God's War

It's difficult to rate a book when you loved the first half but ended up sick of it by the end - the final impression is what lingers though. I was ready to love this with its very first sentence; she has created a grim and fascinating world and an engaging collection of misfits. But then she proceeds to torture them, and then torture them again, and then torture them some more. There was just too much misery for me and not enough nuance. I had to close off my empathy in self-defense, and after that all was lost.