“How do you ever get things done?” She snorted rudely, looking at the others in her delegation with mirth. “This is ridiculous. A man can’t be in charge. We should go.”
Where the hell is this coming from? We're in the third book now and this is the first time you've mentioned any kind of matriarchical bias to any culture.
reading on, obviously an amazon culture, but i shouldn't have to be confused for two pages. You could have someone lean over and whisper "she's part of the amazon delegation" or something just so it immediately makes sense.