Oh god LKH writing swingers. Yeah, I won't be reading any more of this one. I hate LKH's worldbuilding (which is basically nonexistent) and writing style and main character from word one, and the early books don't have the trainwreck quality to keep me entertained.

I read lots of books with female main characters before 1993, mostly in the sword and sorcery genre. Back then I would only read books with female main characters (unless they were by Agatha Christie), and I never felt a lack of reading material.