Oh, man, this book!
It’s weird in all the best ways of Ann Leckie and just brilliant and my reaction were basically:
Wait a minute, is this hamlet?
This IS hamlet!
That ophelia!?
Ahhh, crap, I just remembered how hamlet ends.

But also a meditation on the power of speech and gods and propitiation and what prayer and ויאמר/ויהי is and UGH. So good you guys.