Third Heaven's Throne

by Devyn Kennedy

God has gone missing, and not simply between the sheets of the mortal residents of Perido.With little recourse, the rival religious groups, the church of Iron and Chapel of Steam, do the unthinkable and hire a firm of necromancers to track their missing deity.Enter Emma Elric, apprentice to Lyceum, and new-hire to Abelworth, Cain, and Lyceum. Eager to impress her boss, Emma will do whatever it takes, including selling parts of what makes her up. Goh Si-Woo and Caitlyn Alderberry had devoted themselves to Iaralie. As the first to notice their God's disappearance, their anxiety has them working together, despite how bad it looks, to save the one thing that's given their lives meaning. The deeper they dig, the more their world changes, and the more they are forced to reexamine their beliefs.Third Heaven's Throne is about belief, how the stories we're told shape the world, and what happens when powerful people control those stories. It is full of flesh and bones, misery, anxiety, terrible jokes, and queer love.

488 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2021

Reviews

[Fern Bedek · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quite interesting novel. The prose was deeply poetic, to a level I envy as a writer. On rare occasion maybe a touch too poetic for me to easily follow, and there were some minor formatting/spelling flaws that I mistook for extra poetic sentences, but... that's nitpicking.
The world building had all sorts of very interesting ideas about a darkly realistic use of magic, some of which will probably influence my own future writings. And the main cast were all very believable and fleshed out folks.

[Jayla Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5: A novel I'm glad to have read

I found this book because it was recommended by one of my favorite authors; one who specializes in darkly intimate queer fantasy, which is where I'd say this novel falls as well. I will admit that the overall story is a bit less cohesive than I usually prefer, and there are several noticeable errors, but I did come away from the ending loving the characters and enjoying my time spent in their world.

Recommended for anyone who enjoys dark fantasy, is looking for something cozy (so much as necromancy and blood pacts can be) and unique, and can overlook the odd rough patch of text.

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

giving up on this one. I wanted to like this and I did like the sample but as I got further into the book I realized that I had probably bought the book because the premise reminded me of Max Gladstone's Craft series and then failed to live up to that standard.

I have since stated and finished several book since then so I think it is probably better ifI just admit to laying this one aside more or less permanently.