i adore the tarot sequence! it's not without warts, and i think in the later books he starts leaning into found family feel good stuff a BIT heavier than literary quality requires, but it's still so fun, and so - imbued by enjoyment, i think? both authorial and mine. (and yes, there will be more female characters as things move forward, and one of the thing that i took for the unchecked authorial benign misogyny is actually a clever plot point!)