lunabee34

Don't spoil me, but does Harrow the Ninth live up how awesome Gideon the Ninth is?

IMHO: an enthusiastic YES.

I now want to reread Gideon (not least because I am EVEN MORE CONFUSED about various mysteries, in a happy way), but I think I liked Harrow the Ninth even more -- it's the opposite of the common slightly awkward/weaker second-book-in-a-trilogy.

It builds on Gideon the Ninth to do some wild and pyrotechnic stuff with structure, and as lightreads commented, it deploys a bunch of fannish modes of storytelling in a fascinating way.