4 1/2 of 5 starsYiene, whose mother abdicated her claim to the throne, is suddenly recalled to the capital by her grandfather and informed he's naming her heir. Yiene, knowing he already has two heirs designated - her cousins - is immediately suspicious. And well she should be. For from the moment she arrives she finds herself embroiled in palace intrigue.
Bad enough that the humans are plotting and jockeying for positions of power, but so are the bound gods the king and his family have control over. Yiene finds herself allying with one god, and incredibly sexually aroused by the most dangerous of them.
She's horrified at how everyone is treated, but mostly at how the gods are treated. The gods, defeated in a War with the God of Itempas, are bound forever and enslaved, to be used and abused by Yiene's family. But they've got a plan to end their slavery and she discovers she's at the center of that plan.
It's hard to review this book, as the plots are intricate and spoilers would result, so I'll stick with the basics rather than the plot.
Characterization is wonderful. Description is wonderful. The book gripped me from almost the first page and I found myself drawn in and swept up in Yeine's discovery of the horrors of the capital city Sky, the confusion Yiene feels as she discovers the city's secrets, the gods' secrets and the horrors her family have and still are perpetrating.
Can she survive this place? Does she even want to?
A wonderfully exciting and memorable book.
Read for The Women of Fantasy Challenge 
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