This book left me feeling like a crazy person, because everyone seems to LOVE this book, and I can't for the life of me figure out WHY. 
 This felt like a first draft. A first draft for a series with vast potential, but a first draft nonetheless, and one that needs some major polishing. The book description says it is "Set in a phenomenally built world," but I didn't find that to be the case. Yes, it is unique and aspects of the magic and gods were intriguing, but I saw nothing that was built. On the contrary, we were given no real description of anything in this world. We were just told what was, in the most minimal way. Through most of the book, I had no idea what any of the characters looked like. Some rare authors can make that work, allowing readers to build their own ideas. This wasn't the case here. Every now and then, a random description of skin or hair color or style was thrown in, so if you HAD developed an idea in your head, you were probably wrong and had to try to envision the world all over again (often very late in the story). I stopped bothering. They were all just faceless blobs to me by the end. 
 The writing itself even drove me crazy. It was very flowery and wordy without saying much (see above). The metaphors were just so bad and there were so many. I felt like I was reading bits of high school English papers. That being said, the dialogue was actually quite good, which is what kept it from getting 1 star. It felt fairly natural and the humor was great. The dialogue was just so at odds with the style of the rest of the writing that it was a little exhausting. I wish more effort had been put into actually building up this unique world instead of what felt like showing off how many adjectives can be used in one sentence. I'm not talking about info dumps. I find the best world building is done through dialogue, and as awesome as the dialogue was in this book, it could've really been great. 
 Then there's the plot. I really just don't even know where to start with that. For starters, this is somewhat of a mystery, yeah? Who killed god and everything. Well, there was no point where I felt genuinely surprised. It wasn't necessarily that it was predictable... 
 Okay, here's what it is. I'm reading about this world I know nothing about and following around these characters I know nothing about, some of whom have magic that I don't understand and who worship deities in a pantheon that is never explained . How can I possibly be involved in the mystery of it all when I don't even know how the world works? Half the fun of a mystery is developing your own ideas and then getting to the end and finding out you're right OR (even better) that you were so very wrong, and here's what you missed. You can't do that in this book. Not only that, but at the end, all of this information is just dumped on us, telling us this is what happened. We never find out HOW certain people came to the conclusions they did. They just did. Deal with it. 
 Definitely not continuing this series. Glad some people enjoyed it, but man, this book was not for me at all.