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reviewed Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (The Craft Sequence, #1)

Max Gladstone: Three Parts Dead (2012, Tor) 4 stars

"A god has died, and it's up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic …

Review of 'Three Parts Dead' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Absolutely lovely- fresh interesting world, evocative and cunning magical system, complex and likable protagonists! Don't wait, read!

Mildly Spoilery:

This is a human-against-nature story, but instead of using the tools of the Industrial Revolution, human kind are using the tools of the Thaumaturgical Revolution.

The traditional order of Faith>Worship>Miracle has been smashed by the Gods War, and where the gaps are inconvenient, the Craftspersons have to step in and re-create a natural system with an artificial one.

Like Industrialists who build laborers villages around their giant factories in an artificial shadow of the organic village/marketplace relationship, the Craft firms weld new gods from the shattered bodies of the old. These new deities are modern, efficient, and above all compliant components of the new society.

In this world, miracles are no longer prayed for. They are bought and paid for.