Gideon the Ninth
Dec. 1st, 2019 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraI feel like I've seen a lot of recs for Gideon the Ninth along the lines of "omg it's great and I can't say anything about it" and indeed I read it without knowing anything about it other than "lesbian necromancers in space" and thought that was a great reading experience, so you could stop reading this before I even get to the part where I start comparing it to other books and go have a similar experience. I will throw out the fact that I bumped it way up my priority list when a friend told me that Tamsyn Muir is also a fanfic author she had particularly liked (in a fandom I don't myself read). Other than the fic link, it's like the Goth offspring of Hunger Games, The Westing Game, and a country house mystery like And Then There Were None; might also appeal to people who wanted Nix's Confusion of Princes to be better than it was (I have an unfinished alternate ending of that somewhere), and, let's see, I think I'd also like to recommend it to fans of the Machineries of Empire series. In terms of specifics, the setting/worldbuilding/atmosphere are really well done; Muir's doing some very clever combining of different aesthetics. And the writing is well done in other ways; there are some great lines and character beats, and once it gets going it's hard to put down. I'll definitely read the next one.
A few more thoughts behind a cut: I think "abusive childhood played for comedy" is a really tricky line to walk, and I was pretty turned off by the first few chapters, but it had me at the sunglasses, and I was sold after that, and, as mentioned, eventually found it hard to put down.
A few more thoughts behind a cut: I think "abusive childhood played for comedy" is a really tricky line to walk, and I was pretty turned off by the first few chapters, but it had me at the sunglasses, and I was sold after that, and, as mentioned, eventually found it hard to put down.
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