3.5* This was a nice continuation of people, places, and mythos from the previous book. I enjoyed that it went in a rather different direction with some deeply different stories by following Mulaghesh.

While I liked the story I wasn't always so keen on Mulaghesh being so erratically flippant or panicked. I expected some but it seemed to vibrate more than necessary. In the end the characters played out right. Some as most often, sadly so, but their meeting, learning, and then leaving was well rounded.

If this is the second in a three part series I am very interested in where they go from here. Robert is a careful and very capable story teller that is not afraid to show us different angles of the human psyche and the potentials of divinities who can be both affected and effected by their rules and influences of their followers.

I hope to revisit again.