#skedi

[needynova]

the TENSION between Kissen and Elogast got me screaming and kicking my feet begging them to kiss already

#godkiller #hannah kaner #kissen #elogast #inara #skedi #skediceth #fantasy #books #bookish #elo #booklover #my post #gods

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2023 reads // twitter thread    

Godkiller

High fantasy world where gods are outlawed after a devastating war

A god killing mercenary, a knight turned Baker, a 12yo girl and the little animal god-of-white-lies bonded to her, end up traveling together to the destroyed city at the centre of the conflict

queer & disabled characters

#Godkiller #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i really enjoyed this for the most part! #well actually i was like this is amazing 5 stars then the romance happened and i was like generic boring forgettable #(i mean it's a solid 4 stars but like) #WHY........was that necessary....... #it's just. so interesting to have a strange little collection of people from different walks of life in a group #and they suddenly you make the romance a thing and it's like oh....A Man And Woman In Love And A Child wow groundbreaking #(i fully had some fanart drafted but the romance happening sucked all the motivation for that out of me lmao) #i am exaggerating a little but idk #i love skedi!!!! #maybe i am a little afraid of skedi

[rockingthegraveyard]

TEARS OF THE KINGDOM TIME! 

#my dad dove right into it #already having a lot of fun #i was in the middle of dinner #but as soon as i slurp up this skedy it's fucking zelda time #.

[mercerislandbooks]

Book Notes: Fantasy Roundup

Or, some ideas for what to read when you have a book hangover from Iron Flame:

Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle

When Emory is the sole survivor of a secret ritual in the caves below Aldryn College, her healer powers, given to those born during the new moon on a rising tide, begin to shift into something strange and uncontrollable. Will her estranged friend Baz, brother to one of the students who died, help Emory figure out her new powers and what really happened that night? This debut fantasy has it all — dark academia, an upper YA that crosses over beautifully into adult, a murder mystery, secret societies, forbidden magic, a pining romance and the most gorgeous book design I’ve seen in a while. The magic system is built around the moon phases and the tides. Curious Tides is book one of a planned duology.

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

What happens when Talasyn and Alaric, two soldiers from opposite sides of an entrenched war meet on the battlefield and discover their opposing powers combine to create something entirely new and unexpected? They continue to absolutely hate each other while having to work together to save their people from an even worse fate. Of course. And we all know what happens when two attractive people hate each other. Drawing inspiration from Southeast Asia, debut Filipino author Thea Guanzon has penned a fun, fresh fantasy that balances an authentic depiction of the toll of conflict on a population with a strong cast of characters and all the political machinations of Machiavelli. The Hurricane Wars is book one of a planned trilogy.

Godkiller by Hannah Kane

In a world where gods, fed by the attention, prayers, and offerings of humans, can also be destroyed by them, three disparate people come together to travel to the ruined city that was the last stand in the wars between gods and people. Kissen, a godkiller for hire. Elo, a former knight turned baker. And Inara, a young girl whose life has become intertwined with a god of white lies, Skedi. The four travel together to Blenraden, hopeful that they will find a way to untangle Skedi from Inara. All the feels of quest fantasy with characters that are delightfully flawed and human. The world building was immersive and queer normative with a host of diverse characters. The religious and magic system was at once familiar but with enough twists to make it unexpected. Godkiller is book one of a planned trilogy.

The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab

From page one of The Fragile Threads of Power, I was invested all over again in the world of the four Londons, seven years after the events from The Shades of Magic trilogy (also excellent, if you want to start there). The plot works together like interchanging gears, or a chess game, the movement of each character affecting the others, often unknowingly. There are characters from the original trilogy, new additions, and Tes, the one who, unconsciously, holds the key to everything. Schwab investigates power in this novel -- who has it and who controls it, and by whose standards its morality is judged. Schwab puts a lot of things in motion in this book, and only a few are resolved by the end. The Fragile Threads of Power is book one of planned trilogy. You can always go back and read The Shades of Magic series in the meantime!

