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Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

22 reviews

sofipitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

"You can't take loved back" 😭😭😭😭

Reread review: I can't believe some ppl don't like this one bc it barely has Harrow and Gideon but if anything it just shows that Muir is a talented writer, she can write a compelling story without hanging on you being attached to the characters already. Same with the genre, Nona is still space opera but more domestic and coming of age story wrapped in. Or at least Nona is trying SO hard to have a coming of age story and not the horror space opera. I also loved the John sections, I'm obsessed with what a mundane antagonist God is. He doesn't mean to be an antagonist he just makes a lot of shit and selfish decisions, he is so real. Also the way the world ends is a bit terrifying in it's realism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

jakobvongunten's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Body horror

Minor: Animal death

cozyscones'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

multiplyoctopi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Eating disorder and Animal death

jjreads331's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

I can see why Nona caused Tamsyn Muir to write a complete additional book in a series. She really is that special. The blurb on the cover is completely accurate - I do love Nona, and I know she loves me, too.

Proper review to come when I have more time to think about this beyond expressing my opinions in memes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Animal death, Death, Grief, Blood, Child death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: War, Abandonment, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.75

Resisting the urge to relisten to this audiobook right the fuck now.

Tamsyn Muir, if I ever meet you, I'm challenging  you to a fight to the death for subjecting me to The Locked Tomb series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and War

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Death

geilie's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Gun violence, and Genocide

Moderate: Animal death, War, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, and Kidnapping

symbio's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious fast-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

5.0

This book is a sigh of relief after the tension of the previous book, but it is very much the calm before the storm, and we see only the very beginning of that storm in the epilogue. Nona as a narrator is a breath of fresh air; she’s clueless and clumsy, but so full of love it radiates to everyone who touches her. 

Dramatic irony is central to the book. There are no slap to the face reveals like in previous books; instead, each reveal is a gentle confirmation of suspicions the astute reader could garner from previous installments. Muir again proves that something being predictable is rewarding when done well. 

Unlike its predecessor, Nona gets more confusing toward the end of the book as the conclusion reveals itself. Go ahead and strap in for faces new and familiar and souls familiar and foreign. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Cannibalism, Vomit, and Medical content

btrz7's review

dark medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Blood, and Gore

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Self harm, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Deadnaming, Excrement, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Xenophobia