Queer sci-fi? Divinity and saints and weird powers? That title?? There was seriously nothing about this book that wasn’t calling to me in some way. I honestly had such high hopes going into this, so maybe that ended up playing a part in my experience, but I just wasn’t as obsessed with this as I thought I was going to be (and no one is sadder about this than I am!) The toughest part is that it’s hard to actually put into words why this didn’t work, even after a couple of weeks of musing on it. I like confusing books, so it feels weird to say this book was too confusing. I also like slow books, so it also feels wrong to say this book was too slow. And I’ve loved books that are mainly internal journeys, and books where the main character is mildly insane, so I can’t exactly attribute my not loving this book to that either. It just feels more like, while the components of this book are everything I’d normally love, I just didn’t particularly love how they came together in this instance. For this reason, though, I can definitely still see myself at least trying the rest of the series, and enjoying other books by this author! The elements are all there for me, just not quite the configuration. And I’m certainly left intrigued by much in this book, to the extent that I can easily see the second book being a lot stronger now that a lot of the groundwork is already done!