A review by aimiller
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Okay so: I'm glad I waited a little bit to read this so I could talk about it with people who had already read it. Without that, I really might have just gotten mad and carried that with me throughout the book. It really doesn't give any ground in letting you understand for the good part of the beginning, and does so intentionally

and frankly by the end I'm also not sure I know what's going on, but in a better way I think? That makes me excited for the third book, rather than just going "I don't get what is happening."

There are still things that make me wince; I have no idea how you approach this book if you were not on tumblr in 2012, and maybe if I wasn't there the immense number of now extremely old memes would not make me yell "oh come ON" every time, but woof. 

BUT, my little complaints aside, I did enjoy this I think even more than I did <em>Gideon the Ninth</em>; I loved all the mentor characters (Mercymorn for president because she mirrors exactly how I feel when I see most undergrads now,) and I loved seeing how these immortals are just broken people who really have no place to try to mentor anyone. Again, I found a lot of it confusing, but I think it was still okay, and I am definitely excited to get my hands on the next book when it comes out!