RaveBookforumAccidental Gods is one of those carefully researched books of nonfiction guaranteed to make you feel smarter by the end ... Underneath its fascinating parade of ideas and historical snippets, the structure and sequencing are truly elegant ... This is not a book formed around a single, facile thesis, but instead a complex stitching of evidence. And while many of these chapters make for satisfying stand-alone essays...the sum is much greater than the parts. With all this sacred ground to cover, Subin keeps a fast clip, sometimes verging on breakneck speed, keeping most of her sources in the notes to foreground the driving narratives. It’s a grand, cinematic style at first, but we get more close-ups as the chapters build upon one another, and the result is powerful and persuasive.
