Three Parts Dead

 Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone, 336 pages.

Tara Abernathy is thrown right into the deep end at the start of her probationary hiring with the necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao when she is immediately tasked to assist with the resurrection of a god. Not just any god, but Kos, one of the greatest of the survivors of the God Wars whose fires are a staple of the global economy. As if that wasn't a big enough tasks, the details of Kos' death keep not adding up, and it seems like there are people who are desperate for Tara not to learn more.

This was a really fantastic book! It was the kind of many threaded plot that actually managed to all come together for an exceptionally satisfying resolution, aided by some excellently cinematic pacing. The setting is also very interesting. It seems that we have skyscrapers and steam generators, but not guns or ink pens. The whole world comes together into something that feels exceptionally unique, and I felt like I kept getting surprising world building details up through the end of the book. There are four more books set in this same world (although I think they mostly follow different characters in different locations) and I'm really excited to read more of them.