This review is spoilery -- and it's less a review than a list of reasons I gave to a friend, who is as interested in mythology and worldbuilding as I am, for why the book was right up their alley. Since I'd written it, I thought it was worth sharing. 
 I think Three Parts Dead has incredible worldbuilding. I find Gladstone's cosmology fascinating, as well. The world feels to me as though it has entire histories and mythologies just beneath the surface. 
 (view spoiler)[It revolves around issues of -- and the nature of -- faith. It also looks at what happens when faith is broken or misused. The whole idea of Justice is what happens when people reform a god to fit their own needs. That balance between a people's responsibility to a god and a god's responsibility to the people is quite intriguing to me, and while it may not entirely gel with the worldview of the members of the Inklings, I think exploring matters of faith through fiction certainly does. Tied in with that is the sense of the numinous, which, by the end, I think comes through very clearly. 
 While I think that the main characters do have a lot going for them in the talent department, I also think that they feel like ordinary people taking on great things. Probably closer to the right analogy -- they're more like entry level people taking on something far above their pay grade, so there's a feeling of the small dealing with the great reflected in the story. 
 I also find the prose very stylistically appealing -- the scene near the beginning where Tara stretches out her soul like a parachute is beautifully described. (hide spoiler)]