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Description of  Seraphina's Lament (The Bloodlands Book 1)

I am trying very hard not to say much about the plot, because I know I wouldn't want spoilers to derail a moment of my obsession, but know that those gods I mentioned earlier, and the notion of Becoming, is central to it all. So often we see the notion of Becoming equated with heroism, sacrifice, and redemption, but not here. In a world where religion has been outlawed, to Become means to be Broken, not raised up, and one's purpose is not to save the world but Break it. None of what I am saying, however, really captures Seraphina's Lament. I am tempted to say the story is far more than the sum of its parts, but the truth is that it's all about those parts. No one piece works on its own, or can be fully appreciated in isolation. It's in how Sarah Chorn constructs the story, and in how all those pieces fit, clash, overlap, and strain across the gaps between them that the experience of reading this falls. An extraordinary novel with an even more extraordinary voice.