I read this as the first of the three books in the Godspeaker Trilogy omnibus. But I was dissatisfied enough with it that I won't be reading the other two books in the omnibus -- and will post my review here, instead.

This book is problematic, because I had a hard time engaging with the principle character. Hekat, at first the scrappy heroine, morphs into the titular character: a rabid religious fanatic of little dimension, but with plenty of reasons for the reader to hate both her and her animal- and human-sacrificing ultra-violent empire. Her foil is her godspeaker and her son, but they are immaterial to her dreams of world domination.

I don't always want a "happy-happy, joy-joy" ending -- and maybe this all plays out in the 2nd and 3rd books to a more satisfying conclusion. But with this book, there is no pay-off and no comeuppance for her bloody fanaticism..., and the entire book left a bad taste in my mouth.