The Saint of Bright Doors

Well, shucks. So many promising angles to the premise, the world-building, the messaging, but - I hesitate to call it messy - it just feels like it kept cutting itself off. One plot line would be interrupted by another, in theory a new development, the same characters, but it often felt like the characters were privy to more than the reader was, and not in a way that was purposefully mysterious, and later revealed. I mostly appreciated the push to build a narrative at the expense of diving deeper into the mythos of this world, but it did leave me with questions. I guess my subjective complaint is that the aspects to the story that most interested me were not built out in a way I enjoyed, and more was introduced than could be done justice to. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I think it's clear that there are intentions towards social commentary: pogroms, camps, caste system, ‘race science', cultish religious organizations, but it all tends to blur together when most of the book is one form of hell or another.  Fetter is distanced from the world due to his upbringing and as the majority of the story is from his POV, I also had trouble engaging as well.