What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

I can’t think of a more fun combination than 1880’s Egyptian archeological digs, a feisty heroine determined to find out what happened to her explorer parents, and a current of magic running through it all. When Inez Olivera hears that her parents, on a dig in Egypt, are presumed dead, she takes matters into her own hands. Inez books passage from Bolivia to Egypt, intent on discovering the truth. What she finds in Egypt is an infuriatingly handsome young man, assisting her guardian in carrying on her parents discoveries, and men thwarting her inquiries at every turn. Add to this a mysterious ring that connects Inez to the magic of the past and the questions continue to pile up. It will take a trip up the Nile and many near escapes just to get Inez closer to any answers. Packed with action, a slow burn romance, and a huge twist kept me enthralled to the very last page. What the River Knows is book one of a planned YA duology.

Hopefully you find one, or many, of these titles to be a satisfying read!

— Lori

#island books #lori robinson #book notes #fantasy reads #ya fantasy #curious tides #pascale lacelle #hurricane wars #godkiller #hannah kaner #v. e. schwab #fragile threads of power #isabel ibanez #what the river knows #thea guanzon

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Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins. Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favour. Pursued by demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning – something is rotting at the heart of their world, and only they can be the ones to stop it.

#book: godkiller #author: hannah kaner #genre: fantasy #genre: mythology #genre: lgbt #year: 2020s

[the-angriest-bunny-of-the-fandom]

Honestly I pictured Skedi from Godkiller way more cartoonish than any of the images I've seen off him so far

#godkiller #Godkiller Hannah kaner #bookblr #sapphic books #The fallen gods trilogy #TFGT #Skediceth

[draghons]

I had to have the @illumicrate version of Sunbringer. Isn't it gorgeous? I am in love with the edges, which perfectly lines up with the Godkiller ones! Skedi looks so cute on both. My review is up on the blog today, link in bio! Thanks so much to @harpervoyagerus for providing me with an ARC via NetGalley.

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Godkiller Hannah Kaner • Adult Fantasy (Godkiller #1), 2023, 304 pg• amputee ambulatory wheelchair user bisexual female MC with a prosthetic leg; male MC with PTSD; female MC; male MC Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a…

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February Wrap-Up

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Favorite Read of the Month:

Solita by Vivien Rainn (GR review)

It’s only through facing the past and her buried fears can Sadie find salvation as she upturns the Hacienda’s twisted roots, roots born from the faith and fire of the conquistas, the Spaniards who came from distant shores, bringing with them not only their God, but also their demons.

THE gothic romance. This book changed my perspective on romance books. I've thought about this book regularly since I read it.

"In my time," he continues, voice low, "sanctity was measured by suffering. Those saints that abstained from the pleasures of life, fasted to starvation, mortified their flesh, drank the blood of the wounded - it was only they who saw the eyes of God, it was only through their agony that they were touched by true divinity, enraptured by their own faith."

"I...I'm not a saint, Silas." Her eyes meet his in a gaze that's wrapped up in the promise for everything she's always denied herself. The promise of temptation for the taste of that forbidden fruit, a single bite all it takes for irreversible expulsion, for an eternal fall from grace.

"I never said you were."

The warmth of his breath is so close to her own, heat mingling, pulses flush close. "Then what are you saying?"

"That I am," he answers. "I found God. And I'm looking into her eyes."

HELLO???? THIS QUOTE HAS IRREVOCABLY CHANGED HOW I READ ROMANCE BOOKS. THIS IS THE STANDARD.

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Rest of Books Read Under the Cut:

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Undertakers by Nicole Glover (sequel)

The second book in the Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post–Civil War Philadelphia.

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god - now, she makes a living killing gods. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, who bound himself to a young noble, and are on the run from assassins.

The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux (GR review)

Best friends Adelle and Connie love of a little-known gothic romance novel called Moira. When they find a way to enter the book, suddenly everything isn't how they remember.

