# Loading States

To read the state of a single subject without executing a command, for example to answer a query about it, call the `Load` function with a context, the store, the state, and the subject:

```go
book, err := architecturekit.Load(context.TODO(), store, bookState, "/books/42")
if err != nil {
  // ...
}
```

`Load` reads the events exactly the way `Execute` does before it decides, including `FromLatest` and the state cache. For a query across many subjects, use a view instead (see [Defining Views](/docs/architecturekit/defining-views)).