This bundle contains volumes 1-3 of Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth.
Gideon the Ninth is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Locked Tomb Series, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle! WINNER of the 2020 Locus Award and Crawford Award Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Dragon, and World Fantasy Awards
Harrow the Ninth, an Amazon pick for Best SFF of 2020 and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.
Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth?
TAMSYN MUIR is the bestselling author of the Locked Tomb Trilogy, which begins with Gideon the Ninth, continues with Harrow the Ninth, and concludes with Alecto the Ninth. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. A Kiwi, she has spent most of her life in Howick, New Zealand, with time living in Waiuku and central Wellington. She currently lives and works in Oxford, in the United Kingdom.
These absolutely live up to the hype. They are bananas in the best way possible - each one has such a different voice, style, tone, structure, but I adore them all! The first book, Gideon is a brilliant locked-room murder-mystery in space starring the best personality clash I’ve read all year - a jock-warrior-girl who just wants to live a carefree life as a fighter,and a burdened-brooding-ultra-serious last-of-her-line necromancer - and it WORKS. It’s enemies-to-lovers, sort of, except not really? I know I sound glib about this one, but the absolute aching beauty of their relationship when they become close is brilliant. And then the second book, Harrow, goes right from the shocking end of book one into an almost stream-of-consciousness, unreliable-narrator ride where neither the protagonist nor the reader know quite what is happening (very purposefully) and the paranoia is justified… it couldn’t be more different of a tone, but it’s amazing. And then Nona, the third book, is utterly different than either of the previous two, starring a cheerful teen who goes about life blissfully not-quite-aware that she is pretty much in the middle of an apocalypse-dystopia… and you just fall in love with her immediately. These books could not be more different, but they are all just SO GOOD.
Gruesome and funny and intense. I think Tamsyn Muir is smarter than I am because I feel as though I lost the plot a few times, but I enjoyed their narrative voice as it grabbed me by the wrist and tugged me through the vortex after it. Hoping very much for a 4th book!
An absolutely mind-blowing space opera that took me on the wildest ride of my life!
What starts as a locked-room mystery in a creepy Space Mansion mid-necromancy contest builds steadily outward until you look up and the whole universe is at stake. Not only a masterclass in unreliable narration, this series is also a perfect balance of scale: sweeping grandeur in one breath and individual piercing heartbreak in the next.
From murder mysteries to secret court politics, from long-running rebellions to an unrequited-requited-unrequited romantic mess, from 'your mum' jokes to a reference to that weird 'S' we all drew as kids, this book has everything. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
This may be one of my favorite series ever. It is ridiculous, complicated, touching, and irreverent. And the audiobook version read by Moria Quirk is easily one of the very best narrations I have ever had the pleasure to listen to.
Genuinely the best book series I have ever read. Cannot recommend enough. It's genre bending, insane, witty, deeply queer, and a fun read. You will be confused at first reading it, but that's all apart of the fun.
DNF - I just can’t do this anymore! I’m so confused and the complete befuddlement has led to boredom and I cannot keep going with this any longer. I really really wish I liked it 😭