Reviews

Nona la nona by Tamsyn Muir

bookthief404's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

Tamsin Muir has done it again. 
Expanding on her insane universe from the most unique perspectives. This series is a puzzle the reader can only put together by reading each book multiple times. 

Enjoyed thoroughly, very funny. 

clovetra's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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? No

4.0

another day, another tamsyn muir book where once i finish it i have to read the wiki and multiple explanations to understand what in the hell i just read.

tamsyn muir u are the only author i can tolerate confusing me that much with ur books.

now nona… what can i say about nona. she’s so fucking spunky. i loved her. i kept calling her stupid when han asked me my thoughts on this whilst i was reading it and u know what i stand by it. nona is a fucking dumbass. but she’s MY dumbass. i love her and her idiocy. she is the spiritual embodiment of a child trapped in an adult’s body and it was very fun. i will say the whole “mc is a dumbass therefore the reader doesn’t know wtf is going on because the mc is left in the dark therefore the reader is” schtick in this series twice was not my favourite! with gideon i think it defo worked because it wasn’t that she was dumb, she just didn’t give a shit. but it’s almost like nona purposefully didn’t want to learn about anything going on, which was infuriating because!!!!! hey I WANT TO KNOW WHATS GOING ON!!!!! and especially because nona has the intelligence of an earthworm when she IS interested in what the fuck is going on, nobody explains shit to her because she is too dumb to grasp shit!!!! meaning IM STILL IN THE DARK!!!!!!!!! just because i am used to being lost in a first read through of muir’s novels doesn’t make it any less annoying for me. 

i did enjoy all the other characters as well. ofc i will always go fucking insane for my babies palamedes and camilla. i am so happy i got 480 more pages of those two. and HELLOOOOOO i love the concept of how pyrrha came to exist. i love the unique spin on her character being trans. iykyk. 

the plot itself was….. meh? like don’t get me wrong i adored the school chapters (hot sauce you have my heart), but everything else was weirdly paced and lowkey not that interesting? i did oddly enough really like the john chapters, but the plot behind-the-scenes with blood of eden was not interesting to me. finding out who nona truly was wasn’t interesting to me. what WAS more interesting to me honestly was nona’s day to day life. idk i oddly enough really liked the domestic chapters LMAO. which is rare for me. but once the plot picked up it was a bit… boring. because lowkey i knew everything would work out. i mean how could it not. half the fucking cast at this point is immortal, so there felt like there were no stakes therefore i kinda didn’t care. and because there was so much shit going on, as well as the fact NONE OF THE SHIT WAS EXPLAINED, i just kinda sat there being like “ok when’s something fun gonna happen again”. and im not even saying there wasn’t fun shit past day four, i’m just saying i like to complain.

at times this book lowkey almost felt like fan service, and as much as i did love kiriona, crown, paul, etc. it felt cheap almost to me. it felt like i did not Deserve it. nothing happens and then suddenly i feel like im reading a fanfic written by a teen who got excited and added every possible cool thing they wanted to happen to the story. that sounds so mean but its how it felt LMAO . i liked it but it did not feel fair. 

like always i will adore my love tamsyn muir. i did have a lot of fun with this. and i eagerly await alecto the ninth. but idk this book felt like it was a bit all over the place. can’t lie and say i didn’t have a good ol time tho!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Cursing and Xenophobia

katiev13's review against another edition

5.0

6/5 stars. I’m gonna need someone to explain that ending to me because what the actual fuck

zeddlonglastname's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

"Get in line, thou big slut."

umbreonne's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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

tiemeinbows's review against another edition

5.0

Spent 85% of this absolutely confused and thrilled about it, sad I have to wait for the conclusion, but very interested to see where this is headed.

laurenheller's review against another edition

4.0

So complicated. Need to reread all three books.

katos's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

tjdallas7's review against another edition

5.0

Epic, once again. Though I keep going into these books hoping for answers and coming out with more questions

sarahpants's review against another edition

5.0

immediately had to go back and reread some parts

These books are incredibly difficult to review without giving anything away and spoiling it for others. I can say that I completely understand why the author broke this out to it’s own book and I see how it would have been difficult to cut this down to only be an intro to Alecto. I loved the scenes with John (again, hard to review without spoiling) and what we learned during those bits. I’m very conflicted over john’s character and I can’t what to see the interactions between him and alecto and as always, I can’t wait for more Harrow and Gideon.

I went through these books in a little over three days, so it goes without saying that I enjoyed them and they’re so worth it.