Harrow the ninth gideon5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Though I also really love the dream team of brains and brawn, Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect (Sixth House, unsurprisingly from their names).īelieve the hype. ![]() My absolute FAV is Magnus the Fifth: dad-joke extraordinaire, 35-year-old-among-teens, happily married to his necromancer academic wife. But the best part is the characters, who are all utterly bonkers in their own wonderful ways. The world is just fantastic, the hints of how this far-future society maps onto our world (each of the planets is a “House” that specializes in a different type of necromancy). It’s light on the lesbian (romance and sex in general isn’t a big element of the story, but teenage crushes are present) but very heavy on the necromancy. ![]() Gideon may not be the brightest, but she is the best (at least at Dad jokes). It’s a weird and delightful mix of fantasy and sci-fi. The voice is so fresh, so fun, so unique, so very Gideon. She hits things with swords so she’s recruited (unwillingly) to go to a big possibly haunted space castle/research facility with her worst enemy, her planet’s only surviving necromancer (who is into bones). Gideon is not a necromancer (but she is into girls). I’m going to eschew a plot description/blurb here and just say what everyone else has been saying: lesbian necromancers in space. This pandemic period, I did a great thing for my happiness: I read Gideon the Ninth. ![]()
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