Writing is awesome. 
 The plot sucks. It's almost like an ongoing series where interesting things happen to get the attention of the audience and then in later episodes they come up with stupid lazy reasons for them just so that they are resolved. The most prominent example being: 
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 The bishop has taken something from the alien ship. 
 Oh my god, what could it be? I should keep reading! 
 It is something that can manipulate gravity in a small room. 
 Oh. And what exactly is he planning to do with it? I bet it's somehow related to the machines we saw in the beginning. The whole thing is all a sham created by him to topple the captain right? 
 No. Actually he wasn't planning to do anything with it when he took it. But he suddenly gets an urge to kill the protagonist and decides to do it in the loudest, messiest, most obvious manner which is shaking him and the whole fucking cathedral up and down with his gravity machine. 
 Uhuh. And how exactly did he know where to find it and how to take it off the ship and then operate it? 
 Sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ? 
 (You better do because there's going to be a shitload of it in this book.) 
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 I would give it zero stars if the scary parts weren't so good.