I started this book chuckling at the outrageous premise. It’s an incredibly immersive book, with a rich, detailed mythology, gorgeously balanced sentences, and a genuinely meaningful central relationship. Gideon the Ninth turns out to surpass that initial eye-catching blurb. Was Gideon the Ninth going to be one of those all-too-common cases of a book with a fantastic initial setup that failed to execute it well? Would it be well-plotted but with clumsy sentences, or maybe suffocate under the weight of that high-concept premise?īy the time I was 10 pages in, I’d forgotten all about those concerns. I wasn’t entirely sure that any book could live up to that summary. “You have my attention,” I said out loud.īut my attention came with some doubts. So when the book arrived on my desk with that blurb emblazoned on the cover, I had the same reaction any rational human being would have. Gideon the Ninth, the debut novel by Tamsyn Muir, is best summarized by the blurb listed in place of prominence on its front cover: “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!”
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