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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

153 reviews

shy_fairy's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and War

elligo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.25

Gidion the Ninth

I had a lot of fun reading Gideon the Ninth. I really loved Gideon as a character. Her dumb jokes and straight forward thinking made her very likable to me. I also adore a good enemies to I-don't-really-know-what-this-is-lovers? story especially if i'ts childhood enemies and especially if it's saphic. 

The fantasy aspect of the book was interesting and I loved the mystery of it. The story was a bit gory but I don't mind that at all. I like it a bit bloody and disturbing but I can see how that is not for everyone. 

The book loses points for me becaus of the ending. I am just not sur what I am suposed to do with it.

It kinda intreagues to read the next book but for me one of the most appealing part of the book was Gideon herself, so after her death I don't know how much fun I am going to have with the next books.

So 4.25 it is, I am still going to read the next books tho, I plan on it anyway. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Vomit

gayghostprince's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

I'm crying :'( but I love it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

knerys's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

Practically a perfect book. I both wish I had the finess and talent to write this, and wish that I could erase it from my memory to experience for the first time again. <The only reason it didn't get 5 stars is because the ending DESTROYED me and I was so upset. Have high hopes for the rest of the series though. Edit: upon review, and after reading Harrow the Ninth, it absolutely gets 5 stars :).>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Death of parent

beccaand'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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Cannibalism

juliaz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The writing feels a lot like Douglas Adams’  but with more gore and death and less aliens. 

I’m not sure what exactly makes it science-fiction though?? I know they’re like in space and travelling from planet to planet but it still seems like an afterthought to me, even with the futuristic Earth theory. Unless it’ll be more explored in the next books? idk. I didn’t feel like the world building was thrown in my face like other fantasy/sci fi books so it was easy to understand for me.

Overall, I loved the book until the end action scene. I found it was unnecessarily long and made finishing the book so much more unpleasant. I do love the lesbians though. Don’t know what the fuck happened at the end there, but I think

there’s no way that Gideon will stay stuck inside Harrow (ha ha sex joke).

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Vomit

saltylane's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved listening to the audiobook version of this book! The mysteries were dark and intense, and the action would keep you on the edge of your metaphorical seat. The writing style is very fitting to the characters and at times added a little laugh when it got really dire. The ending was amazing and emotional, and I’m already eager to read the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

house_of_hannah's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

2.0

This ended up being much more of a slog to get through than it should have been. It wasn't until the last 100 pages that I was interested enough to want to keep reading. I found myself not reading some days, because I just did not want to pick this book up, and I was quite close to DNF-ing. 

Firstly, this is advertised right on the front cover as, "lesbian necromancers in space". I do feel this a little misleading. The only "confirmed" lesbian character (who could also be argued as bi based on mutliple comments they make throughout the book) is not a necromancer. The story then mostly takes place on Earth, so we're hard pressed to actually have the space vibes that were promised. 

For the first 200 pages of this book nothing happens. It mostly consists of our MC, Gideon, walking down hallways, checking out abandoned rooms, and eating food. She isn't allowed to talk to the other people that are there either, so this whole chunk of story is pretty much just urban exploring. 

When the plot finally starts to get rolling it still doesn't take off like I thought it would. The main meat of this book happens in the last 40 pages, and the ending just kind of left me feeling like the entire thing was pointless. This is a series, but I just cannot see myself wanting to pick up the next book. 

The relationship between the two MCs, Gideon and Harrow, is exceptionally complicated, which does provide some intrigue as we want to see if they can work together. However, their attitudes towards each other shift so drastically in just one scene that it ends up being a bit off-putting. The way the rest of the characters interact with our MCs is just fine though.  

The best thing in this book are by far the fight scenes. Unfortunately, they are few and far between, but they really do shine. Overall, I just feel like this story didn't deliver what it was offering. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and War

mcbenzie's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

This is like nothing I’ve ever read and I loved it. The universe is rich and dark; it’s wonderfully detailed but you learn it - or the relevant part of it - by living it alongside the cast, not through big info dumps, though I did enjoy the extra material at the end of this edition. There’s satisfying mystery, great jokes, development of character and relationships, both magical action and great swordplay, and a cast of major players I came to love. It’s also got a lot of necromantic body horror and it presents the queerness of its major characters as just who they are, though it’s not a romance, even as it has elements of regency honour and romantic ideals. The mash of styles encompasses Game of Thrones, Warhammer 40,000, Pride and Prejudice, Tank Girl and Gormenghast. Frankly it’s the best new thing I’ve read in ages, and I hope you love it as much as I did. Looking forward to the sequels!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Cursing, and Death of parent

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War