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Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
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:
Yes
This is a Booktok recommendation win! I’d been seeing it all over and I finally got from the library.
First sentence and I was enthralled: ‘In the Myriadic year of our Lord– the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death! - Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth.’
This has SO much world building that was incredibly interesting but kinda hard to follow. The writing was good enough that I was still interested when people were monologuing.
I will say my initial theories were completely wrong and I shook by some of the reveals. Though nothing comes from Gideon’s dirty magazine which was disappointing.
It’s kinda interesting that this futuristic world with intricate rituals/advanced magic and procedures also say things like “It’s go time.”
Some of the names are needlessly complicated and made up. Harrowhark I kept wanting to call her HarrowSHARK and then you have Gideon.
I’m down to read the next book.
“Down there reside the sum of all necromantic transgression… the unperceivable howl of 10,000 million unfed ghosts who will hear each echoed footstep as defilement. They would not even be satisfied if they tore you apart. The space beyond that door, profoundly haunted in ways I cannot say, and by means you won’t understand, and you may die by violence, or you may simply lose your soul.”
“The Eighth never forgot that the Ninth was never meant to be.”
First sentence and I was enthralled: ‘In the Myriadic year of our Lord– the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death! - Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth.’
This has SO much world building that was incredibly interesting but kinda hard to follow. The writing was good enough that I was still interested when people were monologuing.
I will say my initial theories were completely wrong and I shook by some of the reveals. Though nothing comes from Gideon’s dirty magazine which was disappointing.
It’s kinda interesting that this futuristic world with intricate rituals/advanced magic and procedures also say things like “It’s go time.”
Some of the names are needlessly complicated and made up. Harrowhark I kept wanting to call her HarrowSHARK and then you have Gideon.
I’m down to read the next book.
“Down there reside the sum of all necromantic transgression… the unperceivable howl of 10,000 million unfed ghosts who will hear each echoed footstep as defilement. They would not even be satisfied if they tore you apart. The space beyond that door, profoundly haunted in ways I cannot say, and by means you won’t understand, and you may die by violence, or you may simply lose your soul.”
“The Eighth never forgot that the Ninth was never meant to be.”