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton (GR review)

It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Out at sea things begin happening. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Strange symbols appear on the sails. Livestock is slaughtered. And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel.

The Song of the Sandman by J.F. Dubeau (GR review) (sequel)

After a terrible mass shooting at Cicero’s Circus, the evil presence responsible for the carnage is taken in by a doomsday cult lying in wait for such an opportunity.

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko

For nearly two decades, medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. Michael West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart.

Hell's Half-Acre by Susan Jonusas

In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas discovered the remains of countless bodies, and below the cabin was a cellar stained with blood. The cabin's family, the Benders, were nowhere to be found, sparking a frenzy that continued for decades.

Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton

In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell.

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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Born to be Hanged by Keith Thomson

The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships.

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Books read so far this year: 21

How I rate books.

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Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

5 Stars.

I love this series, these characters, this world. Everything. Last year Godkiller was my favourite book and despite the fact it's still early in the year I have the strong belief that Sunbringer is at least going to be in the top 3.

We pick up pretty much immediately after the ending of Godkiller. Elo, Skedi and Inara all convinced Kissen is dead and travel back to Kissen's home city where her family is to for one, give them the news and to prepare for what they need to do to stop King Arryn from his plans. While I silently screamed at the pages because Kissen isn't dead instead she's in a different country doing what she does. Killing Gods.

Now I don't like spoiling so I won't go heavily into this but I will say, I loved this so much and the relationships that were made in Godkiller being expanded in this and oh my everything else that just made me scream. In a good way.

Massive recommend.

Finished Feb 29th.

#Sunbringer #Hannah Kaner #Fallen Gods #Godkiller #Fantasy #found family #booklr #book recs

[elliepassmore]

