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rainandbooklover 's review for:
Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
As a non native English speaker this was TOUGH. Could not understand what was going on half the time?? At first I thought the writing style was just a bit unusual and I would get used to it after a while but I never did??? I sometimes had to reread the same sentence a couple of time and even then wasn’t sure what the author meant? Maybe I’m just not as fluent as I thought but I’ve read 19th century literature that’s more comprehensible than this.
But beyond just the writing, I thought the whole plot and atmosphere were very abstract, trying to be intricate et engaging but failing completely at having any substance. And I did like the magic system, I thought it was very promising, but it was (again) hard to understand how it was actually materialised? Also strange to introduce a fictional universe by putting your characters in a place that’s completely different from their usual lives, like I could not picture what a normal day would look like to these characters?
And just plot wise I was not a fan of the mystery intrigue, and through the plot twist at the end was just to have us go ‘look a plot twist’.Like again maybe I’m just too stupid for this book but why was the Lyctor girl at the end killing them all?? And why did she want to kill the emperor?? Doesn’t make any sense + her motivations are unclear = dumb.
Speaking of the end the last fight sequence went on foreeeeever I thought I was going to give up just ten pages from the end.
But anyway the fact I have so much to say about this proves that it is an interesting read, DEFINITELY NOT FOR ME but worth a try and full of interesting ideas in terms of magic system and (maybe?) world building. Also the characters were cool there was just TOO MANY of them.
But beyond just the writing, I thought the whole plot and atmosphere were very abstract, trying to be intricate et engaging but failing completely at having any substance. And I did like the magic system, I thought it was very promising, but it was (again) hard to understand how it was actually materialised? Also strange to introduce a fictional universe by putting your characters in a place that’s completely different from their usual lives, like I could not picture what a normal day would look like to these characters?
And just plot wise I was not a fan of the mystery intrigue, and through the plot twist at the end was just to have us go ‘look a plot twist’.
Speaking of the end the last fight sequence went on foreeeeever I thought I was going to give up just ten pages from the end.
But anyway the fact I have so much to say about this proves that it is an interesting read, DEFINITELY NOT FOR ME but worth a try and full of interesting ideas in terms of magic system and (maybe?) world building. Also the characters were cool there was just TOO MANY of them.