Reviews with content warning for Death - Gideon la Nona

Totally obsessed with The Locked Tomb series.
GtN est le plus classique des 3 romans sortis au moment où j’écris ces lignes. On suit Gideon (19 ans) qui passe de rebelle qui cherche à fuir sa planète où elle est maltraitée à « garde du corps » de sa nécromante qu’elle déteste. Difficile de faire un résumé sans trop en dire d’une part mais de donner envie d’y jeter un coup d’œil d’autre part !
Une première écoute enthousiasmante : c’est drôle, c’est triste, ça prend aux tripes, on s’attache aux personnages et l’épée de Damoclès est omniprésente : personne n’est protégé.
Les personnages sont attachants ou détestables, aucun je pense ne m’a laissée de marbre.
Puis j’ai relu et réécouté après lecture de la suite et la saveur du roman change. On cherche obsessivement à comprendre, à faire des liens, on se rend compte que pratiquement tout est « foreshadowing », qu’aucun mot n’est innocent.
On met juste un pied dans un Univet extrêmement complexe et si on cligne des yeux, on en rate une partie. Je n’avais encore jamais été conquise par une série à tel point.

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adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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hex_meghead's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The first half of the book was a very difficult read for me, it was incredibly slow and I didn't like how the worldbuilding was presented. There were also too many character names to remember (it didn't help that all of them had several different names/titles that were used interchangeably) and though the narrator did a fantastic job differentiating their voices, I only started to remember and recognize side characters

once half of the cast was dead

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Despite my numerous gripes with the book, I have to give it four stars simply due to the fact that it's persistently been on my mind ever since I finished reading it. The last few hours of the book were fantastic and Harrow has to be one of my favorite characters ever. Even if I felt that the romance was kind of rushed and Gideon and Harrow went from

"Hey, I actually kind of like you" to "You are the only thing I care about in this world and I would literally die for you"

WAY too fast for me to find it believable, I was rooting for them.
I loved Gideon and Harrow as characters and how they got to be unapologetic badass bitches who seriously hated each other. A lot of stories advertise themselves as enemies to lovers but this is the first book I read where I felt that was actually accurate. I wish there were more female characters like this!

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