Tore through this in the span of three days, and this is a hell (pun unintended) of a debut novel. We get a woman who wakes up dead and buried in a ditch, and slowly find out that she is a scientist studying angels. It's slowly revealed that this is an alternate history where because of biblically accurate angels (aka body horror nightmares, hell yes), the US never expanded beyond the East Coast, and most of what is now the United States instead still belongs to indigenous Americans (specific divergence points - Louisiana Purchase fails, Lewis and Clark's expedition ends in failure), and the 13 colonies never grew beyond their original borders). Manifest Destiny is still being preached though, and our protagonist gets caught up in larger political machinations as she also embarks on a revenge quest. The world building here is really thoroughly done, to terrifying effect when describing the biblically accurate angels; size and nature. I also like all the literary references in the naming (Tennyson, Dolokov, Blake, etc). Comes out in October, and highly recommended when it does.

Angel Country was beautiful. Dark, atmospheric, and Frankensteinian--an unputdownable story of death and life and revenge.