Reading Update: Locked Tomb edition

Gideon The Ninth by Tamayn Muir

A re-read! Quite the anatomical and necromantical refresher.

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Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

I’ve landed in the odd position of wanting to keep up with this series, but more for the plot than for the characters. Which is not a bad position at all, but means I’m far more interested in trawling through theories on reddit than fic on AO3.

To be clear, I found it enjoyable and fascinating, but in a way completely orthogonal to how I delighted in the previous book. Much like one can’t enjoy Cain’s Jawbone like a normal book, I wouldn’t have a good time if I didn’t like the puzzling it together aspects, for if GtN was a murder mystery where I was emotionally invested in the characters and saddened by deaths, HtN was more like being dropped mid-season into a reality show of assholes and going “lmao you really live like this huh”

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I’d probably have to reread the whole book to fully get it but uh, I have no urge to and will happily let the internet fill in the gaps for me.

Nona The Ninth Excerpts

Yeah I have no self-control.

The three-page prologue

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The 73-page excerpt after that

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