Divine Service

This felt like a few hundred pages and took me a while to get through because it's pretty dense.
The reader is thrown into a world that's basically Lord of the Rings but maybe a few hundred years into the future so society is closer to Tudor England - but there's still orcs and elves and magic. There's also gods or demi-gods that are born men but somehow level-up when people start worshipping them.
I can't decide if I'm impressed all of this was crammed into a novella or if I'm just confused as to what this world actually entails and what happened in the plot. I did enjoy the characters and my curiosity is piqued enough to read more from the author though, so that's probably a win.