Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
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lightreadsGideon the Ninth
4/5. That lesbian necromancers science-fantasy goth (also gothic, but mostly goth) comedy that everyone else and their mother has already read, so I won't bother describing it any further.
Hilarious and horrifying. It would be impossible for this book to live up to the full year of hype it has received, but it comes pretty close. A lot of reviewers have said that this book speaks to the secret teenaged goth in their soul. I do not have a teenaged goth in my soul. I have a teenaged overscheduled and overcommitted straight A student in my soul. But this spoke to me anyway, mostly by way of the enemies-to-friendsish-to-spoilers arc. There's this scene in a swimming pool that – yeah, it was good for me.
There have also been complaints about the ending, which I understand, but I also think are resulting from a sort of mechanical application of reading lenses. I mean, yeah, object to dead lesbians, but when it is so staggeringly obvious that there is going to be some form of substantial take-bacsies on that, I don't think it's particularly useful.
Also, yes, the author is from fandom. Obviously.
4/5. That lesbian necromancers science-fantasy goth (also gothic, but mostly goth) comedy that everyone else and their mother has already read, so I won't bother describing it any further.
Hilarious and horrifying. It would be impossible for this book to live up to the full year of hype it has received, but it comes pretty close. A lot of reviewers have said that this book speaks to the secret teenaged goth in their soul. I do not have a teenaged goth in my soul. I have a teenaged overscheduled and overcommitted straight A student in my soul. But this spoke to me anyway, mostly by way of the enemies-to-friendsish-to-spoilers arc. There's this scene in a swimming pool that – yeah, it was good for me.
There have also been complaints about the ending, which I understand, but I also think are resulting from a sort of mechanical application of reading lenses. I mean, yeah, object to dead lesbians, but when it is so staggeringly obvious that there is going to be some form of substantial take-bacsies on that, I don't think it's particularly useful.
Also, yes, the author is from fandom. Obviously.