As a result, the remnant of Gideon’s soul that Harrow had hidden within herself awakens and takes over Harrow’s body, the only giveaway being a change in eye color. At the end of the last installment, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House, has slipped out of her body and into The River between the real world and the afterlife. Gird yer loins.**Ī QUICK RECAP: Right, so, Harrow the Ninth.
**From here, this Nona the Ninth review is gonna be spoiler city. If you enjoyed twisting and turning the Rubik’s cube of Harrow, then there’s plenty to surprise and delight you in Nona. I won’t pretend this book isn’t as intricate and bewildering as Harrow felt. If it sounds cloying, insufficiently action-packed, or too gauzy with metaphor, then you might find it more challenging. Found family, a child’s-eye view defamiliarizing a world that readers understand more than the protagonist does, the magic of pulling a coherent self through various times and bodies… If that’s a vibe you can get down with, then you’ll love Nona. But a blur in the best way.įor all of The Locked Tomb series’ taglines (“lesbian necromancers in space!”) and frustrated comparisons ( “People often ask me to recommend more books like Gideon the Ninth … Here’s the short answer: There aren’t any.”), as I barreled headfirst through Nona the Ninth the overwhelming association in my mind was with The Thief Lord. Fifteen hundred pages of lesbian necromancy and intergalactic bone magic in just a smidge over a week? Yeah, it’s been a blur. Now, to celebrate the arrival of the newest installment Nona the Ninth, I decided to sprint through a full Locked Tomb series reread. Waiting for the hype around Gideon to die down had turned into that distant, wistful oh-I’ve-been-meaning-to-read-that feeling every time someone mentioned it, and it was only when sequel Harrow the Ninth arrived that I got to it. What does this have to do with amnesiac bone magicians, their semi-undead trash-talking-and-sword-fighting himbos, and the world of Tamsyn Muir’s bestselling series? Bear with me. I remember practically swallowing it whole after bringing it home from a Scholastic book fair, and it’s lurked in the back of my memory, ripe for nostalgia. Who here remembers The Thief Lord? It was the debut middle grade novel of Cornelia Funke, the author behind the beloved Inkheart series, and it featured a ragtag bunch of orphans in Venice committing petty theft and pursuing a magical merry-go-round that allowed its riders to age forward or backward in time. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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