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jamgrl 's review for:
Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Update: upon reread it’s still really good
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I couldn’t put this book down; it took over my life for the week and a half I spent reading it, consuming my thoughts.
The tag line on the front of the book is misleading- Gideon is not a necromancer and the book is pretty much not in space. She is definitely a lesbian, though 😂. There is a lot of gloriously sapphic energy in this book. Also, I fell head over heels in love with Gideon, okay. (My spouse has teased me mercilessly.)
This book is hilarious and bleak.
It feels like it should be fun and lighthearted, and it is very fun- I laughed a lot; even during intense moments, the author expertly cut it with humor, which certainly makes it easier to handle some of what goes down.
Warning: the level of fuck-upedness in this book is high. Everything these people end up going through and learning and the reality that gets revealed about their God Undying and the Lyctors: it’s fucked up, okay, so, like, don’t read this book if you want something warm. The first half of the book might give you a false sense of security. It is also brilliant.
Warning #2 (somewhat spoilery): the end is DEVASTATING. Like in a does the dog die? sort of way. I don’t think I have ever been more devastated by the end of a book. I cried an embarrassing amount and now my spouse has declared he has to read it just so he can understand what brought me to such a state. I wished I hadn’t read it. And then I downloaded book 2.
—-
I couldn’t put this book down; it took over my life for the week and a half I spent reading it, consuming my thoughts.
The tag line on the front of the book is misleading- Gideon is not a necromancer and the book is pretty much not in space. She is definitely a lesbian, though 😂. There is a lot of gloriously sapphic energy in this book. Also, I fell head over heels in love with Gideon, okay. (My spouse has teased me mercilessly.)
This book is hilarious and bleak.
It feels like it should be fun and lighthearted, and it is very fun- I laughed a lot; even during intense moments, the author expertly cut it with humor, which certainly makes it easier to handle some of what goes down.
Warning: the level of fuck-upedness in this book is high. Everything these people end up going through and learning and the reality that gets revealed about their God Undying and the Lyctors: it’s fucked up, okay, so, like, don’t read this book if you want something warm. The first half of the book might give you a false sense of security. It is also brilliant.
Warning #2 (somewhat spoilery): the end is DEVASTATING. Like in a does the dog die? sort of way. I don’t think I have ever been more devastated by the end of a book. I cried an embarrassing amount and now my spouse has declared he has to read it just so he can understand what brought me to such a state. I wished I hadn’t read it. And then I downloaded book 2.