Erk, I had a whole review typed up for this, and then my browser ate it. Let's see what I can do with a second chance.

I loved this book both for the voice of the narrator, and for the world building, which was complex enough that it is difficult to summarize the plot of the book without resorting to shorthands which would badly mislead. Let's see what I can do with the narrator, then.

Yeine is a girl, a woman by the laws of her people, who is competent and clever enough to know she is trapped, and utterly out of her depth. She is caught between two sides of a war between gods, between civilizations, and between generations, and the weapons are secrets she does not share, and a mad, enslaved god who may kill her. The stakes are her life, and the future of her people.

If you like stories about someone who brings a knife to a gun-fight, stories about the individual trying not to be buried beneath politics, or vividly rendered settings, I think you will like this book.