Title: Divinity 36
Series: Tinkered Starsong: Book One
Author: Gail Carriger
Publisher: Self-Published
Length: 333 Pages
Category: YA/Teen, Space Opera
Rating: 4 Stars
At a Glance: From the world-building to the characters and the way I became invested in them and their connection to one another, this book simply affirms my love of Gail Carriger’s brand of storytelling.
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: The aliens are coming for us and they want our voices.
Phex is a barista on a forgotten moon. Which is fine – he likes being ignored and he’s good at making drinks. Until one day an alien hears him singing and recruits him to become a god. Now Phex is thrust headfirst into the galaxy’s most cutthroat entertainment industry, where music is visible, the price of fame can kill, and the only friends he has want to be worshiped.
Welcome to the divinity. Where there is no difference between celebrity and religion, love and belief, acolyte and alien. Where the right kind of obsession can drive a person crazy or turn them divine.
Review: Gail Carriger’s imagination takes center stage in Divinity 36, her homage to space operas, the highs and pitfalls of ultimate competition, and the celebration of home, friendship, found family, and the stirrings of first love. Reaching celebrity status has its drawbacks, over and above the objectification, though. There are rabid fans known as the fixed, who are dangerous to an extreme degree.
This novel takes readers on a sleek and original journey into the workings of an alien society that makes gods of those who have the talent to become superstars. From the humblest of beginnings to his status as a stranger in a strange land, Phex didn’t dare to dream of becoming one of the worshiped. He only sang for the sake of singing, but being heard by the right alien at the right time delivers him not only into the spotlight but to the threshold of something wonderful. And potentially dangerous.
Divinity 36 is a story about creative passion. Phex evolves from wanting and needing no one to wanting and needing a connection with the five members of his pantheon, to compete for godhood, and, perhaps most intrinsic of all, to protect others. Meeting the god Missit, inarguably the most worshiped of the gods, flirts with a passion of another sort. There is a connection between him and Phex that goes beyond song, but being in competing pantheons is sure to cause conflict as the trilogy continues.
From the world-building to the characters and the way I became invested in them and their connection to one another, this book simply affirms my love of Gail Carriger’s brand of storytelling.
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