Immediately I was put off by the fact that there's a queen in this who fights like a man. There's a couple of scenes where women fight with swords.

And I just hate these scenes, because no women can fight with swords. Zero women can fight with a sword.

What I mean by that is in a situation where you are fighting men who are used to fighting with swords, you are going to get killed if you are a woman fighting with a sword 100 percent of the time.

A woman with a sword could kill somebody who doesn't know how to fight with a sword. But in a war situation, where you are swinging this five to ten pound sword again and again and again, against much, much, much stronger men, they are going to kill you.

They should have made the character a man. She's a man. She's gross. She swaggers around and she rips into the meat and tears it with her teeth and curses people.

It was a feminist statement and I was like 'please, give me a break.' I don't if that is in the book but this is not the way that any woman behaves.