Godkiller review

5/5 stars Recommended if you like: high fantasy, gods and goddesses, multiple POVs, complex characters, disability rep This book was absolutely fantastic. I loved the characters and the worldbuilding, the adventure and the magic. It's a relatively short book and I zoomed through it and now I desperately need the sequel. In this world, gods used to be as common as loose change. Since the god war though, they've been slowly killed until many of the old and wild gods are dead and the ones that still exist remain hidden. I always like worlds like this, where there are gods aplenty and you just sort of 'pick some,' and this is no exception. I also liked that the gods could take different forms, though some of them remained in one form (like Skedi). The book also deals a lot with the different ways gods are created, maintained, and destroyed, which I found to be super interesting. Despite the erasure of the gods from everyday life, and the unity that seemed to exist for at least a short while after the god war, Middren is a country on the brink. On the bring of rebellion, on the brink of religion. We come across a lot of different people throughout the book, some in support of the king and his policies (or at least uncaring enough about them) and others who are completely against both, and then of course some that fall somewhere in the middle. I really liked seeing the wide range of people the three/four MCs come across and liked the feeling of complexity associated with them. The settings were also rich and I wished I could step through the pages and be in Lesscia or on the road with the gang (not so much Blenraden, but I am intrigued). Kaner does a good job of not just capturing what the world around the characters looks like, but also what it sounds and smells like. The imagery felt very vibrant and each of the main settings is distinct enough to leave an impression. For the characters themselves, Kissen is definitely my favorite. She's a godkiller, has been equally loved and reviled by gods, and is world-weary enough to be gruff about it. Kissen is 100% the poster child for 'grumpy character with a heart of gold' and it shows. I like how complex she is as a character. Yes, she's a godkiller, but she doesn't kill them discriminately, just when asked because they've become dangerous to the humans worshipping them. Likewise, she makes sure people know the god part of godkiller is the important part, she's not one to kill other people. She definitely becomes more open during the course of the book, and considering what that means in terms of her travel companions and ideologies, I'm going to call that character growth. I'm very interested in seeing where book 2 takes her. Inara is my second favorite. She's a pre-teen girl tethered to a godling, and if that wasn't enough, it seems nobody outside her noble house even knows she exists. After having nearly 24 hours to think about the book, secrets, and characters, I'm fairly certain I know why, but I'm definitely still intrigued and am curious to see how the next book deals with that question. Inara definitely has to shoulder a lot throughout the book, but she actually handles things pretty well and even if she has an attitude sometimes, I'm inclined to think she's entitled to it. She's the kind of person too who may be freaked out by what's going on but will jump to action if she thinks it's the right thing. Skediceth, Skedi, is a curious one. He's Inara's godling (or Inara is his worshipper, whatever), and it's immediately clear that he cares about her and enjoys being her companion, even if he wants to find his own shrine and be free. At the same time, despite that love, Skedi also has a huge capacity for making terrible choices...but at least he realizes it, lol. I also really liked the description of him as a size-changing wolpertinger (or winged jackalope). Elogast, Elo, is an ex-knight-turned-baker who used to be BFFs with the king back when they were boys and the current king wasn't even really a consideration for the throne. Like Kissen, Elo is pretty world-weary, just for somewhat different reasons. While he's put his knighting behind him, Elo is still drawn by loyalty and a mile-wide streak of justice to go on his quest. I think his character is particularly interesting because he's dealing not just with his past, but what he's missed of the present re: evolution of Middren since the war. He really does desire to put things right, whether it be with his king or with Inara or with random strangers, but that desire sometimes also blinds him to the bigger picture. I still really enjoy his character and want to know how he handles things going forward. Something I think Kaner does quite well is her inclusion of mental illness and disabilities. Kissen is an amputee that uses both a prosthetic leg and a wheelchair at different points in the book. While she uses her prosthetic for most of the book, Kaner includes little details about it and how it affects her in the day-to-day and when fighting so that Kissen's disability isn't just brushed off as 'oh she can walk with a prosthetic, moving on'. Kissen's adoptive sister/friend, Yatho, also uses a wheelchair, and Yatho's wife, Telle, is Deaf and uses sign language. Kissen and Inara also use sign with each other when they don't want other people overhearing. Elo fought in the god war and, as a natural progression of that, has PTSD (though it isn't called that in the book). There are moments when he suffers from tremors and flashbacks, and I liked how he turns to kneading bread as a stim/comfort action. There are a lot of really interesting things going on in this book and I'm eager to see where they lead in book 2. I definitely recommend this if you're in the mood for an epic fantasy and it makes for a great quick read.

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Godkiller character descriptions for fanart.

Full entry (including spoilers) and database link in pinned post!

Kissen

The leg was finely made, a mixture of briddite and steel wrapped in leather, shifting plates that were light as bone . right leg

gold canine

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sea-grey eyes

Kissen often drew looks: a reddish-headed Talician with a longsword, a cutlass, and a broken curse on her face.

Kissen reached inside her waxwool cloak, tracing her fingers over her pockets of relics and totems, tools and incense, the tricks of her trade.

The woman was sitting at a table wearing leather that looked hard enough to be used as armour and just low enough at the throat to show a tattoo at the top of her chest, a kind of loose spiral.  Her looks were Talician – pale and freckled, and her auburn hair cropped by her ears and bound in place with some rough-tossed braids and a leather band.

as she smiled the light shone on the pale outline of a scar like a spiderweb, woven from her left eye to her chin: a dead curse.

Her hands shone with scars as well, old burns that gnarled the skin. Elo noticed that she had freckles on her hands between the burns.

she drew the sword at her waist. The blade was dark: briddite again.

her horse: a mid-aged gelding

Without her cloak, she looked bigger somehow; her shoulders were broad and thick with muscle. But she stood a head and a half shorter than Elo; there was no way she could win in a fight.

drawing up her boot. Out of it she took a tired-looking foot-shaped piece of wood and clipped in the new leg. Then, she detached the cap from the leg with a clunk and slotted the cap onto her knee, binding it there with a thick leather strap around her thigh and two thin strips of cloth that went underneath and around the mechanics. The top of this cap had thinner leather straps that she threaded up her trousers and buckled to the leather girdle she wore above her hips. They fixed at an angle that allowed her to move her leg comfortably, but gave assurance that the cap wouldn’t fall off.

