Not at all my usual tastes. No spaceships, dismemberment, or monsters. I believe this is what you’d call a slice of life. And, it’s very good. I haven’t read any of her other works, but if it’s as solid as this one, I just might. It’s a setting that I don’t know anything about, so I have no idea how accurate it is, but the writing was very confident.

Peony and Ezra are the best, though Naomi is a good character as well, she’s just hard to like. Kueilan is pretty great, too, even with the ‘brain of a kitten.’ The only boring character is David, but he’s inoffensive, just kinda dull. On the other hand, one can definitely empathize with his crisis of faith, and his ultimate conclusion makes sense.

Anyway, good book.