Love, Gods and Sinners Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Q: Is there a sequel to Love, Gods and Sinners?

Yes. Truth, Lies and Demons is the second and final book of the duology, listed for June 2027. As of September 2026 it has no ratings yet.

Updated on October 9, 2026

Verdict: A superhero-versus-supervillain sapphic urban fantasy with banter that genuinely sparks and a setting nobody else is writing, undercut by an enemies phase that ends too early and a world that stays sketched in.

Best for: Readers who want a fast, funny, low-heat enemies-to-lovers romp with secret identities and rooftop fights, and who will forgive thin worldbuilding and loose politics for chemistry and momentum.

Heat level: ★★☆☆☆ (2/5 — no romance.io steam band; 14+ listing, mild, one late on-page scene)

Rating: ★★★★☆ (3.5/5 — a 3.81 Goodreads average with recurring complaints about pacing and worldbuilding)

Tropes: Enemies-to-lovers, secret identities, rivals-to-lovers, roommates, dual POV, found family, forbidden love, opposing clans, descendants of gods, coming out.

Love, Gods and Sinners by Camille Chong is the first book of a duology and a traditionally published debut from Pan Macmillan’s First Ink imprint — a sapphic urban fantasy set in an alternate, near-future Singapore where the descendants of gods run clans, and where Harper, heir-in-waiting to the Fox clan, is ordered to kill the Moon Goddess’s descendant who happens to be her roommate.

It came out on 11 June 2026 and sits at a 3.81 average across 153 Goodreads ratings, with StoryGraph almost exactly in step at 3.8. That sample hides a clear split: readers who came for a fun enemies-to-lovers romp rate it four and five stars, while readers who came for the fantasy rate it two and three. Both halves of that split are worth understanding before you start.

What Is Love, Gods and Sinners About?

Love, Gods and Sinners is urban fantasy in the superhero sense — secret identities, masked night work, fights across rooftops and bus routes — laid over a Singapore of tech companies and magical clans descended from Asian deities. The author has named Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir as the seed, and it shows: this is a dual-identity romance first and a fantasy second. Amazon files it under teen romance fantasy with a 14+ reading age, while the publisher’s own copy pitches it as a New Adult debut.

By day, Harper and Tia are interns at the same tech company and share a flat, bickering in both places. By night Tia is Lune, a descendant of the Moon Goddess working as a government-sanctioned Sentinel, and Harper is Raven, a Fox — the clan everyone stereotypes as troublemakers — being groomed to lead it. Harper knows exactly who her roommate is; Tia has no idea who Raven is. The book alternates between the two of them, so you get both the dramatic irony of Harper’s double life and Tia’s slow realisation that the enemy she fights and the girl she argues with might be closer than she thinks.

What Makes This Sapphic Urban Fantasy Romance Work

The banter: The most-praised element by a distance. About a dozen of the forty Goodreads reviews I sampled mention it by name, and “witty” and “hilarious” are the recurring words.
The action: Readers describe the fight scenes as cinematic and superhero-flavoured — one reviewer’s shorthand involves a literal thrown bus — and “adventurous” is StoryGraph’s top mood at 70%.
The setting: A sapphic fantasy romance set in Singapore, drawing on Chang’e, fox spirits and naga, is genuinely rare, and several reviewers name that as the reason they picked it up.
The found family: Niko and Kiran in particular give the book its warmth; at least one reader says it moved them to tears.
Representation on the page: Reviewers single out a sensitively handled coming-out scene and the fact that the book actually uses the words lesbian and bisexual.

Book Synopsis

Harper Leong has two jobs and hates her roommate in both of them. In the office and at home, Tia Njauw is the fellow intern and flatmate she cannot stop arguing with. At night, Tia is Lune, the silver-lit Sentinel who patrols the city for the government, and Harper is Raven, the masked Fox who has spent years making Lune’s life difficult. Only one of them knows the two lives overlap, and it is not Tia.

The Fox clan is under pressure. Foxes are distrusted, blamed, and left to fend for themselves, and moonstones — mined from the moon, used as fuel and, in powdered form, as medicine for weaker descendants — are both what the city runs on and what the clan needs to survive. Harper made a promise to her parents that she would lead the Foxes. Now the price of that leadership has been named: kill Lune. At the same time, a heist is building that Tia has sworn to stop, a tech firm called Ferrix is doing something with moonstones that nobody will explain, and the naga clan’s climate protests are turning violent.

