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A review by woweewhoa
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
emotional
mysterious
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? It's complicated
4.5
I was a big fan of this book! I think Nona is a very big surprise character and is one I really liked a Lot, and is honestly my favorite protag of these books.
As someone who read each book a year apart because I didn't want to rush through it(and also that's just the kind of reader I am), I felt this book stood very well on its own and brought in the elements of the other two books in such a way where they don't need to be 100% fresh on your mind but still is impactful.
I came to this book being Really 'eh' on Harrow the Ninth, especially since I was Extremely Into Gideon the Ninth, and decided to give this book a shot because I wasn't sure if it was because the book was just 'Okay' or if it was just my mindset when I read it, because I had some mutuals whose opinion's i respect who were really into the whole series, and I'm glad I did! This is my favorite of The Locked Tomb and I'm super excited now to read the last book when that comes out!
Also I do feel like Tamsyn Muir's writing has really improved in this book, which is just really cool as a reader to see! Like seeing a comic artist get better at drawing throughout the series.
Also, I really liked the setting of this book, because I think contextualizing the world more clearly in not just the view of the Houses, and more just the normal cities that exist in any empire, was a fantastic move. My favorite arcs of Gundam are the ones that zoom into the people Living On Earth who are generally not the people politically gaining From not separating the colonies, because those are the normal people. what if you aren't benefitting in any way any of the systems in play, but are forced to field all the consequences of the system whose land your own are causing?
Also Camilla and Palamedes are the most Romantic characters on the planet their love is just so alive oh my god. some of the final act stuff involving them is just. some of my favorite parts of the book.
Sorry if this was a mess of a review to read, but I AM super high and my roommate's cat is continually yelling at me because it is less than an hour before dinner time and even though i have Never fed her early she is just like this. Very hard to write a review like this, but I hope you got what I was putting down!
As someone who read each book a year apart because I didn't want to rush through it(and also that's just the kind of reader I am), I felt this book stood very well on its own and brought in the elements of the other two books in such a way where they don't need to be 100% fresh on your mind but still is impactful.
I came to this book being Really 'eh' on Harrow the Ninth, especially since I was Extremely Into Gideon the Ninth, and decided to give this book a shot because I wasn't sure if it was because the book was just 'Okay' or if it was just my mindset when I read it, because I had some mutuals whose opinion's i respect who were really into the whole series, and I'm glad I did! This is my favorite of The Locked Tomb and I'm super excited now to read the last book when that comes out!
Also I do feel like Tamsyn Muir's writing has really improved in this book, which is just really cool as a reader to see! Like seeing a comic artist get better at drawing throughout the series.
Also, I really liked the setting of this book, because I think contextualizing the world more clearly in not just the view of the Houses, and more just the normal cities that exist in any empire, was a fantastic move. My favorite arcs of Gundam are the ones that zoom into the people Living On Earth who are generally not the people politically gaining From not separating the colonies, because those are the normal people. what if you aren't benefitting in any way any of the systems in play, but are forced to field all the consequences of the system whose land your own are causing?
Also
Sorry if this was a mess of a review to read, but I AM super high and my roommate's cat is continually yelling at me because it is less than an hour before dinner time and even though i have Never fed her early she is just like this. Very hard to write a review like this, but I hope you got what I was putting down!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Gun violence, Death, Body horror, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Suicide, Eating disorder, War, and Murder
Regarding the Fire/Fire injury: There is a character described with burns early on in the book, and then most of the book they're not ever really talked about. Then toward the last quarter(third?) of the book, there is a very explicitly detailed scene of a character bursting into flames, which is much in line with the way this book normally describes body horror and gore.