I'm afraid that I didn't like this one much when it was on BCS, and I didn't like it much here. There are too many holes - not unanswered questions, actual holes - for me to really enjoy it. For example: Halla? Worst thief ever. Who - who really hopes to be successful - just wanders around hitting random houses and places of worship without making any particular plans? Or paying attention to how panic and wariness rises and falls based on publicized crimes? I mean, it's actively stupid to rob a rich person's house in the morning and then try to rob the temple in the afternoon, because when the temple hears about the house-breaking, they will increase their security. And the temple? They like to store all their gold and jewels in this random room, unlocked, beyond unlocked external doors? How do they have any gold stuff left?
I know Halla's career wasn't the focus of the story, but I found it extremely distracting. What was most frustrating is that it would have been so easy to reimagine the same story in such a way that it would have made more sense.
Similarly, perhaps, I found Halla to be extremely inconsistent. On the one hand, she seems mostly annoyed that she was not allowed to remain in a position of privilege and power. And yet, her dialogue and internal narration occasionally includes random references to "changing things" and justice. This wouldn't be a problem - internal tension is great - but it the contradiction was never treated as a source of tension. It was just kind of there. I don't know what was going through the author's head, but it almost seemed to me as though she was trying to make an ultimately selfish character more sympathetic, but without addressing the character's essential self-centeredness.
Finally, the whole god-inspired-bloodlust thing just didn't evoke anything for me. Perhaps if the characterization had been stronger or the opening more consistent, I would have felt differently.
So in the end the story didn't really do it for me. It seemed inconsistent and a little sloppy.
The reading was great, though!