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Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

cpallennn's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

o0_lxvely's review against another edition

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4.0

4.55

g_oldpetals's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

itsame_amara's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

snzow's review against another edition

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3.0

In every book in the series so far the story has started relatively slowly and built to a climax that feels like the world is exploding around you. This one was no different, however I do feel like i was never as invested in this one as the previous two and the reward was not quite as great.

—SPOILERS BELOW—

This book was really a slog at times, I think after reading the first I was disappointed to begin the second and find that Gideon was gone. I persisted and grew to love Harrow. Of course Muir brought the story to a climax and Gideon came back and it was all awesome no complaints there, but I’ll admit that the first couple hundred pages were a bit frustrating. This book took it to an extreme. Depriving the reader of both characters that they’ve grown to love for 400 pages is cruel, and while i liked Nona too I never really found the story to be interesting enough to make up for the lack of time with the characters in the series I actually liked. Maybe the more realistic setting also killed it for me somewhat. The majority of the book I spent knowing roughly what would happen, and simply waiting for it to occur. When it did it was magnificent, Muir truly is a genius and the reveals are exciting and the writing is fantastic, but for the first time in this series it just didn’t feel completely worth it. It certainly wasn’t a bad book and in isolation i might rate it more highly, but it just felt disappointing coming off of the last two, especially having read them all in the span of a couple weeks.

vampirical_pirate's review against another edition

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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? Yes

4.0

violetbblack's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.0

salemander's review against another edition

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5.0

tamsyn muir the genius that you are! can’t wait to watch a two hour long deep dive explanation video of every single word in this book 

ddillon154's review against another edition

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4.0

An unexpected and exciting installment to the Locked Tomb. Admittedly, it took me a bit to come around to the intentionally warped perspective, but the effect is tremendous by the end of the narrative.

uselessluke's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging funny mysterious 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

3.0