Status Updates From The Lions of Al-Rassan

IDK. The writing is fabulous and GGKs character work/POVs are incredible as always, but for a book with themes around religion and religious extremism, if I was an alien who had never heard of the world’s 3 major religions or studied history and didn’t pick up the allegory, I would be like…why are they fighting? But maybe that’s the point?

Definitely slower paced than Tigana and the vibes are very “of course we want to wage holy wars” without a lot of on page description of how the religions operate/ their core beliefs.

So it does feel as the reader, i have to rely on what i know the irl religious allegory is supposed to represent in order to resonate with the depth of the character’s convictions vs having substantial world building