I like the brutality.

In other books, characters needlessly torture themselves mentally over morals. I'm a bitter 35 year old, and I'm still learning that morals are in the eye of the beholder as well as unimportant when your mind can only focus on your own survival. It's a relief to see this be less of a foundational stumbling block. Randidly is forced into a living PTSD state, which has some consequences, but he acknowledges that and moves on. The lady spear helper, Helen I think, is funny. I'm curious what the Yeti will do or think when it learns it has been completely wrong.