Y'know, I think I may have finally reached the point in my career where I feel shy to review a book by someone I've met. Nora Jemisin and I were on a panel together last summer at SDCC, and I thought she was awesome. She's scary smart, and she calls 'em like she sees 'em. 
 Then I get around to reading one of her books at last, and I liked most of it but some of it I didn't, and... here I am half-frozen with anxiety. So. How about that. 
 If you find theological fantasy inherently interesting (which I do), you might give this a try. Outsider, PoC heroine. Decent mystery. I thought the ending was well done. It kept me turning pages, for sure, and I really did mostly enjoy it. 
 My gripe, and this wouldn't be a gripe for everyone, was that the whole thing was pretty uncomplicated. From the prose style, to the characters, to the worldbuilding, to even the theology, I felt like we were skimming along the surface more than I liked or would have expected. Plotty it was, but even that... Yeine keeps drawing conclusions about things before the reader is anywhere near the same conclusion, and we just kind of have to take her word for it. 
 There. *phew!* That wasn't so terrifying.