Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I don't read much fantasy anymore, but I decided to pick something up to read during a vacation. I noticed this book on a few "best X fantasy novels" types of lists. Is this what people call good fantasy now? What the heck is going on with all of these 5-star ratings? The characters are profoundly uninteresting; the protagonist and his wish fulfillment magical creature being the most obvious offenders. I would not be able to name one character trait the protagonist is supposed to have to save my life. We are supposed to believe that his harem, the village women and the magical girl, see him as this wonderful man, but it is absolutely impossible to see any endearing traits about him even when in his harem's POV. The magical girl's personality consists of two things: (1) being vacantly happy about everything going on until she finds she needs to smite something and then has the power to do so (2) wanting to bang the completely bland and uninspiring male lead. Then, there are the village women who are supposedly healers and mid-wives who don't seem to have any real dialogue except for bickering with each other. The plot arc was... Well... Lacking in arc... The author actually creates "suspense" several times via leaving out information that is common knowledge to the characters themselves. In other words, the story is not woven so that you are hungry for more or curious about what happens next, but knowledge that the main characters have is simply left out so that the reader does not know what is going on. I think it was on purpose to create some counterfeit version of suspense. I didn't know it was possible to read something worse than the first few books of the Sword of Truth series, but this one takes the cake. Thank god I only spent 4 bucks on the kindle version.