A review by aardwyrm
God of Mercy by Okezie Nwoka

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Rough and transcendent, a storyteller's cadence and a butcher's efficient brutality interrogating religion, identity, community, and other subjects so deep under the skin you can't see them without bleeding.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Racism, Rape, Ableism, Blood, Death of parent, Excrement, Sexism, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicide, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Trafficking, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, and Suicide attempt