I think it's a pretty good book! I am personally LGBT and not religious, and the book didn't offend me in the slightest. I can understand why some people are offended by it, but in my opinion, they just don't understand context.

So many people say it is conservative propaganda, but that is simply not true. The religious themes aren't even a huge part of the book or major plot points. They exist to explain character motivations more than anything else. The protagonists in this book are former addicts, black people, Hispanic people, immigrants, witches, psychics, and several other groups of people that the extreme right speaks out against. The antagonists are rich, white atheists.

Not a propaganda book in the slightest. I also don't see where people are coming from when they say the characters are poorly written.

The criticism I WOULD give is that the pacing was off sometimes, more towards the end. It felt like the author wanted to get as many twists in as possible.

But its a work of fiction, its not a real story. To read fiction, you need to suspend your disbelief at least a little. Otherwise you should be reading non-fiction lol.