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Has anyone here read the Locked Tomb series? Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth. I just finished it on Wednesday and my mind is blown. I feel like it was so deep. There was so much symbolism and so many layers to analyze.
I don’t have anybody in my real life to talk to it about it. I did find Necrofancy if anybody else is in my shoes- it’s a podcast that discusses books. They are currently on Harrow the Ninth and will do Nona sometime later. (https://necrofancy.armadillo.club/episodes/harrow-the-ninth-chapters-21-28)
I was a fan of Tamsyn Muir back in her fanfiction days. You can really see some of that influence in the way she writes in The Locked Tomb - it was very comfortable reading even though it spends a lot of time layering foreshadowing and intentionally misdirecting or confusing readers.
Hope we get Alecto some time in my lifetime.
intentionally misdirecting or confusing readers.
Holy cow! So true l. I listened to Harrow the Ninth on audiobook and I missed so much by not reading the words on the page. I’ll just say I had to listen to two scenes over and over because of the Ortus/Gideon naming. I’m sure it made more sense on paper than it did listening to it.
OMG the John chapters in Nona drove me crazy. I kept reading a bible trying to figure out what the correlation was with the gospel and the chapter. I got desperate and went online and someone said to turn the numbers into letters…. Was that how she was writing her fanfics? If so, that’s very talented.
I hope Alecto comes out soon. It looks like it’s been pushed back a few times. I feel like there are a lot of loose ends to tie up so I hope she takes her time….. but not too much time.
Can't remember if puzzles showed up all that often in her fanfiction, but the unreliable second person narration you see in Harrow and the amount of ridiculous and esoteric references are definitely Homestuck fanfiction hallmarks.
I read it last year, I absolutely loved it! I definitely need to do a reread though, especially of the last two books.
I hated Gideon the Ninth. Made me decide that I would never read another YA book.
Same. I read Gideon the ninth and I did not like it. I found it quiet boring really and the lesbian aspect (yes I did read it mostly for that) was almost none existent.
same, i saw 'lesbian necromancers in space' and i thought there was no way i wouldn't love it. but despite branding itself as that, it doesn't do any of those concepts particularly well. that was one of the reasons i hated this is how you lose the time war too, i want my gay books to actually be gay!!
Do you have any good lesbian book recs? I know they post recommendations on the lesbian board sometimes. That’s actually where I heard about The Locked Tomb series and why I read Gideon the Ninth to begin with. I read it for the lesbians but stayed for the story. I won’t lie, I was a little disappointed about the lack of lesbian relationships initially.
I have heard about this book mentioned in fiction circles. How bad is it? My scoring scale with relatively recent titles: This is how we lost the time war - 10/10 will full reread She who became the sun - 7/10 enjoyable read, fun concept Iron widow - 3/10 interesting concept, cringe fanfiction level writing
damn i hated time war even more than gideon 😭. since we have different tastes you may enjoy it!