I have never had more fun being gaslit by a work of fiction. 

Harrow picks up where Gideon left off, kinda, and then we spend 400 pages asking ourselves if that’s how it really happened. New characters are introduced, lots of people swap and share bodies. People you thought were dead are not(?), others who you thought lived maybe died (?) or perhaps never existed(?). Gore and horrible people abound, and eventually, eventually…we get a few answers. Yes, this is a shrug emoji review. I apologize. 

A friend told me that this series really reminded her of The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin and I can see that! The magic is highly metaphysical and there are multiple planes of existence. The language is unique and opaque and arcane and still hilarious. You will feel like a wild conspiracy theorist trying to explain the plot of this book to anyone else.