A review by rjteverow
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 By a third of the way in, I was feeling drugged. I could not figure out what was going on, I couldn’t follow the narrations, and everything was so convoluted it literally made me feel like my brain wasn’t functioning.

At half way, the fog was clearing - I knew I was still missing huge chunks of information, but now it felt like I could get there - and I couldn’t put the book down. By the last quarter, I was texting my friends every other page about how fucking broken my heart was.

I found the book REALLY hard to get into, but so so worth it by the end of it. I don’t know if I would reread the whole book in a hurry, it does feel like it fucked with my head in a big way, but I am definitely still enamored of the series and even more eager to read the next one. My one thing, which I think was more of an issue in Gideon than in Harrow, is that some of the language and humor feels very time-specific - it won’t necessarily be as funny in several years.
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