Review

This book is a slow read.  I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way, just that it is by no means fast-paced.  Eda grew on me as a character, but I never really liked her, which was probably my issue with the whole book.  Honestly, I didn’t really care about any of the characters, which was kept me from really getting into the book.  In general, this book lacked emotion.  

I also think, and I don’t know that I have ever said this before, that this would have been better as two separate books.  This book was long and there was a lot happening, and I think that perhaps too much was crammed into one book.

The world-building was great!  I understood about the different gods, which was important given what a large part of the story they were.  The government was fairly clear as was the actual layout of the world. While I admire all of this world-building I do think the book focused too much on it and not enough on the story.