white scar on the woman’s face, or what the tattoos on her chest said. He had caught a glimpse of the spiral of ink that spread out above the top of the Talician woman’s cuirass, just below her throat, curled and loose. He had spent long enough in the army to know a swear word when he saw one, and this one said fuck you in Talic. / Kissen made her favourite gesture, curling her forefinger and thumb into a spiral like the one tattooed on her chest. Fuck you.

Kissen rubbed her chest over the sea-script as if it pained her. She also wore a leather pendant around her neck, which looked like some sort of vial.

She often wore her cuirass at night.

Her wild hair was pinned back beneath a band of plaits, and she was well dressed, not out of breath, her pack on her shoulder

She had made her leather armour so it would hold her breasts flat without restricting the movement of her arms too much

Yes, she looked every bit a woman of Talicia, with her wild hair and twists of braids, her broad shoulders, strong legs, and haughty nose.

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Inara

Inara looked at the clothes in her hands. She was still wearing the leggings and skirts she had left home in, with her wool jacket and buttoned waistcoat. The pearly buttons, her mother had said, had come from one of her grandmother’s robes.

pale blue and grey of House Craier.

she had come out in a padded jacket and travelling cloak, with a kerchief over her hair

Lessa’s hands were dark gold-brown, while Inara was fairer, Lessa’s hair black and straight while Inara’s was brown and curled. She looked like her father, Lessa had said, though had never explained in more detail.

She had abandoned her skirts and was wearing only her leggings, trousers, shirt, waistcoat, and waxwool cloak. She had strung the bow with Skedi’s help, him growing to weigh it down, and bound the shortsword at her waist as Elo had shown her.

She was wearing Telle’s cotton trousers, rolled up almost half their length again, over her leggings and under her skirts. Her quilted jacket was in Legs’s saddlebags, but she wore her waistcoat with the special buttons. She had considered taking it off, putting it somewhere safe, but found she couldn’t

Skedi

the harelike face and antlers of the squirrel-sized god that poked its nose out of Inara’s cuff, his feathered wings tucked tightly against his back. Skedi looked like a cross between a hare, a deer, and a bird. In the barest moment, a knife was in the veiga’s hand. Skedi shrank to the size of a mouse and fled back up Inara’s sleeve as the blade sank into the wood of the table.

A hare’s face, but its eyes were yellow as a bird’s

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Elo

dark, warm brown skin

He resisted the urge to touch his hair and make sure it was sitting well. It had grown out, its finely textured black coils needing more moisture and care than when he was a knight, his beard too; back then he had always been clean-shaven or wearing protective braids.

Elo went to his fireplace and reached beneath the mantel. There, his lion-headed pommel; he pulled down his sword.

For armour he wore only his bracers, with a leather doublet and jerkin over his shirt, but no more than that, and felt naked for it. Still, with the supplies for baking, and having shaved his beard and hair back to the skin, it felt like everything would be just fine.

a tall man with a longsword on his back.

Elo looked up and rubbed his hand over his shaved head with a half laugh

vambraces with buckles

his jacket and hood,

her eyes catching on something darker within the scar, on his shoulder. A tattoo, or an etching. No. God-script, like hers, but tangled, edged: wild-script, spreading out from a smaller, darker mark, about the size of a thumbnail. It looked like a fork in a road, the one that had been on the wooden board those knights outside Gefyr / She pushed him around and stared at his back. She hadn’t seen a curse like this before. It was simple, brutal, deeply ingrained. A curse like the one on her face was intended to disfigure, but when broken it had merely stained her skin white. Other curses were promises, like if such a fellow set foot on this land again, he’d be turned into a deer. That type of thing. This was a death curse: slow or fast, death would come in shadow on the road, in the shape of shadow. ‘It’s just going to keep growing,’ she said.

