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sophia_sol) wrote2022-10-17 07:34 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2022-10-17 07:34 pm
Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
The third book in the Locked Tomb trilogy quartet! I had to reread the first two books because like, this series may be great but it is also MEGA confusing and I already struggle enough with remembering what happened in previous books when the new book in a series comes out! This time I went into Gideon the Ninth armed with an illustrated guide to all the cavaliers and necromancers, which house each belongs to, and what various names/titles they all go by. This helped ENORMOUSLY in being able to follow the dang thing, and I had a much better experience than my first go. And then, having been able to follow the first book made following Harrow the Ninth much easier too! I knew who Ianthe was, for example, and could understand her character better, and was capable of having opinions about her!
So then I felt as prepared as I could be to go into Nona the Ninth.
And it was GREAT. Was it also confusing? Yes, absolutely. Being confused is the Normal State Of Being when interacting with these books, in my humble opinion. But I understood enough! And oh gosh there are many amazing things about it!
Except that the first thing I did upon finishing reading it was go to my rss reader and read through all the tumblr posts, so now I kind of feel like all the important things have already been said by other people, which makes it much harder to write a review. Oops.
But I cared so much about so many characters, and I have so much admiration for Tamsyn Muir's writing (she uses words so deliciously, and also is great at creating imagery!), and I cannot WAIT to find out what happens in Alecto the Ninth!
So then I felt as prepared as I could be to go into Nona the Ninth.
And it was GREAT. Was it also confusing? Yes, absolutely. Being confused is the Normal State Of Being when interacting with these books, in my humble opinion. But I understood enough! And oh gosh there are many amazing things about it!
Except that the first thing I did upon finishing reading it was go to my rss reader and read through all the tumblr posts, so now I kind of feel like all the important things have already been said by other people, which makes it much harder to write a review. Oops.
But I cared so much about so many characters, and I have so much admiration for Tamsyn Muir's writing (she uses words so deliciously, and also is great at creating imagery!), and I cannot WAIT to find out what happens in Alecto the Ninth!
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Haha WHAT a mood, this absolutely happened to me too! But I'm very happy about that, really, because people have said such good and thoughtful and in-depth things and I feel like I'm very well-equipped for my Alecto read. Also, one of the things I loved so, so much about Nona as a book is that the previous ones absolutely made me feel many things and were very full of Vibes, but this book was the first one where I felt like I understood the actual shape of the world (there's a huge difference between "lol it's so full of memes, maybe we're in the future solar system and Jod was a tumblr kid" and what was actually laid out in the Book of John sections) AND the first book where I felt like I'm really grasping what this series is going for thematically. Anyway, ahhh I loved it.
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