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A review by essilles
Divinity 36 by Gail Carriger
3.0
took me a bit to get into it, but it picked up at around the fifty page mark (though don't expect action and mayhem, this is very much a character-centred story). i might have given it four stars, but the last ninety or so pages made it feel... i don't know, flat. for example:
a) i don't particularly enjoy missit. we meet him only a few times and yet he seems capricious, selfish, self-absorbed, and a whole host of other negative words. yes, he's hurting, but is he worth phex potentially risking his entire found family on (as kagee so rightly points out)? so the more we got of missit, the less i enjoyed the story.
b) the concept of divinity was an interesting bit of worldbuilding, but it felt kind of uncomfortable with phex obviously having some sort of feelings for missit yet clearly unable to see beneath the divinity. (see above, with phex rationalising his little tête-à-têtes with missit because missit needs it and who's he to deny a god?) might just be phex in need of some more character growth, but i hope this and its consequences are explored more in the sequels.
and this very much felt like just the first part of one whole book. i'm glad the sequels apparently focus on the dyesi and whatever the fuck they're planning, because i would have liked some more discussion on that in this one.
to end on a good note: loved the baby pantheon, their interactions, how they got to be a found family despite the odds, the softness. hopefully more of this in the sequels!
a) i don't particularly enjoy missit. we meet him only a few times and yet he seems capricious, selfish, self-absorbed, and a whole host of other negative words. yes, he's hurting, but is he worth phex potentially risking his entire found family on (as kagee so rightly points out)? so the more we got of missit, the less i enjoyed the story.
b) the concept of divinity was an interesting bit of worldbuilding, but it felt kind of uncomfortable with phex obviously having some sort of feelings for missit yet clearly unable to see beneath the divinity. (see above, with phex rationalising his little tête-à-têtes with missit because missit needs it and who's he to deny a god?) might just be phex in need of some more character growth, but i hope this and its consequences are explored more in the sequels.
and this very much felt like just the first part of one whole book. i'm glad the sequels apparently focus on the dyesi and whatever the fuck they're planning, because i would have liked some more discussion on that in this one.
to end on a good note: loved the baby pantheon, their interactions, how they got to be a found family despite the odds, the softness. hopefully more of this in the sequels!