Realm of the Elderlings is my favorite series of all time and its written by a woman, but every other book series ive read that ive liked has been written by a man. Not sure how to describe how most books I tried written by woman in the past felt other than the audience not feeling like me. Realm of the elderlings I never had this issue, I enjoyed following the female protoganists and the fool even if I dont identify with how they feel, so I think its not necessarily the main character being a male for half the series being why I like it.
I just typically dont like men written by woman like woman rightfully dont like woman written by most male authors, since it tends to be done poorlly. Looking for series/authors that do a good job of representing both genders and writing for them, not misrepresenting either or acting like its the only thing that defines them and all their actions.
I hadn't really considered the sex of the authors in what I've read, but looking at my shelves and picking some feminine names in the genre:
These aound really interesting ill check them out, death gate cycle sounds like it has a hard magic system? Always a fan of that
Its something ill check once some dialouge or character motivations start to throw me off, and if it effects like a whole gender not just a few characters