Well, a baby Lyctor who still has a lot to learn. Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor’s Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off? Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath - but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman’s shoulders. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.Īfter rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. There was nothing to see-the shutters were down-but you could feel the terrible vibration, hear the groan of chitin on metal, the cataclysmic rending of steel by fungous claw.
Opening line: Your room had long ago plunged into near-complete darkness, leaving no distraction from the great rocking thump-thump-thump of body after body flinging itself onto the great mass already coating the hull. No spoilers for Harrow but MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR GIDEON THE NINTH BELOW!!! Huge thanks to the Tor.com Gideon the Ninth re-read which caught me up on everything I had forgotten in the most hilarious way. I am now pretty excited for next book, even. And now, although it was not an easy read at all, I am kind of happy with the fact that I did. However! My fellow Hugo award nominators have spoken and as I am quite fond of them and trust their opinion, I did pick it up. I know I’m in the minority with my not very positive opinion about Gideon the Ninth and Tamsyn Muir’s writing style and if it had just been me, Harrow the Ninth would have existed happily without me ever picking it up.
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