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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

58 reviews

abbyschalupa's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Medical content

entityj's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Grief, Medical content, Body horror, Gore, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Blood

Minor: Alcohol and Sexual content

isleoflinds's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Death, Vomit, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm, Alcohol, Animal death, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment and Pregnancy

cattails's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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: Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Gore, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Gaslighting, Murder, War, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, and Infertility

pbarrett5275'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

At first I wasn't sure if I'd like where the plot was headed after I finished the Gideon of Ninth. I soon released it didn't matter what I thought because I had no idea what was going on. The beginning of Harrow the Ninth can be tough, but ultimately this sequel lives up to it's predecessor and possible even more. Despite being quite perplexed, I found myself enjoying the new storyline as much as I was confused by it. This book is a bit darker, but still had plenty of good laughs, mystery, and soup. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters added to the mythology as well as those with newly expanded roles from the returning cast. Unlike Gideon, Harrow the Ninth actually takes place in space, and is filled with plenty of new adventure, expanded world building, and easily the best fight scene in the series to date.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Cancer, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, War, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

avsmka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Child death

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

theirgracegrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Death of parent, Confinement, and Alcohol

Minor: War, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Child death, and Alcoholism

bookspaperink's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual content, and Vomit

kaylamoran's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This book was so enormously disappointing to me.  I adored Gideon the Ninth, and this felt like an entirely different series.  I couldn't handle the pacing, I was so bored.  I hated the second person, even though in the end it all made sense.  And Harrow is just so much more boring than Gideon.  None of what made the first book special to me was present in book two.

And honestly, I just spent the entire book confused.  I still frankly have no idea what happened in this book and I couldn't summarize it if I tried.

I'll still continue the series.  I loved book one enough for that.  But this is without a doubt my biggest disappointment so far of 2021.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcohol, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, and Gun violence

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Minor: War and Sexual content