A review by booking_along
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

If my heart had a dick you would kick it.


Gideon was one of the best characters to read about. She’s one of those characters that are just a joy to read. 
even though with Gideon, it’s a bit strange to say that, not only on regards of the story itself, but also her character which is just not a joyful character at all. 

She’s a snarky ball of sarcasm, deadly and stab happy and would fight a blanket if it looked at her either too long or in a funny way.

But at the same time she’s incredibly caring and loving, friendly and buried deep under all that quick snark she clearly likes people. 

so i just enjoyed her and how the story was told with her voice. 

the plot itself was good. 
honestly it was very chaotic and for 99% of the book it feels like nobody including the author actually knew where it was going and if anything will ever make sense or if there even is an explanation to everything. 
and for a lot of things there are never real and logical explanations given. 


the murder mysteries and strange puzzles and what it all means are interesting, but  i am not sure if i enjoyed it or was just happy once the story finally got over those sections and moved on to trying to short through what’s going on overall. 

also the constant thing of nobody being and doing what they were or said to be… it was a lot. 

and at the end… there kinda is one that makes some resemblance of sense, so there is that i guess? 
what i mean by that it is that there are some resemblance of tries given to explain what’s happening through this book ins own ways. but even those are chaotic and leave a lot more question then answers are given. 
also the end is a lot of action to the point where i just wanted it to come to an end somehow because i was getting bored with the kind of fights given. 


honestly this story is build on the characters and the writing style itself and less on the actual plot and/or logic or really any kind of connectable sense. 


the actual ending ending of this book through? 
i am not sure if i want throw something, cry, rip the book or either reread it right away or go on to the next one or never touch this series again. 

i am frustrated and sad and the same amounts of disbelief and shock that the author actual did that.

which to be fair is just part of the entire range of emotions i went through while reading the book. 


i enjoyed this book. a lot. 
but i also kind of hate it? 
which is interesting. not sure i ever raged loved a book before? wasn’t even aware sich a thing could happen. 

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