Gideon the Ninth

[lunabee34]

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I really, really liked this book.

The protagonist reminds me a lot of Murderbot (if Murderbot were angrier and more foul-mouthed). I would love to see Gideon and Murderbot interact.

I love the world building; there's a part where Gideon thinks a decoration of human teeth is human and beautiful, and I love all those little touches that make the world she inhabits so alien and strange.

I am very much ready for the next book.



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Wow.

This is so damn good. It's very funny and very emotionally affecting and a very good mystery.

I love how much is left unexplained. I still don't understand exactly what the deal is with the Emperor and what he was in danger from all those years ago. Dying to know who the pretty girl in the tomb is. Really want to understand who or what Gideon is; it's hard not to suspect that the note she found actually refers to her or to an ancestor. Who was her mother, and why did she end up in that air shaft? How did she survive the nerve gas? Cytherea says something toward the end that makes me suspect reincarnation is at play (something like "you all never learn even though we do this over and over again" and the way that Gideon is apparently super badass with a sword despite being told over and over again that she's merely mediocre). What happened to Gideon's body and to Cam? I am not discounting that Gideon will come back in a subsequent book. If she can be reunited with her body, Harrow will find a way.

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

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Well, I loved Murderbot so that's tiding me over for now.

[lunabee34]

Lord do I love Murderbot. And Emma loves Murderbot, too, which makes me happy. I know it is completely stupid and irrational, and I try so hard not to do it, but it gets me when she bounces off something I really love. LOL It's good to have a thing we both unabashedly love.

[princessofgeeks]

I know!!! I was so delighted when the younger Princeling loved Ancillary Justice and we could talk about it.

I have shared a lot of stuff with my boys, going back to HP and LOTR and all the MCU movies. It's so fun.

The last thing I did with one of them was, back in the winter the older boy went with me to Knives Out which was so fun.

[lunabee34]

Emma really liked Knives Out, and that made me happy.

She hasn't attempted the Leckie yet, and I'm kinda afraid she won't like it. It's pretty dense.

[princessofgeeks]

I can rarely predict what books the younger Princeling will like. I was so surprised and delighted that he liked Ancillary Justice since usually he is all about the sword and sorcery.

He loved all the Five Gods books by Bujold, for example, and has been waiting impatiently for more.

But I couldnt' get him interested in the Vorkosigans.

No idea how it works for him. Recently he read Empress of Timbra and really liked it.