An Instrument of Divine Becoming

Review from May 2026
Reading this felt like it was directly targeted at me—like I was exactly the person who was meant to read this. Like the only thing that it could have done to be more Rosie was like include a piece of luxury glassware or a duck. We've got blood, we've got knives, we've got some religious imagery, some anxiety around perfection and imperfection, and most importantly a great and pointless violence made meaningful through ritual. It is everything I like.

Perhaps more importantly than the fact it is everything I like bundled together, it is also well written. The language is evocative and the specifics of the ritual are both bloody and beautiful. If you are into that kind of thing, that ritualised bloody violence, then this one is definitely recommended.