A review by haloform
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.
i love to read terrible books for fun but this one was so genuinely awful i couldnt do it.  firstly, its apparently a master/slave romance.  i hope i dont have to say anything else about that.  secondly, its painfully obvious that it was written by an author who got her start in fanfiction: the writing is incredibly poorly done and awkward with seemingly random adjectives thrown in haphazardly to sentences where they make no sense.  theres no grasp of tone and the worldbuilding was evidently done by someone whos used to the way you get to lean on the source media's worldbuilding when writing fanfiction.  the overuse of sexual innuendo and snappy dialogue, including things shoehorned in to moments that should be serious, mark muir as a homstuck fanfic author specifically.  
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