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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
challenging
mysterious
5.0
This was a series I very almost did not continue with. Thankfully, I have bookstagram to credit for convincing me as I picked this up in my birthday book haul in July.
I honestly have been struggling to put into words how I feel about this book. I recently reread Gideon the Ninth in preparation to continue the series and found myself LOVING it way more than I did the previous time.
Harrow feels like a fantastic continuation of the series. Where Gideon was witty, heartfelt, and action-packed, Harrow is confusing, mysterious... and action-packed! I was pretty aware going in that I'd most likely be confused for the majority of this book, and yet I still found myself not only enjoying it a lot more than I'd hoped, I also picked up on a surprising amount of details being put down. By the time the reveals started revealing, I felt like one pretty smart cookie! Even though I missed way more than I caught, Muir does a fantastic job of making the reveals entertaining regardless of how much you may have worked out.
Harrow was such a vastly different character to follow, and I loved Muir's choice in changing our MC in this book. We got snippets of Harrow from Gideon book, but she truly shines as her own complex and easy to root for character here. I loved the secondary characters, and God was great.
If you liked the first, I can not see you disliking the second! Unless you really don't do hidden information stories. It is worth the read, I swear!
I honestly have been struggling to put into words how I feel about this book. I recently reread Gideon the Ninth in preparation to continue the series and found myself LOVING it way more than I did the previous time.
Harrow feels like a fantastic continuation of the series. Where Gideon was witty, heartfelt, and action-packed, Harrow is confusing, mysterious... and action-packed! I was pretty aware going in that I'd most likely be confused for the majority of this book, and yet I still found myself not only enjoying it a lot more than I'd hoped, I also picked up on a surprising amount of details being put down. By the time the reveals started revealing, I felt like one pretty smart cookie! Even though I missed way more than I caught, Muir does a fantastic job of making the reveals entertaining regardless of how much you may have worked out.
Harrow was such a vastly different character to follow, and I loved Muir's choice in changing our MC in this book. We got snippets of Harrow from Gideon book, but she truly shines as her own complex and easy to root for character here. I loved the secondary characters, and God was great.
If you liked the first, I can not see you disliking the second! Unless you really don't do hidden information stories. It is worth the read, I swear!