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Gideon la Nona by Tamsyn Muir

732 reviews

sabrina_marvil's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Wrong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Genocide, Gore, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Incest, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Cancer, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Colonisation, Self harm, Stalking, Trafficking, Torture, Medical content, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Blood, Body shaming, Vomit, War, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Mental illness

Not in space

sashammerk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent, Gore, Death, and Cannibalism

ienbdri's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Sloooow beginning, perfect middle part, kinda boring ending/ cliffhanger. I don't know what to do with this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Violence, Gore, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

molliford's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Terminal illness

marynograce827's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book was amazing and always had me drawn in for more. The pace is slow at some parts but then suddenly picks up to a fast pace and slows down again(rinse and repeat). The ending is quite sad in my opinion so if you enjoy a bittersweet end then this is for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Sexual content

schoha01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Body horror, Confinement, War, Violence, Grief, Child death, Death, Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Vomit, and Chronic illness

dizzymisslizzy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Body horror, Suicide, Cancer, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse and Cannibalism

applesodaperson's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

I am still on the hunt for my perfect adult fantasy series (so far Mistborn has been the best). And I would consider Beyonders the best YA fantasy series. Gideon the Ninth felt like it was supposed to be a YA series, because that was what level the plot and characters were, but then she wanted to add tons of gore and swearing, so she made it adult fantasy. But this just made the lack of world building so blatant, because that was the biggest problem with this book. It was an interesting blend of sci-fi and fantasy. The necromancer magic was the fantasy. But then the setting was in space, and the ninth planet is very metal and grungy, and they travel in space ships. But this mix is exactly why it needed to be explained so much more. I had a hard time practicing the ninth planet. And the seaside tower they are in for most of the book was better, but I still couldn't tell how much was sci-fi and how much was fantasy. Also, most of the side characters were not physically described enough. 
Anyways, I did appreciate the LGBTQ+ representation, especially since Gideon is such a female himbo. But I do not think the enemies to lovers was done all that great. The enemies part was awesome, and I loved that it was specifically childhood rivals/mutual bullies. I liked their mean nicknames for each other. But after sincerely hating each other their entire lives, they switched to lovers way too fast. There should have been more time to develop it and change this, which was not done because they spent most of the time apart from each other during the competition to become lichter. 
I also HATED

the villain reveal. It was like a 2 part reveal, and the first villain was underwhelming, because I barely remembered who she was. And the second villain was done in such a confusing way and felt like it had no foreshadowing. It was just messy and confusing and not very satisfying.

Overall, I am not sure I will finish the series, especially since the second book is like a 20+ week wait on Libby.
Listened to on Libby.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Gore

meg_thebrave's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Wow. It was a slow read for me, as Muir built this world, but this is an incredible read and I’m so glad I stuck it out to the end. I just read a modern sci-fi masterpiece. And I’m excited to see what happens next. Huge fan of the incredible narrator, Moira Quirk, as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Gore, and Murder

annie__bananie's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Cursing, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Child death