A review by ireadinbed
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.5

You ever take a long time to read a book because you just feel like it can't live up to the hype? I did that with this book. 

And it was such a mistake. Hype fully lives up to. So Irreverent and gross and very epic feeling. 

Loved the characters. Enjoyed the texture a lot. The world building is very interesting and layered. 

It did suffer a bit from that big fantasy book too much infor at once in the first bits, but it evened out quickly and the rest read spectacularly fast. 

I would have given this 5 stars if there had been a bit better foreshadowing on a few things. I think. 

The only thing is 
there is a bit at the end that just felt 'bury your gays' esque. I'm not sure it qualifies, but I was real not happy about it. But there was some mystery it may be resolved later.


It might be a 5star reread and I can totally see myself rereading it. I'm pretty sure this will be a buy for me and I only buy a few books a year so that's saying something! 
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