![]() ![]() If you don’t love it, Nona the Ninth is not for you. ![]() ![]() If you love it, read Harrow the Ninth, and then read this. I think my lack of objectivity here actually makes me the perfect person to talk about the third book in the series, because if you’re not already a fan, this is not the place to start. The complicated social structure and messy magic system – rooted in characters I adored – and despised – and despised and then adored – told in a voice that combines flowery-high-fantasy speak (“In the myriadic year of Our Lord – the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death”) with vibrant modern slang (“Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit”)…. At first I resisted Gideon the Ninth, the way one does when absolutely everyone is saying, “This thing is so great, you’ll love it,” and one was an angry teen punk contrarian still struggling to find joy in life.īut when I fell, I fell hard. I must cop to my biases right off the bat: I am a hardened and unrepentant Locked Tomb fanboy. ![]()
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