holy shit. holy SHIT. everyone in this book is terrible and i adore them all. i don't know what i was expecting when i started this, but i was so invested by the end i was pacing my living room, anxious to see what was going to happen next. and that ENDING?! holy crap. the world building was effortless and i fully was in georgia with gem and this rag tag bunch of terrible, awful, messy, beautiful, queer gods. i bought all of this, hook, line & sinker and it was so refreshing to read a YA fantasy where the "bad" guys are quite literally everyone so it doesn't matter who you root for. gem is flawed and just- so absolutely lovely and stupid and angry and just and perfect and i will fight for them. they're also hilarious and i was not expecting to laugh SO much. everything about them just works and i want them being slutty and ridiculous and thriving. heedgmon really said they support queer rights *and* queer wrongs, and i can't get enough. i need the second book, like, yesterday. ...