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I was really excited to read this and I finally got around it. I really enjoyed it. This was such a fun adventure/mystery with a little touch of sapphic. The humor in this was fantastic, I listened on audiobook and the narrator did an amazing job. Gideon is so funny I love her. I think this book does live up to the hype and I will probably end up re-reading in the future and will certainly carry on the series. Also the ending was pretty crazy.

momma_mars's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

lowe_'s review against another edition

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4.0

I'm writing this review after reading the other two books in the series, and I feel like if I had written it immediately after reading Gideon, my rating would be lower.
There's nothing wrong with the book and after revisiting it, I love it a lot more, but when I first read it, I didn't particularly care about the characters.
I loved the prose, and I liked the interactions between Gideon and Harrow, and later on Palamedes and Camilla, but the only thing that made the initial slow pace worth it were the very last chapters.
I still think it's a worthy introduction to the series.

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2.0

I don't know how I made it until the end. I wanted to DNF this multiple times, yet each time I saw how far I was into the story I figured I'd keep going. Unfortunately for me this was a waste of time.

The premise is gorgeous, gothic, absolutely haunting; everything about this story SCREAMS me. However, it seemed to fall short on everything it promises. Not too fond of the pacing in this book, didn't really care for any of the characters, nor was it an easy task to decipher who was who. They all sort of blended together after a while.

Not to mention the lack of world building for my personal taste. I felt as though we were thrown into this world expected to know everything and the book never made a habit to fill in the blanks.

I understand why everyone enjoys this so much, however, this just wasn't for me. I don't see myself perusing the rest of the series.

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5.0

Every time I see a literary agent write "I want to read something that's never been done before in the history of mankind" a paragraph away from "I want the next [insert successful fantasy book]" I die a little bit inside. To me, it speaks not only of a lack of faith in good new material but also of indecisiveness, a cowardly sort of craving for security that demands both originality and conformity of a writer. Worst of all, I have no idea what to imagine when I read it. What is a book like that even supposed to look like?

Gideon the Ninth. Gideon the Ninth is what it's supposed to look like.
This book takes genre-categorization by the balls, sets it on fire and holds eye-contact while it burns. Considering that there is, of course, nothing new under the sun, this is the closest any book has come to being totally original in my reading experience.

It combines three big traits we rarely see working well together - extremely extensive world building, a progressive perspective and easy humor - and unites them flawlessly within the complex narrative of a frankly insane premise: Lesbian necromancers in space.
Ha! A description that's as accurate as it's insufficient.

The Locked Tomb series is a stick of dynamite among fizzy candles. Bound to become a science fiction classic.

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