IT WAS IN THE CLOSE of the myriadic year of our Lord—that far-off King of Necromancers, that blessed Resurrector of Saints!—that you picked up your sword. This was your first big mistake.
Harrow the Ninth ☠︎︎ Tamsyn Muir ☠︎︎ 2020 ☠︎︎ The Locked Tomb #2
▸ Fantasy | Science Fiction
My Final Rating: 10 skulls out of 10.
Memoryyyyyyyyy. All alone in the moooooooonlight. 🎶
The Locked Tomb is turning out to be an amazing series. The universe is rich, lived in; it makes you want to search every nook and cranny and reveal all its secrets (I never want these books to end.) The plot is engaging in a way that boggles my mind and makes it look like I'm talking gibberish whenever I try to explain it to my friends. The writing is top notch. Very unique. I cannot state how much I love it.
Then, in order not to repeat myself, I'll speak about other things, plot-wise, that plagued my mind when I finished this one. So:
🚨 WARNING. MAJOR SPOILERS. HUGE. WARNING. 🚨
Okay... was no one going to tell me Nona the Ninth (which in my language is Nona a Nona LMAO gotta hand it to the translators, superb job) wasn’t part of the original plan for this series? I had no idea it was supposed to be a trilogy and not four books until I finished this one and realised the next work was supposed to be Alecto the Ninth (which hasn’t been published yet, but I try not to think about it too much.)
And now, by the end of Harrow the Ninth, we're virtually where we began. The ending of this book was also the beginning of it: a protagonist with fucked up memories. Fine, in this one, Harrow had purposefully lobotomised herself to forget Gideon's death (which same) and by the end my impression is that Harrow/Gideon forgot *everything* this time around, since they both "died," so it's a different kind of forgetting. But I don't know... I loved this book two/too, but I'm not sure how I feel about this choice. Will I read Nona the Ninth, though? Abso-fucking-lutely. Nothing can keep me from fulfilling my destiny: beaming this story into my eyeballs at the speed of light.
Also, Ianthe, COME ON. I'm frothing at the mouth. That reverse UNO card at the end was so fucking cool, queen shit, really, but UGH so infuriating as well. John, the God, confirmed to be more powerful than Jon, Dr Manhattan, even if he behaves surprisingly less god-like than the latter, go figure. And, all right, I guess if John has to die, it will probably be via the power of resurrected girl rage, but that won't happen until book four, I guess. I'm okay with that. I trust Muir. My mind is buzzing with theories and ideas, and I won't complain about having more TLT content to read.
I have an inkling the star does not feed on John's power, though. This is also a lie he made up to cover his ass since he's clearly a liar liar pants on fire, but it could go either way. I'm excited to meet the BOE and I'm sure they'll play a bigger part in the next book (this is probably one of the reasons why there are four books, so Muir could flesh out some plot points before jumping into the big boss fight.) And I'm sure John kept the "perfect" Lyctoral process a secret because it would create a being as powerful as him and we're not polytheists in this spaceship! Also also, Palamedes for sure cracked this code, or realised there is another way... One that doesn't require the death of a cavalier. I'm excited to find out what will happen to him and Camilla going forward. They are my favourite characters after Gideon herself and if anyone besides Alecto can go against God, it's probably them.
But now a moment of silence for our fallen hero.
I miss you so much. Who are we without your endless wit and charm? 😔
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