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A review by rainywave
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
4.0
While it took me a while to formulate my thoughts on Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, I will give this book this: its ambitious.
The loop the audience is thrown down is very remarkable, and often hard to wrap your head around, but I stayed on board because of the characters of Harrow (and Gideon) and Ianthe.
The dark mystery about the true nature of Lyctorhood ascension and Harrow's "incomplete" power was captivating. The mind games played between Ianthe, Mercy, Augustine, and John were also fairly good in this book.
However, I do dock the book a few points by beginning to head in a direction that makes me less interested in the series (everything about who John truly is) and the creeping in of the "clever" and "funny" millennial references. To me, these aspects pull me out of the High Sci-Fantasy world that Muir led us into, and I don't particularly care for their past connections.
Thankfully, however, these are kept to a minimum in this book, as the Harrow/Gideon perspective keeps us removed from that enough to be enjoyable.
I cannot say the same for Nona the Ninth, but that is a review for that book.
The loop the audience is thrown down is very remarkable, and often hard to wrap your head around, but I stayed on board because of the characters of Harrow (and Gideon) and Ianthe.
The dark mystery about the true nature of Lyctorhood ascension and Harrow's "incomplete" power was captivating. The mind games played between Ianthe, Mercy, Augustine, and John were also fairly good in this book.
However, I do dock the book a few points by beginning to head in a direction that makes me less interested in the series (everything about who John truly is) and the creeping in of the "clever" and "funny" millennial references. To me, these aspects pull me out of the High Sci-Fantasy world that Muir led us into, and I don't particularly care for their past connections.
Thankfully, however, these are kept to a minimum in this book, as the Harrow/Gideon perspective keeps us removed from that enough to be enjoyable.
I cannot say the same for Nona the Ninth, but that is a review for that book.