Akiva Reads

by Ann Leckie

I can't believe I didn't review this! I was apprehensive because I've lowkey hated most of the fantasy I've tried to read in the last few years, but Leckie takes a much more sci fi approach to fantasy, which fucking rules: What if there are gods and everything they say comes true?

It's a lot more than that premise---it's also a story about human foibles and (in a weird way) a "coming of age" story about the main character, who is a god. BUT ALSO there is beautiful wonderful mind-expanding worldbuilding, like a gorgeous literary account of being a god before life on earth and living through that, and gods learning language, and god economies and politics, and offhand mentions of how gender variant and neuroatypical people are commonly priests.

We named our kombucha mother The Myriad, which might be the gayest sentence ever written.