Gods War

Published Nov. 8, 2011 by Night Shade Books.

ISBN:
978-1-59780-214-7
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4 stars

I immensely enjoyed this super-gritty, kinda gruesome SF novel by Kameron Hurley. Comes with a big caveat, you need to be able to dig her distinctive style of providing zero exposition, throwing complicated worldbuilding elements at you, and tying them all together to a fascinating read.

Our protagonist is Nyxnissa, a bounty hunter who drinks, fucks, kills, takes drugs, all the bad stuff. She used to be a bel dame in Nasheen, an elusive female faction who bring in boys who run away from the war front. Nasheen is matriarchal, and a long holy war is fought against the neighboring country of Chenja. The religion is islam-based, basically the colonists brought islamism with them, but interpret it very differently on both sides of the fence.

Nyx receives a bounty note to bring in an alien visitor to this world, but a rival bounty hunter plus the bel dames are also …