A review by shewriteswithknives
Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon

3.0

Thank you to MacMillan for the audio ARC, but I unfortunately cannot finish this book. First, the narrator's voice is grating, making the character seem dull. I tried to press forward to get a sense of our MC, Gem, and I couldn't get past how annoyingly Gem actually is. On top of that, there is so much rambling and unnecessary dialogue/train of thought, that I wonder why a better editor was not used. I lost count of how many times I heard the word "suddenly". And it is clear the editor never told the author to "show, don't tell".

I could tell this book was written by a man solely on how our female interest is described before I ever looked up the author. If you know, you know. How many times do we need to hear how small and petite she is?

The cover is beautiful, the premise of the story sounds wonderful, but the first 100 pages did nothing to pull me in. I had such high hopes for this.