this book and series are truly fantastic. deals with metaphysics, philosophy, and complex uncomfortable social entanglements where most parties involved have a questionably functional relationship to the idea of disrupting the status quo. sehhinah as a series and a setting seems fascinated by asking 'and then what?' to concepts that would be the end point of many other series. god negotiates with their creations about their personal preferences wrt existence and life after death and creates a new agreement - and then what? what is it like to live in a world where anyone can talk to god and god has demonstrated interest in life's well-being? what's it like to be an "ordinary person" in a world where anyone (with effort and practice) can cause an expression of their soul to physically exist? what kind of conflicts arise in this manner of utopia, and what kinds of viewpoints? the characters are all specific and strong, with a range of personalities and problems that feel both rooted in their fantastical setting and deeply relatable. plus it's just interesting, and genuinely unexpected in a lot of ways. this book sucked me in first and foremost because i wanted to see what happened next and hear what else the characters had to say.
do not go into this book with the idea that either straightforward christianity or typical 'christian-inspired' concepts and tropes will be a useful framework for what's going on.
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