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Anyone else read House of Shattered Wings? I picked a book in a hurry at the library last week and found it really unusual as a fantasy book. I enjoyed the shit out of it.
>set in post-apocalyptic 1920sish Paris following a very different Great War full of gothic ruins and still-active fallout
>in this setting, angels semi-regularly fall from heaven and either get claimed by one of the warring houses of angels and their servants, or get physically harvested for their magical properties by anyone who can get their hands on them, because angel body parts confer wizardly powers
>they don't have any memory or way back into heaven or anything; so even fallen angels like Morningstar himself are just people trying to survive in the world, becoming powerful influence peddlers and essentially mob bosses in an inhospitable lawless land, not trying to do good or evil or concern themselves with religious things
>people from across the world got pulled into the war, so one of the characters is a stranded foreigner with very different powers from angel magic because he's from a totally different court of mythological beings
>No religious "point" or "moral" to the whole thing despite the setting, unless "everyone is an asshole" counts
I bet a religious scholar could have an aneurysm reading this but I'm not one. Any takers?

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