I got ten hours into 45 (and it took two hours for a female character to show up!), but I'm officially giving up. There's just not enough for me to latch onto. The writing is bland and repetitive, the plot is way too drawn out, and I'm just kind of done with epic fantasy that's 95% male. Jasnah is the only interesting character, but she barely gets any page-time. There's also some weird gender segregation in having the women be the only ones who can read (but some males can read "glyphs") and having higher-born women cover their left hands at all times. 
 I don't enjoy posting negative reviews, but I'm a *huge* epic fantasy fan and almost no epic fantasy seems to be working for me lately. It's frustrating.