Series ✦ Penny’s Take
Blood of Gods and Girls
Katja Kaine · 2026
70/100
👍 Worth It
A major six-figure Penguin Random House acquisition from a Bath Novel Award-winner is a meaningful signal, and the Singapore-inspired world-building sounds genuinely fresh in a crowded feminist romantasy field. It's too new for confident scoring — no critical consensus has formed — but the credentials and market backing make it worth keeping an eye on.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: human sacrifice as central plot element may concern faith-based readers. We still scored it 70; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing72
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy68
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit72
👁 Human-eye gut-check68
Penny’s verdict70
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