Harper has every reason to follow the order and one reason not to, and that reason sleeps across the hall. The closer the two girls get as Harper and Tia, the harder it becomes for Raven and Lune to keep fighting — and the more dangerous Tia’s ignorance becomes.

My Review

The pitch is excellent, and Chong delivers the part of it readers came for. Two girls who bicker at the office by day and trade punches over the skyline by night is a premise that sells itself, and the dual identities give it a constant hum of dramatic irony. The banter between Harper and Tia is the real thing — quick, petty, funny — and it survives the switch from roommates to masked rivals.

The second genuine strength is energy. StoryGraph readers call it fast-paced by a clear majority, “funny” is chosen by 62% of them, and the fight scenes have a cartoon-to-film quality that suits a book built on a superhero template. Harper is the stronger lead: her grief, her promise to her parents and her standing as a Fox give her something to lose.

Where it struggles is structure, and this is not one reader’s gripe. The most repeated criticism in the low-star reviews is that the enemies phase ends too early — readers put the turn at roughly the 30% mark, with only a handful of Raven-and-Lune encounters before the tension softens into will-they-won’t-they kissing. One two-star reviewer puts it bluntly: “they got together too fast.” Close behind is worldbuilding. Readers ask how many Sentinels there are, what the government’s magic department does, and why a Singapore setting shows so little of the city; a smaller group finds the fights hard to follow and the plain prose at odds with the older themes. StoryGraph’s 7% did-not-finish rate is below the 9% I flagged on Her Spell That Binds Me, but it is high for a book of around 350 pages.

One expectation to reset: the marketing says New Adult and “a little spicy,” and the Kindle subtitle says “sizzling.” The book is listed for 14 and up, Goodreads readers shelve it as young adult, and the heat amounts to charged tension plus one on-page scene near the end. If spice is what drew you, calibrate; if you were worried it would be too much for a younger reader, it mostly is not — but do know that scene is there.

My honest note: A great hook and genuinely fun chemistry, carried by pace rather than depth. If you want a world you can walk around in, this will frustrate you. If you want two girls in masks flirting through a fistfight, it delivers.

Element	In Love, Gods and Sinners
Central relationship	Harper Leong & Tia Njauw — Fox heir and government Sentinel, roommates and rivals-to-lovers
Core tropes	Enemies-to-lovers, secret identities, roommates, dual POV, found family, opposing clans
Setting	An alternate near-future Singapore of tech firms, moonstones and clans descended from gods
Heat level	2/5 — mild; tension plus one late on-page scene
Series	Love, Gods & Sinners duology book 1 — main plot wraps; Truth, Lies and Demons follows in 2027
Content notes	Fantasy violence and injury, death of a parent and grief, a car accident, homophobia and biphobia, anti-Fox prejudice, panic attacks, one sexual scene

How Spicy Is Love, Gods and Sinners?

A 2/5. romance.io has an entry for the book but has not assigned it a steam band — it has only two ratings there and is tagged young adult — so there is no romance.io label to quote. The number comes from the listing and from readers instead: Amazon gives a 14+ reading age, one five-star reviewer describes “a small bit of spice,” another talks about steamy tension rather than steamy scenes, and the romance is driven by banter and near-misses far more than by sex.

The one thing worth flagging in advance is a sex scene near the end, which at least one three-star reviewer thought did not fit a book pitched at young adults. StoryGraph’s user-submitted warnings do not list sexual content at all, and no reviewer I found describes anything more explicit than that scene. For the same restrained band, Girls of Paper and Fire and Of Fire and Stars both sit at 2/5 on this site.

Who Should Read This Book?

You’ll likely love it if: you want enemies-to-lovers built on banter rather than cruelty, you love secret-identity superhero stories, you want a sapphic fantasy set somewhere other than a vaguely European kingdom, and you prefer low heat with a lot of charged flirting.

You may want to skip it if: you read enemies-to-lovers for a long, hostile slow burn, you need worldbuilding and politics that hold up under questions, you want explicit spice, or you are a reader who notices when a setting is named more than it is shown.

In short: a fun, fast, flirty debut that trades depth for momentum and mostly gets away with it.

What Readers Are Actually Saying (October 2026)

This is a quiet book, and it is worth saying so plainly. There is no viral BookTok moment that I could find despite the packaging leaning hard on a K-Pop Demon Hunters comparison, no trade review from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly or Booklist — the Amazon Editorial Reviews block is made up entirely of blurbs from other authors — and Reddit could not be checked from here, so I cannot tell you whether it has a footprint there. What it does have is a traditional-publishing launch: a NetGalley ARC campaign (roughly a quarter of the Goodreads reviews I read are ARC reviews), an ELLE Singapore profile of the author on publication day, and an audiobook narrated by Kaja Chan and Jacqui Bardelang, running 12 hours and 8 minutes. Readers are finding it through the debut push and the novelty of the setting, not word of mouth.

