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A review by nixwithapen
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
5.0
If you enjoy books that seem to make no sense at first but then all the puzzle pieces fall together to reveal the most bonkers, off-the-wall plot you've ever seen, Harrow the Ninth is absolutely for you.
This book includes scenes like (spoilered in case):
- One of the main characters is revealed to be the product of six people evenly distributed among two threesomes and her biological parents weren't even in the same threesome
- God is a millennial
- Main character is in love with a corpse
- A baby is nearly used as a doomsday device to kill God
- Character puts bone marrow into someone else's soup and then explodes them from the inside out with fragments of bone marrow
- Character fucks a corpse possessed by a ghost (and it's not the main character this is separate)
- There's a coffee shop AU technically
- Bad poetry from a 30-year-old man helps save the day
- DIY lobotomies
All these things somehow come together at the end to form one of the most fucked up plots I think I've ever read, and I love it. I was about just as confused and bewildered as the main character, who, I think it's safe to say, is having an immensely rough go of it.
Basically: read this book, you won't regret it. (Do read Gideon the Ninth beforehand, if you haven't already.)
This book includes scenes like (spoilered in case):
Spoiler
- Ghosts performing an exorcism- One of the main characters is revealed to be the product of six people evenly distributed among two threesomes and her biological parents weren't even in the same threesome
- God is a millennial
- Main character is in love with a corpse
- A baby is nearly used as a doomsday device to kill God
- Character puts bone marrow into someone else's soup and then explodes them from the inside out with fragments of bone marrow
- Character fucks a corpse possessed by a ghost (and it's not the main character this is separate)
- There's a coffee shop AU technically
- Bad poetry from a 30-year-old man helps save the day
- DIY lobotomies
All these things somehow come together at the end to form one of the most fucked up plots I think I've ever read, and I love it. I was about just as confused and bewildered as the main character, who, I think it's safe to say, is having an immensely rough go of it.
Basically: read this book, you won't regret it. (Do read Gideon the Ninth beforehand, if you haven't already.)