I was bored through most of this book and I can’t really figure out why. Gideon the Ninth has so much that I love - sarcastic characters, queer characters, mysteries in haunted houses, puzzles to be solved. Not to mention the necromancy and the way that all magic is viewed through the lens of being either life or death magic. I can’t explain it but this book didn’t click with me until pretty late in the book at one specific scene. And after that, I was all in.

So. Let’s see how Harrow the Ninth is, eh?