And Nona is a sight to behold when angry: Nona can understand every language everyone speaks to her. Nona has to be talked into eating breakfast every morning. Nona thinks she’s the best looking girl around and has an almost impossibly high sense of self worth. Nona is naive and loving and travels through the world with the wonder of a child. Nona had to be taught to walk and talk and dress herself less than half a year ago. Nona? Nona is a blank slate with six months of scribbles. Gideon was a not-terribly book-smart girl surrounded by a bunch of super nerds, while Harrow was a traumatised baby-lyctor suffering from sanity slippage. And the third time that we are reading from the perspective of someone who does not really grasp what is going on around them.

We should be used to Tamsyn Muir making bold choices with regard to her writing, but this is the second time that we have been given a possibly amnesiac protagonist in this series. Six months down the track, Camilla, Palamedes and Pyrrha-who certainly were not together at the end of Harrow-are camping out on a whole new planet looking after… someone? Someone who is inhibiting Harrow’s body. At the end of the last book, the fates of both Gideon and Harrow were left unclear, and much of the supporting cast were scattered. But what I was surprised about was how slow and gentle it was at the start. So I was not surprised that Nona The Ninth also proved to be quite distinct.

The two previous books in the Locked Tomb Trilogy (Series) were quite different from each other. So I didn’t come in with 100% unguarded optimism.īut for the most part, I did enjoy the unexpected book about the unexpected girl. But I have also read a number of other book series where books were split and new entries added-with authors that include George RR Martin, Isabelle Carmody and most recently, Jim Butcher-and it is not always a resounding success. It tickles a spot that almost nothing else reaches. But then just over a year ago, there was the announcement that we were getting an extra entry: the last book had split at the seams, apparently, and we were going to get a book focused on Nona.Įxcept we had not been introduced to a Nona?įor anyone who has read my reviews of the previous two books, you would know that I am an unabashed fan of this series. And when Harrow The Ninth was released, we were all assured it was two down and one to go. Oh look, it’s a surprise book! When I first picked up Gideon the Ninth a few years back, it was advertised as being part one of a trilogy. Mild spoilers for the series in the review, more pressing ones have had the whiteout treatment.

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