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King Arren

He wasn’t in his state dress, but wearing sheepskin leggings, a lined twill cloak, and a rough shirt of brown hemp he must have stolen or bought from a labourer.

as always the sun rising behind him and a stag’s head beneath his foot. He had a proud-looking face in this etching, and curling light brown hair

The scar started just beneath Arren’s left shoulder. A deep rivet in his flesh where bone and lung had given way. There, his skin was tightly knitted and dark with smoke-script, the language of a god. Elo’s breath quickened, his mouth dry. It had been a long time since he had seen where the scar widened, the skin opening around a dark space, an impossible space. A thing that should not be, but a thing that had saved his friend’s life: in the darkness, the twigs began. A little nest, rounded with moss, cradling a flame where the king’s heart had once been. And the flame was dwindling.

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Yatho

Yatho’s colours were kind enough, muted cornflower blue and lilac, and she had her black hair shaved short enough to show pretty leaf tattoos behind her ears.

Yatho’s arms were broad and muscled, filling out her shirt to its seams. It had been two months since Kissen had seen her adopted sister and was glad she was looking well, though her eyebrows were half-singed.

Yatho, pale, rumpled and grumpy, opened it, having clearly just shifted herself out of her bed and into her wheelchair, her mind still half in her filigree dreams.

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Telle

The woman smiled at her. She was pretty, with dark eyes and fine brows that were scored by three straight scars that cut across her face, one leaving a deep cleft in her upper lip. This must be Telle.

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[mistwraiths]

4 stars

I had an interesting time with Godkiller. Godkiller follows a godkiller, a twelve year old linked to a god of white lies, and an ex-knight who all need to go to a city destroyed by the gods and where many of the gods have been left to die.

The concept and the world itself were all very good and its rich in its lore and history. It's written well and there's a lot going on in this book: the aftermath of a war on gods and the forced religion shift the kingdom is trying to enforce and how it shows people are going to just worship in secret and keep the old ways, a rebellion cropping up because of it. And even how long-term and far reaching gods' plans can be.

I loved the characters in this book. Kissen, Elogast, Inara, and even Skedi. Watching these characters come together and grow close to each other was SO FUCKING GOOD. Like if this is the first book I hope they become a true proper found family in the latest books!!

Kissen gave me big Geralt of Rivia vibes, with her horse and her tools of trade, and her job. I love the disability representation and how capable she's shown to be. I also love that sign language is used so casually and freely used in this book! Watching Kissen see a little bit of herself in Inara but also remembering how awful it was to be an orphaned girl who lost her family to flames, and carry that past and anger and everything, and be this hard-edged but good person was so enjoyable. Kissen and Inara's growing connection was just so lovely.

Inara also gave me Ciri of Cintra vibes with her specialness. I love that she does feel young and I enjoyed her difficult relationship with Skedi. I do wish Skedi felt a little more different, more like a god I guess. Skedi taking over for reasons he thought best was a great because it shows how powerful gods can be, even little ones. I'm very interested in what Inara is and what will happen.

I loved Elogast, I love that he was struggling deeply with grief and trauma and shame, but he still continued on and tried to not only do what he believed to be what was right but tried to always be a good person.

The characters were just so good.

But the pacing of this story was something awful. For a book that's only about 300 pages, 304 I think, this felt way longer than it was. Maybe it was the constant journeying, but mainly the pace of this book dragged way too much. My attention kept wanting to wander. I kept getting a bit bored. Which is a shame because there is good in the slow parts.

I'm hoping the pace is better in the next books because I do want to see what happens next.

#hannah kaner #godkiller #steph's book review #steph reads #book review #2023 reads

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Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

New Review Godkiller by Hannah Kaner #fantasy #review @HarperVoyagerUK @TheEloquentPage

You are not welcome here, godkiller Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins. Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined…

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Luke Skedi the Jywalker

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