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Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

62 reviews

hidemybook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing and Xenophobia

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

a lot of messy shit happened in this book but the thing that threw me off the most is, with no doubt, ianthe and gideon being friends. still can’t fathom it.

i love this series so much and this book was such an incredible addiction; i loved the new setting, the newly introduced characters, and how the story is progressing. now i will not know peace until i own a copy of book 4.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, and Abandonment

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

2.0

Why is this a thing? Did it need to happen? I struggled to read Nona where I did not struggle with Gideon or Harrow. Hopefully Alecto is better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Violence, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

fiveredhens's review against another edition

challenging funny sad medium-paced

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

4.75

spongebob pensive at the diner dot gif

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, Colonisation, and War

vogelobre's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

I really liked this book!! I read it back to back with Harrow the Ninth, and while I really enjoyed how tense and twisty and confusing that one was, it was nice to read something a bit more lighthearted and joyful. I fell completely in love with Nona and her little family, and it was very interesting to read about the backstory of the Nine Houses. Despite the lighter tone, this book has a lot of dark themes and emotional moments. It works very well as a continuation and exploration of the series' themes, and I can't wait to reread all three books before the fourth one comes out!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, and Alcohol

theirgracegrace's review against another edition

funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir's third book of four in the Locked Tomb series, is a sudden but welcome shift from the previous two books. Nona is just a nineteen year old relearning how to interact with society with the help of her three parental figures. But it is later discovered that

the three parents are necromancers from the Nine Houses and that Nona herself is piloting the body of someone named Harrowhark Nonagesimus, and the Nine Houses want them back

. An astounding dual point-of-view familiar to readers of Harrow the Ninth and a cast of loveable characters familiar of the same. The explosive ending leaves me wanting more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Excrement, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Colonisation

The Blood of Eden's attack on necromancers comes with a lot of slur-like terms and bigotry that is reminiscent of (but not a direct copy of) religious bigotry in real life.

voidboi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

that was delightful and also gave me a migraine 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Eating disorder, Incest, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and War

Minor: Genocide, Vomit, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Colonisation

abbyschalupa's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

daydreamermoonwalker's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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 haven't gathered all my thoughts together yet, so I'll leave a more detailed review later, but I absolutely loved it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Note on the terminal illness:

the main character is dying over the course of the story, but it's not from a real world illness. It's more supernatural in nature, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. A minor character also is very ill throughout the story, but again, it's supernatural in nature.

Child death:

the character who dies isn't technically a child, but their memory is wiped so they behave and think like one. So tagged it just in case.

Incest: it is implied by the way two characters interact with each other, but it is not explicitly in the text or at all graphic.

displacedcactus's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

Look, this is the third book in a four book series. You're either going to read it because you're following the series, or you won't because you're not. This one was less weird than Harrow the Ninth but probably more weird than Gideon the Ninth. Fills in a lot of the backstory with WTF is going on with the setting. Importantly

the dog is fine

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing