A review by bluenarcissus
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This book starts slow but accelerates to a, if you'll pardon the pun, breakneck speed. I found myself appreciating the slowness by the end -
it's almost like it forces you into the experience of our unreliable and highly engaging narrator. 

I won't get into the ending but it was so intense that I couldn't sleep afterward! The relationships built between the main characters and reversals are shocking in the best way. </spoilers>

If you can get through the first third, you're golden. Then tarnished. Then blood-spattered. Then something else entirely that is also somehow golden. 
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