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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

153 reviews

smugblueenby69's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

This book and series is genuinely the best I’ve read so far. It kept me engaged the whole time, and I will absolutely reread this series as many times as I can. I love Gideon and Harrow so much! They’re so funny and sad and you just want to hold them. I definitely recommend this series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

yogomagpie's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I described this as a series of “that escalated quickly,” nonstop until the end. It’s a total blood bath. I have a lot of questions and I wish I could look up each character online. But I can’t, because I fear I might stumble upon a spoiler from the next books in the series. So the only thing to do is barrel ahead with Harrow the Ninth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

nefariousbee'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

read it for the third time, it just doesn't get old. each time I find something new, something I missed, something I can appreciate more with knowing more from other books or fan theories. it's hard to get into it once you do... I haven't read a more impactful book series. there is just so much depth to everything. we could study this thing for entire semesters and never run out of stuff to talk about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

First of all, how DARE you give me a hot buff sword-fighting lesbian, let me get so so attached, and then have her reflect my deepest insecurities back to me. It felt a little slow until Gideon was finally being let in on a little of anything instead of wandering the halls. After that, it felt like a boulder rolling down a hill just picking up speed and stakes until it punched me right in the ribcage. The tension in early action scenes was cut by Gideon being a smartass, but as it progressed it felt very intense and it just kept growing. Every character was so intriguing, even those with a little less development (Second, mainly) but everyone was incredibly charming. I am hungry for more but I think I need a minute to lie on the floor and stare at a wall for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

nie_fertig's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I've heard a LOT of good things about the Locked Tomb series and I can see why it's so popular! I mean who doesn't love lesbian necromancers with swords, plus a pinch of a good murder mystery?! :D
However, as amazing as these concepts are, I just couldn't get super invested into the worldbuilding and characters?? I think it's because I was always exhausted when I read it (thank you two part-time jobs,,,), but it was just too much for me and I lost track of a LOT of the many incredible characters
I think I'll try to read the next book after I quit one of my jobs, cause then I'll have more time to invest in the worldbuilding and characters, but for now, I'm going to hold off
I will admit though, the ending FLOORED me even though I was lost most of the time, so it's absolutely worth the read whenever you get the chance!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

jodean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Kelsey has been trying to get me to read this for a while. Glad I finally listened. 
I will say the audio book specifically is done very well. I switched to it from the paper version and was able to follow much better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Vomit, and Murder

Minor: Self harm, Slavery, and War

divine529's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

This book is billed as lesbian necromancers in space, but that's the bare minimum of what this book is about. 

This book follows Gideon the Ninth, an orphan who has been indentured to serve the House of the Ninth, a cultist group of necromancers who are sworn to protect a tomb which holds the Emperor's worst enemy, and ultimately Harrow the Ninth, the leader/queen/head of Ninth House. Harrow and Gideon despise each other, but get thrust together to become a team to serve Ninth House in their quest to become Lyctor and all kinds of political intrigue and chaos ensues. 

I wasn't sure what to expect from this coming in and wasn't even sure this was something I would like, but friends convinced me and I'm so glad they did because I thoroughly enjoyed this. If I were to describe this as anything it's basically "And Then There Were None" meets "The Hunger Games". And I understand the comparison to RotE. 

I live and breathe for certain relationship dynamics in this book - Harrow and Gideon at the end is everything and I adore Cam and Pal more than anything (they're my faves). I found all of the characters interesting, even if I didn't like them, the plot took all kinds of interesting twists and turns, a lot I figured out, but some came out of nowhere. The writing was pretty good overall, but at times had some awkward phrasing that pulled me out of the story a bit and some pacing issues. Also PLEASE heed the CW/TW, it's possible I missed some, so look at the general community ones to make sure you're covered before you read because it's full of them at every turn. 

All in all, a solid start to this series and I'm very interested to see what's going to happen next in Harrow! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Genocide, Vomit, and War

twistykris's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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 re-read to remind myself of the plot before reading Harrow the Ninth; still just as enjoyable, if not more since I felt I could understand what was going on a little better. This Google Doc was an immensely helpful guide (but only for use of a re-read as it does contain spoilers):
https://shorturl.at/ptz28

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Self harm, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Vomit and War

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny 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

Made me cry!!!!
Gideon is crude and funny and brave and kind and a delight. Teenage jock lesbian forced to goth, wears sunglasses about it. 
The plot is So Much (positive) and the Central relationship has pulverised my heart (positive but. OUCH.).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Suicide attempt and War

lmaloney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and War