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Broken down to its constituent parts, I love everything that makes up Genesis: the religious themes and imagery the jagged-edged nonbinary MC who is utterly convinced she’s not the Messiah mysterious gemstones with all kinds of otherworldly properties. I feel like I should have enjoyed this much more than I did. ~what’s the difference between hallucinations and visions? This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The voice that guides Misery grows bolder by the day, and it seems the madness is catching… Still waiting to be convinced of their own divinity and secretly training with a crew of outlaws and outcasts, Misery grows close to a rebel royal, Lady Alodia Lightning, who may know something of saints and prophecy herself.

Knowing they aren’t a saint but praying they aren’t voidmad, Misery keeps quiet about their power for years, while dreaming and scheming up ways off their Forge-forsaken planet.īut when the voice of an angel, or a very convincing delusion, leads Misery to the center of the Empire, they find themself trapped between two powerful and dangerous factions, each hoping to use Misery to win a terrible war. Unfortunately, these saint-like abilities also manifest in those succumbing to voidmadness, like that which killed Misery’s mother. This is the story of Misery Nomaki (she/they) – a nobody from a nowhere mining planet who possesses the rare stone-working powers of a saint. Representation: Queernorm world, bi/pansexual nonbinary MC, NB/F, NB/M, secondary nonbinary characters, minor trans charactersĪn immersive, electrifying space-fantasy from Neon Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven, full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs.