Hm, solid idea if not very original.
Plus point was that the origin of Gods was quickly and satisfying explained.
Biggest minus point was the at times extremely pompous sounding writing style. ("On the throne was sat a girl"? Really? At least stay consequent then and use it throughout and not go on with simple past in the next sentence.) Even if English is not my first language, I do think that I am pretty fluent, but some sentences were overly complicated written that I needed to reread them two or three times before I understood their meaning.
The majority of the characters were so so, the only one I kind of like and was interessted in was Inara. (Also doesn't help that Kissen means pillow in my native language, takes kind of away from the supposed "bad ass-ness".)

Overall I don't think that Ms Kaner was really sure what she all wanted to cover and some of the idea seemed to be thrown in there just to cover a certain group of readers, while other aspects of the life of our protagonits were very much glossed over.

And even though the book ends on a predicatable cliff hanger, I guess I want to know the ending now, but the story so far is not really re-read material. ( )

3.5
I almost DNFd this as I found it so hard to get into.
The opening was also quite shocking in its violence. Halfway through it picked up and I became invested. Loved the LGBTQIA and disability elements, but I found the latter romance a little forced.
I have some theories about inara. And I’m still not sold on skedi at all. The king also gave me tamlin vibes.
But I’m interested to see how this plays out and hope there’s more god interaction in the next one.

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