This trilogy is amazing so far. I have no words for how much I enjoyed the first book, but since it basically hits every major (and most minor) trope I love, that's not surprising.

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I am (pleasantly) stunned and amazed that this book is delighting me just as much. It's easy to make me love the story of a dark god maligned by supporters of a more photogenic sibling/rival. Easy.

Make me fall in love with the story of the redemption of the god of light and order and all that stuff? Make me sympathize with him? Tha's hard. And I have no words for how much I love love love that this is a story about *redemption*.
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And hats off to the author for her gods; they seem real, they seem inhuman, they seem to be everything that things of their ilk *should* be, and so rarely are. Even more hats off for the multiracial society and the non-white leading ladies. There's really not enough of that in high fantasy.