fionah822 's review for:

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

5.0

adventurous emotional funny 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: Complicated

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One of  my favorite books of all time. Difficult to describe, and even harder to describe while sounding sane. If you like mystery, characters so colorful (and horrible) they jump off the page, and enemies that think about each other a suspicious amount, read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Cannibalism, Death of parent

Main characters are necromancers and can control and create bodies/flesh/bones. Sometimes that gets a bit icky. Also, obviously, a book about necromancers has a lot of death. It's hard to tag content warnings without spoiling because a lot of these content warnings are "yes, but..." or "well, technically..."