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Necromancers in space seemed too good and bizarre of a concept to pass. And I'm glad I didn't.
The book mixes very well creepy, seriousness and the wondrous with absurd jokes, witticisms and action. In less skilled hands maybe this could end up disastrous, but here it made the story flow really well.
In this world there are Nine Houses of necromancy, each with their own specialty and purpose, and then 18 of them (a necromancer and their bodyguard - classical swordsman/woman) all travel to a citade ...more
The book mixes very well creepy, seriousness and the wondrous with absurd jokes, witticisms and action. In less skilled hands maybe this could end up disastrous, but here it made the story flow really well.
In this world there are Nine Houses of necromancy, each with their own specialty and purpose, and then 18 of them (a necromancer and their bodyguard - classical swordsman/woman) all travel to a citade ...more
There are really just two things a person should know about Gideon the Ninth before reading it:
1. You will spend most of the book understanding very little. There is a lot of misinformation, nothing gets explained very well, and sometimes things aren't revealed to the reader from the beginning just because it's fun to reveal them later.
2. Even if you are like me and get really frustrated when you are confused, it's absolutely worth it!
I had a hard time getting into the book at the beginning, an ...more
1. You will spend most of the book understanding very little. There is a lot of misinformation, nothing gets explained very well, and sometimes things aren't revealed to the reader from the beginning just because it's fun to reveal them later.
2. Even if you are like me and get really frustrated when you are confused, it's absolutely worth it!
I had a hard time getting into the book at the beginning, an ...more
This book is so wacky, I don't think there's another way to describe it.
Thank god Tamsyn Muir is such a competent author, any less and this book would just be a mess, it has so many dissonant styles both in genre and prose, both elaborate and juvenile at the same time, but Muir makes it work and the result is that this book is such a unique gripping trip of a story.
Now, I'll be honest, it took me a while to acclimate to it. I was curious and fascinated from the first, but (and it might be beca ...more
Thank god Tamsyn Muir is such a competent author, any less and this book would just be a mess, it has so many dissonant styles both in genre and prose, both elaborate and juvenile at the same time, but Muir makes it work and the result is that this book is such a unique gripping trip of a story.
Now, I'll be honest, it took me a while to acclimate to it. I was curious and fascinated from the first, but (and it might be beca ...more
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