A review by book_club_cat
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Wtf did I just read!?!? I had no idea what was going on half the time and somehow in the last third of the book everything fell together in an implosion of plot twists.  I think Muir is some kind of genius to write something so bizarre and dark yet funny and lovable all at the same time.  I have never read anything like Gideon the Ninth or Harrow the Ninth and I still am at a loss on how I’m supposed to comprehend all that I just read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide, Murder, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Cancer, Blood, Abortion, and Abandonment

Wtf did I just read!?!? I had no idea what was going on half the time and somehow in the last third of the book everything fell together in an implosion of plot twists. I think Muir is some kind of genius to write something so bizarre and dark yet funny and lovable all at the same time. I have never read anything like Gideon the Ninth or Harrow the Ninth and I still am at a loss on how I’m supposed to comprehend all that I just read!