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Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon

18 reviews

wormiebrains's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Content warning is word for word what was stated in the audio book but it sounds a lot worse than what I felt it was, especially in reference to the graphic warnings excluding the violence and murder as there is a lot of physical fighting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Gore, Torture, Body horror, and Sexual violence

Minor: Ableism, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Transphobia, and Self harm

cactuspunk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child abuse, and Sexual content

madscientistcat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Mental illness, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Physical abuse

ilsevdhout's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Physical abuse, Animal death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Sexual violence, and Racism

danzibooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

5 stars, no notes, the most deliciously, viciously, villainously unhinged book I've read in a long time! And that ending??? Baybeeeeee!  

**please read the content warning that is thoughtfully provided by the author**

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Violence

mel_muses's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and War

Minor: Torture, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

inlibrisveritas's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to love this. It has a poly-ship, messy gods/immortals with grey morality, non-binary/trans rep, etc. BI'm no stranger to main characters who screw up, make bad choices, or take detours into villainy but there were times when the tone sort of became disjointed? 

As it is, I'm interested in the sequel but I'll probably wait a bit after it's release to try it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gore, Toxic relationship, and Death

instalovewithbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Thank you to NG for an e-arc and St. Martins Press for a gifted finished copy. All opinions are my own.

God, I adored this book. 

Godly Heathens is one of my most anticipated releases this year - and it did not disappoint. 

I received this e-arc version, but surprisingly I was gifted a finished copy and honestly lost my fucking mind. 

H.E. Edgmon is a brilliant author, 

I have to do this in point form to even bring across all the points for this book: 
- The trans and queer joy.
- "Gods are not cis" ugh god this was so good but makes so much sense like why would a god be cis when they are above our gender norms?
- All the characters. They were so fucking good. Even the ones you're suppose to "hate" you end up loving them.
- Plot twists. There was a good portion of them but they didn't make the story seem silly or that Edgmon was just doing it for the "wow" factor.

I do not know when book 2 is coming out but I need it immediately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Gun violence

the_b00kreader's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

In this book we follow Gem Echols as they realise their life is not as it seems. Gem is the reincarnated God of magic...this may seem pretty cool until they also find out that the other gods have a few deep-rooted grudges against them.

I was vividly entertained throughout the entirety of this book and found it to be a pretty swift read. 
The plot in itself was really well drawn up and executed with plenty of thought going into it. The characters were really well developed and had dimension. 
The only character that fell a little flat for me at first was Enzo, he was a little predictable.

I loved H.E. Edgmon's depiction of the gods and their home world, the Ether, although I will admit I'd love to know more about it and feel as though, in the next books, I might be able to do just that. 

Being inside Gem's mind was certainly an experience. They had so many conflicting emotions when it came to making some of the greater decisions and I feel everything was portrayed splendidly. I cannot wait to see what comes next for Gem and the others but I can only guess it is not going to be an easy journey.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Death, War, Bullying, Torture, Genocide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Thanks to Wednesday Books for the free copy of this book.

 - Wow, this book. GODLY HEATHENS is H.E. Edgmon leaning into his full talent as a writer of angry, messy, queer af kids desperate to find their place in the world.
- The mythology here is so cool, and so detailed and tangled I could believe it was real. And the "real world" people and plot threads felt messily real, too.
- This book mashes together queerness and small towns and mental illness and thousand year old gods and it works beautifully. I can't wait to see what happens next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Mental illness, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Sexual content, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts