** spoiler alert ** 
 WHAT A BOOK. 
 Basically any story that begins with the line "It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure you bring an army of sufficient size" is going to be a hit with me. 
 I enjoyed the writing, and the pacing, and the characters! I enjoyed watching Nona grow towards the Sister Cage we see briefly in the prologue and the epilogue. 
 (This review is a mess, I'm aware) 
 I also like the fact that there's a few veiled references to same sex relationships, ignored for the most part by our protagonist who is too young and preoccupied with being hunted by a powerful family to really focus on them. 
 But more than ANYTHING else, I love that this is at its heart, a sci-fi book. It's set on a colonised planet some unimaginable distance in the future, rotating around a dying sun and with a thin strip of land around the equator maintained by a giant orbital mirror. And yet, it also reads as an excellent fantasy. 
 I'm very much looking forward to the next one.