I liked this well enough, but I think there's a fine line between universal themes and stereotypes, and this fell a little closer to the latter for my tastes. It just seems such an obvious backstory - Boo hoo, the gods have been bad to me, therefore I shall reject them. I'm an atheist myself, and sometimes it gets a little same old, same old when literature constantly expects turning away from religion to come from some great tragic saga of undeserved misery. I mean, I suppose a person rational enough to examine the evidence and say "Nope, not really that convincing, thank you," is probably not the type to go on a murderous spree, but still. This is old hat.