Depicting Mormonism in fiction is hard because there’s the obvious bits (which this series mostly gets right) but also so many details that turn a depiction into a general portrayal of generic conservative Christianity with some superficially Mormon elements. This gets a lot right but enough wrong as to bug me.

I have also never been a fan of fantasy stories that riff on Christian cosmology, and while I’m sure that some of that comes to still-ingrained secular/profane distinctions, I honestly don’t get what the cosmology here is and, therefore, what the stakes of the story are. I enjoyed reading this, but I don’t think it was that good.

• Ryan Stegman
• Jason Howard
• Mormonism
• The Missionary