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dorambor 's review for:
Harrow the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Finished *Harrow The Ninth* by Tamsyn Muir. This is a hard book to rate. I think the things the book does well it does REALLY well, and the things I didn’t like I REALLY didn’t like. I’ll start with the latter; I couldn’t stand the pacing. I got the gimmick of ||Harrow hallucinating what happened in the last book|| basically immediately and it really overstayed its welcome. It’s intentional I know but the tendency to use ultra specific terminology and archaic words mostly just ruined any momentum I might have reading it, and the anatomy lessons every 20 words or so got VERY grating. I thought the actual plot of the book was a big lowercase ‘fine’ even with how much Muir dances around what characters are actually saying or what is actually happening in the scene. I liked the sibling dialogue between the Lyctors, it felt VERY real to what people sound like when they’ve known each other for a very long time. I enjoyed Harrow’s attempts at ego saving, and was surprised how much more I liked ||Gideon|| in this one, I guess the short time made it tolerable. 6/10 if I had to rate, could be much better if the ||Harrow/Gideon|| reconstitution happened earlier so we could skip a few chapters of the most wrathful egotistical chihuahua suffering.