aether 's review for:

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

5.0

emotional 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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Few books have ever made me so intent on peeling apart the mystery within its pages. The day after I finished the book, I spent half an hour the next morning cross referencing pieces of it with the other two. I took a walk with my dog when I was 3/4ths of the way through and had an epiphany about the characters, I couldn't wait to get home and jot it down to see if it squared out. I wrote all the theories I had going in on the front cover. I was SO CONSUMED by this book and this series in ways I never have. I pushed everything in my life aside to see this book through and it was so incredibly worth it. It's wild to see the characters have a path in front of them, and then watch them go "screw it" and take a completely different turn. This will give the previous two books a totally different meaning.