Title: Slow Gods
Author: Claire North
Pages: 448
Release: November 18, 2025

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From one novel to the next, Claire North effortlessly leaps across genres, crafting unique, engaging, and consistently satisfying stories. Slow Gods is no exception—an imaginative and fresh space opera fronted by a self-deprecating pilot with infinite lives, staring down a universe-spanning cataclysm.

I loved luxuriating in North’s language and her worlds: living ships, distinct gender systems, and the unknowable deep black of space that seems to lurk at the edge of our waking consciousness.

It’s less a tightly plotted, propulsively paced piece of fiction and more a high-stakes drama filled with expansive ideas and a singular protagonist. I enjoyed my time with it all the same, and I’ll gladly follow North wherever she jumps next. 

★★★¾

My thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.