Harrow the Ninth

One thing that is a little infuriating about The Locked Tomb is that every book has significant secrets from the reader and the narrator at the start. Hints and details get dropped throughout, and by the back half of the novel you understand a lot more about the early action. I only caught onto the main weirdness in this book after about 10 chapters.

While that early confusion can be frustrating, I implore you to keep reading! Nearly all of my early questions get answered before the culminating action, along with dozens of questions I never thought to ask! Muir is an expert at weaving together a narrative and world-building that pays off.

Truly beautiful space fantasy with just enough questions left over to leave you desperate for more answers and more books.

I never expected a book to successfully gaslight me and I would have expected even less that I would enjoy that.

This book manages not only to describe someones descent into madness from intense grief but it makes you feel it yourself. It fractured so many things you thought you knew from the previous book that you constantly doubt your own memory of those past event, but brings everything together towards the end only to leave you with questions again.

It is also repeatedly hilarious and features one of the best dad jokes of all time.

Puesssss, no me ha gustado el ritmo, lo veo excesivo en algunos aspectos, le sobran cosas... Me encanta la imaginación que tiene, pero Buff, me ha costado

It’s like if David Lynch wrote lesbian sci-fi fan fiction and I love it.

The first two thirds slightly annoyed me, in the last third it finally made some sense. Would have given this 3 stars if not for the very unexpected dad joke. 😄