This book:

Solid:
A slow luxurious soak in the conceived world and history
Grand scheme planning with intimate fallout
Diverse and believably intricate (food, garb, hair, class, ethnicity, sexuality, religion)
The characters feel gorgeously real and insufferably human

Wobbly:
Fed info in dialogue, found it mostly unobtrusive
Maintaining perfect pacing in a book this large is difficult
High no. of characters, lot of bit parts. Tho I found that +

A brick of a book of solidly epic proportions, that nonetheless lead me steadily through its pages and has sank its talons into my heart.

Now the agonising wait for the sequel begins.

Come for the worldbuilding; stay, in confusion, with a need for closure.

Ingredients:
7fl oz - Viscera
4oz - Women-only populated Organic Worldships
A pinch of War&Genocide
2 POVs (pref. Unreliable)
3fl oz - Amnesia
1Tbsp - Space, swirled through

Makes: 12hrs of Gory, glorious weirdness.

Fast paced tension at the perfect heat, sprinkled with just enough sweet to balance out all the sour.

Drink pairing:
Anything caffeinated.

DEVOURED! 😍