fiction that just glorifies it out of hand (if that makes sense).