Review: Good Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2011
This was an enjoyable book.It tells the story of a woman who becomes embroiled in an ongoing contest of domination between various celestial gods and their human followers.  As the story progresses, we discover that the woman was actually ensorcelled at birth by a minion of one of the greater gods to unwittingly free that greater god from imprisonment.  This earns her unwilling adoption by that god as his high priest leading to her even further involvement in both human and celestial conflicts.The author has created an interesting if somewhat complicated setting for his story.  We find a mostly human conflict between the residents of the protagonist's homeland and the human kingdom that conquered it.  We have an ancient conflict between greater gods (who all start the book being imprisoned) and their human followers.  We have panoply of lesser gods whose ambitions and questionable loyalties to the greater gods lead to conflicts of their own.  Then we have three somewhat aloof "super gods" with their own agenda of who are the ones who had imprisoned the greater gods.  Now the good news is that this backdrop is revealed naturally; so we aren't fed the world's history through some artificial mechanism like our protagonist attending a "school history lesson".  Of course that means you'd better pay attention throughout the book.  If I could make one suggestion:  an organization chart or other graphical presentation of this interesting but somewhat complicated world.As to the story itself, while it was brisk and interesting, I do wish it had been longer.  I don't like the bloat that some authors add to fantasy books.  However, while the characters aren't devoid of development, I think they could have been fleshed out a bit more; particularly the main character.  As it is, the length of the book is somewhere between what I would consider a novella and a more typical novel's length.Having said that, it was certainly worth the kindle price and I look forward to reading the sequel.