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Why readers love it (according to the discourse): The banter, first and most often — it is the thing reviewers quote back and the word that recurs. Then the action, which readers compare to superhero films, and the energy: “fun” and “fast” appear constantly, and 55% of StoryGraph readers chose fast-paced. The found family draws real affection, especially Niko and Kiran, and the coming-out scene is singled out as handled with care. StoryGraph readers are generous on character: 80% call the development strong and 96% call the cast diverse. And a minority of reviewers specifically praise the Singaporean cultural and linguistic detail — which is notable, because it is the exact opposite of one of the loudest complaints.

What readers argue about and complain about: The rushed enemies phase, above everything. Several low-star reviewers say the hostility resolves around a third of the way in, after only a few confrontations, and that a character who has spent years fighting her rival and has promised her dying parents she will lead her clan reconsiders everything after about a week of dating. Worldbuilding is the second theme — apparently only three Sentinels for an entire city, a government magic department mentioned in passing, a deity lineage never explained, and a Singapore that one Singaporean reviewer found barely present, with no Singlish at all. Third: the politics. A queer Singaporean reviewer objects that the naga climate protesters are written as violent without nuance and that the Sentinels keep serving a government revealed to be complicit in something far worse; another reader raises the same plot hole independently. Beyond that: thin side characters, hard-to-track fights, and plain, young-sounding prose. Opinions divide on that last one — some readers call it simply written in the good sense, and one says outright that this is exactly the fanfic-style book they wanted.

The series question everyone should ask first: book one does not strand you. A reviewer who disliked it still says it wraps things up and reads like a standalone, despite an odd final scene that clearly sets up more. It is book one of a duology, though, and at least one reader did not realise that from the marketing. The sequel, Truth, Lies and Demons, is listed for pre-order in audio with a June 2027 date. If you want the complete story, you are waiting roughly nine months; if you only want this romance, book one is a reasonable place to stop.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Love, Gods and Sinners young adult or adult?

It sits in between. Amazon lists it for ages 14 and up and Goodreads readers shelve it as young adult, while the publisher’s copy calls it a New Adult debut. The leads are tech-company interns, and there is one on-page sex scene near the end.

How spicy is Love, Gods and Sinners?

A 2/5. romance.io has not assigned it a steam band, and readers describe a small amount of spice built mostly on tension and banter. There is one on-page scene late in the book.

Does Love, Gods and Sinners end on a cliffhanger?

Not a hard one. Reviewers say the main plot wraps up and the book reads almost like a standalone, but the final scene sets up the second book of the duology.

Is there a sequel to Love, Gods and Sinners?

Yes. Truth, Lies and Demons is the second and final book of the duology, listed for June 2027. As of September 2026 it has no ratings yet.

Is there an audiobook?

Yes — narrated by Kaja Chan and Jacqui Bardelang, running 12 hours and 8 minutes. It is available from Audible and Libro.fm.

If You Loved Love, Gods and Sinners, Read These Next

If the Asian-inspired sapphic fantasy is the draw, Girls of Paper and Fire takes a similar mythic register at the same restrained heat and in a far darker key. If it was the snark and the found family, The Scapegracers gives you a funnier, messier queer friend group with magic attached. And if you want the rivals engine with the heat turned all the way up, Her Spell That Binds Me runs a magical rivalry at 5/5.

For more in this register, browse our complete enemies-to-lovers reading list or the full Book Reviews collection.

The Bottom Line

Love, Gods and Sinners is a debut whose hook is bigger than its world. The banter is genuinely funny, the secret-identity setup gives every scene a charge, and a sapphic superhero story set in Singapore is something the genre has not had before. It is also thin where fantasy readers look hardest, quick to resolve the hostility its trope depends on, and loose with the politics it raises. Whether that trade is worth it depends on what you came for — but the reader who wants a fast, flirty, low-heat enemies-to-lovers romp with masks and rooftop fights will get exactly that. Check Love, Gods and Sinners on Amazon →

The Eikna Overall Ranking

On the Eikna scale, Love, Gods and Sinners ranks as a high-concept sapphic urban fantasy debut — funny and full of momentum, held back by a sketched-in world and a rushed enemies phase, and best approached for the banter and the secret identities rather than the fantasy.